Hillary's Toxic and Failed Campaign

Hillary lost because her campaign was out of control. 
The Atlantic, alas, has a look at her dismal campaign. Imagine her crew running the country?

The after-battle assessments in the major newspapers and newsweeklies generally agreed on the big picture: the campaign was not prepared for a lengthy fight; it had an insufficient delegate operation; it squandered vast sums of money; and the candidate herself evinced a paralyzing schizophrenia—one day a shots-’n’-beers brawler, the next a Hallmark Channel mom. Through it all, her staff feuded and bickered, while her husband distracted. But as a journalistic exercise, the “campaign obit” is inherently flawed, reflecting the viewpoints of those closest to the press rather than empirical truth.

How did things look on the inside, as they unraveled?

The Clinton Memos
Hillary, Bill Clinton, her aides and diehard supporters (PUMAs) need to be shut down. This isn't about sexism. This is about denial, sabotage.

 

Her supporters have an ad out that's far from Unity. They still think they have 18 million voters who aren't going to vote for Obama.

Most of Hillary's supporters now support Obama, according to a Lifetime survey. The only people out for Hillary now are in denial. 

Penn Advised Hillary to Cast Obama UnAmerican

Update: 8-11. Story is out. 

Update: More at CNN, following on Politico's story. 

No surprise here. 

Looks like there were a lot of unhappy campers on Hillary's team. Politico writes about a forthcoming story from the Atlantic.

Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,” according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic magazine.

The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio: “Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these issues on him? … Won’t a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?”

Atlantic Senior editor Joshua Green writes that major decisions during her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination would be put off for weeks until suddenly Clinton “would erupt, driving her staff to panic and misfire.”

Desperation.

Penn, the presidential campaign’s chief strategist, wrote in a memo to Clinton excerpted in the article: “I cannot imagine American electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

Drama.

Green reports that on Feb. 11, the day that Clinton finally replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with Maggie Williams, Wolfson aide Phil Singer cursed out first Wolfson, then Policy Director and Solis Doyle ally Neera Tanden, yelling: “[Expletive] you and the whole [expletive] cabal” before climbing on a chair, berating the entire staff and leaving.

Solis Doyle is now on the Obama team.