Pirate's Cove

And, in doing so, he almost certainly ensures that she will win the Democratic endorsement for 2008. I’ll come back to that.

In a story in the Washington Post Sunday (h/t Powerline dudes), Markos Moulitsas, ie the Daily Kosbat, tells us why Hillary Clinton, well, sucks, and takes some shots at the darling of the Left, Bill Clinton, along the way.

Hillary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear “electable.” But most of all, Hillary has a Bill Clinton problem. (And no, it’s not about that. )

Moving into 2008, Republicans will be fighting to shake off the legacy of the Bush years: the jobless recovery, the foreign misadventures, the nightmarish fiscal mismanagement, the Katrina mess, unimaginable corruption and an imperial presidency with little regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. Every Democratic contender will be offering change, but activists will be demanding the sort of change that can come only from outside the Beltway.

Her big problem, in reality, to the Leftists is that she has not come out and slammed and slurred the Iraq War. She has, for the most part, been mostly rational about the whole thing. Her attacks on Bush, Rumsfeld, et all have been the normal political ones, not the extremely personal and venemous ones by others in the Democratic Party, and she has stayed away from ones that demean the military. Mostly.

The other problem for folks like Kos is that she is working with the Democratic Leadership Council, which the Kosbat Left despises. Kos has even said he would “nuke them.” Never happened, of course.

Kos yammers on regarding netroots, grassroots, and how they helped Dean win, well, nothing, except scorn, during his failed bid for the Dem nomination. Kos forgets that it was the Democrats and the Left leaning media who destroyed Dean after his little scream episode. Quite frankly, I thought the scream showed passion and soul, a connection to the people as not being elitist. But, face it, the Dems love their elitists.

While Republicans spent the past four decades building a vast network of small-dollar donors to fund their operations, Democrats tossed aside their base and fed off million-dollar-plus donations. The disconnect was stark, and ultimately destructive. Clinton’s third way failed miserably. It killed off the Jesse Jackson wing of the Democratic Party and, despite its undivided control of the party apparatus, delivered nothing. Nothing, that is, except the loss of Congress, the perpetuation of the muddled Democratic “message,” a demoralized and moribund party base, and electoral defeats in 2000, 2002 and 2004.

There was nothing new in that, the majority of donars have always been big dollar donators. I haven’t seen Kos dismiss those folks on his blog, nor those who take the money. Will he continue to bash this line as we approach the 2006 and 2008 elections? I’d bet the answer is “no.”

Hillary will not gain the 2008 nomination because of two reasons. First, she hasn’t been feeding the moonbats with raw, bloody meat on a regular basis, nor will she. She understands that in order to gain the regular person vote, she cannot sound like a, well, barking moonbat.

Second, she is a woman, and, despite what the Dems say about equality, they would never trust a woman in the White House. Has anyone seen talk of drafting Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer to run in 2008? I thought not.

Oh, and Bill? Kos states on the first page that he is at fault for Bush winning the WH.

Kos is pretty much batting 0-16 for those he endorses/works for in elections. Meaning, Hils will probably get the 2008 nomination from the Dems. Will Kos throw his support behind her?