I'll bet this cooks his goose and ends his run for president. It was his whining about opposition campaign that killed him in 2000. Now, here he is whining again, disloyally, to boot. He's done.
I think you are right about McCain, thought I don't know just when.
But the case of Ms. Clinton is even stranger, Clinton is talking about the need for a sustained US deployment in Iraq - a policy opposed by around 85% of Democratic voters.
For starters, how does this translate into success in Democratic primaries?
And, in the general election, if voters still perceive the war as going badly they are unlikely to support a canidate who wants to continue it, and if it’s perceived by the public as going much better in the fall of 2008 than today, that helps the Republican nominee, not the Democrat.
So for someone who’s supposed to be a consummate politician, Clinton’s strikes me as a very strange strategy.