So, Um, This Is Supposed To Help Hillary?

Everyone knows who James Carville is pulling for in the primary, which makes this Boston Globe oped on the day after she didn't get the paper's endorsement look just flat-out dumb.

He recounts the 1992 campaign, entitling it The Comeback Kid. But what it does is recapture every Clinton scandal that hit that month and leave you with the conclusion that losing New Hampshire isn't so bad. One has to wonder if they haven't already conceded New Hampshire. If they haven't, this oped certainly isn't going to help.

Bill Clinton came from nowhere to second in New Hampshire and eventually won the nomination. If Hillary comes from everywhere to lose NH, the press might not be so kind.

It was an incredibly memorable time for me.

That winter in New Hampshire we faced Gennifer Flowers, Stuttering John of "The Howard Stern Show," the death penalty for Ricky Ray Rector, and Colonel Holmes and the draft letter. Remember the "60 Minutes" interview about Gennifer Flowers?

Then came Gennifer Flowers. After a few days, we concluded we could weather the storm. Polls showed that support was eroding, but not quickly. The general consensus was that if we could win New Hampshire or even come in a close second, it'd be a monumental feat. And that was even before they started calling him a draft dodger, before Ricky Ray Rector. In the following weeks, we got hit with negative press from all angles.

It was a personally and politically significant primary. In the face of all that adversity, we managed to win in New Hampshire by losing by 8 points. The press did not care that local boy Tsongas had won the primary; they were fascinated that Clinton came in a relatively close second. Clinton became the "Comeback Kid," and then the first president elected without winning the New Hampshire primary.

Comments

[Frank G]

what's pleasant reminiscences for the Snakehead might not be the same for an America tired of these polarizing ethics-free grifters

[Digger]

"Living in the past never gets you anywhere in the future. Learning from the past does." - Me

His op-ed has nothing to do with learning because it is totally unrelated to the current situation and positions... unless of course he's saying Kucinich is going to come from nowhere and place second!

[Fred Beloit]

Oh God no. He faced Stuttering John? Now here is a hero fit to please Blabbering Boob.