Andrew Sullivan, the go-to stop for all things anti-Hillary Clinton, links approvingly to this Dick Morris column stating the reason Hillary Clinton's lead has crumbled is that she doesn't know how to campaign and has never really had to, since Rick Lazio was a replacement candidate in 2000.
Now I know Sullivan likes Clinton even less than I do, but he should know better than to link approvingly to Dick Morris. Because ... as if. Morris ignores the fact that Senator Clinton played a prominent role in her husband's two (successful) national campaigns, and his 67 statewide campaigns (or however many it was), and she has been elected to the US Senate twice. And that first Senate race was far from a given, and Lazio was far from a pathetic opponent (and he raised about has much money as she did - a massive $40 million). Are her poll numbers sliding at the moment? Sure, but it's not because she doesn't know how to campaign. But if Morris had to go into why her message isn't selling that well ... well then maybe he'd have to write the kind of column that FoxNews wouldn't want to run.
Posted by armand at December 17, 2007 09:07 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics