Some great lines by Rich Lowry today that ring true.
Hillary is on the path to victory...
Clinton won women and lost men, but 57 percent of voters were women. The most important number is that Clinton won Democrats by 11 points, while Obama won independents. Winning members of your own party never stirs the imagination of the media; it's merely the path to a presidential nomination.
and Obama can't hide forever.
Ultimately, the problem for Obama is that he is promising something that is impossible -- a harmonic convergence of the country around what, at bottom, is an utterly conventional liberal policy agenda.
For now, voters have hit "pause" on the Obama movement. They are going to examine their choices more closely before sweeping a not-yet-one-term senator with no real substantive accomplishments into the White House on a wave of emotion. For those who expect a certain sobriety of the American electorate, it's cause for hope.
Hillary is going to win. I don't like it -- my face contorts involuntarily every time I hear her voice -- but I don't see how it will be otherwise.
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It's funny that Lowry sees Hilary's victory as some sort of second-look at Obama and finds solace in the Democrats respect for experience. Hilary has only 4 more years of experience in the senate and if you compare his time in the state legislature he has more elective experience than she does.
The guys with real experience (and thus baggage) Dodd, Biden, etc. made a quick exit.
What makes Obama so electable is his lack of experience. A long record of liberal accomplishment is a ticket to nowhere-ville on the national stage. No accomplishments give the electorate hope that he's not a bolshevik
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