James Fallows reports:
In a live CNN interview just now, Sen. Clinton repeated, twice, the "Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience, I have a lifetime of experience, Sen. Obama has one speech in 2002" line. By what logic, exactly, does a member of the Democratic party include the "Sen. McCain has a lifetime of experience" part of that sentence?
By the same logic, one supposes, that leads a presidential candidate from one party to cut commercials for a candidate of the opposing party. I'm willing to be corrected on this point, but I doubt there is another instance in postwar American history of a candidate literally endorsing the nominee of the other party against his or her intra-party opponent. (John Anderson never supported Carter; George Wallace never supported Nixon.) Hillary Clinton's priorities are now unambiguous. She will do anything legally within her power to win the Democratic nomination, including destroying the most promising natural politician her party has seen in some 40 years. If she fails, she wants to make certain that Obama is too toxic ever to run again.
The irony is that the path she is paving to the nomination, even if it is the best way to optimize a still long shot, all but guarantees a McCain victory in the fall. She will lose to him deservedly.
UPDATE: Hillary Clinton repeated her endorsement of McCain in three separate appearances yesterday. John Aravosis has video.