Reply #8: She has made herself the icon of the "give us pablum" wing of the party.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

The one that her husband championed in his campaigns and presidency. She is the last great hope of the discredited "Third Way", "not as bas as the Republicans", "don't rock the boat", not "too liberal", diehards who steered the party into a pale imitation of the Republicans.

She exemplifies politics at it's self-serving smarmiest where winning office supersedes common decency and plays to the lowest common denominator of fear.

She has cast her opponent in the role of a radical, an angry black man, a threat to the white working class, a weakling who will bow to the bogeyman of the day.

She is continuing to campaign, not in defense of principle, but in defense of no-principles.