HRC has fired her chief strategist and pollster, Mark Penn. This is this guy who thought the best place to be on Potomac Tuesday eve was doing a book reading in New York City. He may not be TSFGOTFOTE, but he’s on the podium.
The question is, has he been sacked too late? Had he been catapulted into a swamp after the Super Tuesday split, somebody with a little more sense might have put together an actual plan to close the deal down the stretch. Instead, Team HRC lost eleven straight contests and gave away the perception of inevitability – and then the perception of being the lead horse. Once people accept you’re in second place, you can’t get back to first just by saying you are over and over.
Meanwhile, I can’t believe that the clowns I saw stacked fifty-deep in Punxsutawney are going to be decisive in determining who the Democratic candidate is. Somewhere on that great sideline in the sky, Coach Radi is laughing his ass off.