What she said

On the Confluence a couple of days ago, a reader-commenter named Janis contributed a remarkably insightful message, which I would like to preserve here. She skewers...

...this preposterous charge, constantly repeated, that Hillary’s primary campaign was a total shambles, a complete disaster, and that Obama out maneuvered her with his “brilliant” scorched-earth attack campaign.

That attack campaign is what’s dooming him now, you stupid fucking Obots. There is a reason that primaries are historically softball — and must be. If you come out guns blazing in the primaries, you lose the general. More to the point, your party loses the general. A scorched-earth PRIMARY campaign leaves half the dead bodies on the field wearing your uniform.

Obama’s campaign was “brilliant?” Hillary “didn’t fight back hard enough?” Okay, let’s accept that. Obama fought like a cornered weasel against Hillary Clinton. Where does ti get him and his party now? The bots were always guilty of forgetting that there were two elections to be won. They sunk everything they had into the primary, and forgot about the general. Their candidate came out in full-on attack mode against his own party members, while playing softball with the other guys, expressing admiration for them, practically fellating Reagan’s dead body. Did he forget who wore what uniform? Did his brainless, koolaid-addled, foamy-mouthed followers?

Hillary’s campaign didn’t hit back hard because, if she had, she would have been in precisely the position that Obama’s in now … with the other side going after her gunz blazing, and half her own voters abandoning her. She lost, but there is a reason that primary campaigns are waged the way she waged them. Unfortunately, she was up against a stupid, out-of-control neophyte who decided that he was going to win the less important election at the cost of the most important one by deliberately immolating half his party.

I would add this: The bots sunk everything they had into the primary because the only enemy they cared about ran in the primary. I think the Kossacks subconsciously favor McCain. I favor him too (by default -- he's the only thing standing between Barack Obama and the White House), but the difference is in this: I am aware of what I'm doing. Deep down in the hidden regions of the mind, lefties think that power is in bad taste. They think that the forces of good must ever be on the outside, insulting those within the throne room. Every time progressives see the name "Clinton," they are reminded of a Democrat who succeeded, who got in, and they cannot freaking stand it.