Guess Who’s Really Bitter: Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton must think wistfully of her days as frontrunner like I remember paying $1.90 for gas and complaining about it. Those days are long gone and everyone knows it…and, Hillary, a single shot of whiskey won’t take away the pain.

As I’ve watched Hillary flail around during the Pennsylvania primary race trying to ruin Barrack Obama’s rep among the electorate, I can’t help but think that we’ve truly reached the end of both her and her husband’s legacy. Between the two of them over the last couple months, they both need to go. I’m a long-time Bill Clinton supporter, but as a TV commentator said the other night, watching Bill Clinton stumble around the stage on the campaign trail is like watching an aging boxer get back in the ring.

Now how bitter is Hillary? Very. Just watch how she talks and what she’s been talking about. Anyone who takes time in a presidential debate to chide questioners about how she always gets the first question is bitter. Clinton is bitter about her campaign the way the Worst President Ever, George W. Bush, looks back at his idiocy of a presidency and puzzles at how it all turned out this way.

So Hillary channeled her bitterness into her campaign and she, along with her husband, basically became mini-Karl Roves out there on the campaign trail in the hopes she could bring down Obama. We’ll see as the returns come in whether her efforts to sling some mud had her desired effect.

As we await the Pennsylvania returns tonight, Hillary Clinton is also bitter about the fact that despite all her fight and all her conniving, she won’t be any closer to winning the nomination after tonight. And yet, despite all that, Hillary will claim victory and again use the most tired trick in her book: claim that since she won the Democratic Primary, Obama can’t win in the general election. It shockingly looks like, in exit polls taken by CBS today, 25% of Clinton’s supporters voting today claim they would vote for McCain over Obama, but that hardly signals any likelihood of McCain winning there–especially after these petulant voters come to their friggin’ senses.