Howard Wolfson Says The Darndest Things

And I was just thinking to myself, "man, it's been too long since I've heard something inflammatory and outrageous come out of Howard Wolfson." It appears that as Captain of the Moron Squad, the former Clinton flack has taken it upon himself to craft yet another excuse for running a losing campaign. He speculates that had the media outed Edwards in the winter of 2007, his disenfranchised supporters would have flocked to Hillary.

"Our voters and Edwards' voters were the same people. They were older, pro-union. Not all, but maybe two-thirds of them would have been for us and we would have barely beaten Obama.""

What luck that Iowa is virtually the only state where we don't have to speculate. Because of the nature of the caucusing system, with its viability requirements and multiple tallies, the polling done in the state prior to the Jan. 3 caucuses asked respondents, "if your candidate fails to meet the viability threshold, who is your second choice?" Drum roll please:

A Post-ABC poll in July put Obama ahead 32 to 30 in as an alternate pick. By November it was 43 to 26 in Obama's favor, but by December, Hillary had narrowed it down to seven, 37 to 30. On the night of the caucus, 43% of Edward's voters described Obama as their second pick, followed by the 24% who selected Clinton.

All the available data directly conflicts with the account that Wolfson is proffering, but just because he's saying it doesn't mean he believes it. This is just one more attempt to insult Obama, another way to rouse the Hillary base. Get them angry at a media that protected Edwards, and they become angry at a media that "favors" Obama. Whether this is groundwork for Clinton '12 in case Obama tanks, or simply unbridled, malicious revenge, is unclear. Either way, he's one cold bastard.