It looks like Mark Penn, Clinton's chief strategist, has offered yet another brilliant justification for Hillary's campaign:
"Senator Obama has in fact never had a serious Republican challenger."
Never mind that Senator Obama is kicking her butt from coast to coast. Never mind that. Hillary has taken on the big, bad GOP machine, so she simply must be a better candidate.
Outsourcing to Chris Orr:
I'm sorry, you mean a challenger like Rick Lazio?The incumbent Republican Senator? The beloved, curmudgeonly longtime House member?The last-minute GOP placeholder after Rudy bowed out, who hasn't won (or run for) office since? Yeah, that was a remarkable upset. Or maybe Penn means, umm--oh you know who I mean, that Yonkers guy in waste management who talked about plastic surgery and "a Chinaman's chance"? Thank goodness Clinton spent tens of millions of dollars running up the score against him and derailing his chances of using the Senate as a springboard to the GOP presidential nomination.
Or do Bob Dole and George H. W. Bush now count as Hillary Clinton victories?
Explain to me what I am missing here:
Obama is beating Clinton by out-campaigning her. (Obama > Clinton)
Clinton claims that she can beat the Republicans by out-campaigning them. (Clinton > GOP)
So: Obama > Clinton > GOP
UPDATE: This is unbelievable. The night before the big Potomac Primaries, and Mark Penn is doing a book reading at a bookshop in NYC. Clinton has already paid the man $4 million. You think he could at least pretend to work for her.
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