Posted by
skep41 on Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:41:42 AM
Generically, an
iatrogenic disorder
is any pathological anomaly in which the dysfunctional symptoms in the
patient owe their cause to the actions of the practitioner.
Team
Clinton is out in force trying to undo some of the damage that Her
Thighness did to herself with her Nixonian performance last Tuesday.
The script of the Spin Doctors is clear; dont talk about the content of
the questions, attack the questioner and the format as not being fair.
There is a huge problem with that strategy. With an entire year of
campaigning to go the "its not fair to little ol' Hilly Girl" gambit is
only going to have a very limited resonance, as can be seen by the
reaction to its first use this time, and will be less and less
effective the more its used. Attacking the questioner is another tactic
that might be effective once or twice but again in the big picture it
is an annoying reminder of all the unanswered questions from the eight
years of BJ's reign as Mayor Of the Palace and the atmosphere of
conflict that plagued the administration of the Worst President of the
20th Century. The Spin Machine is like a General fighting the last war.
The tactics they honed to perfection protecting their incumbency are
damaging their candidacy. Going to Wellsley and surrounding herself
with shrieking co-eds denouncing how mean the spineless wimps that
shared the stage with her were only whets the appetite of the 99.9% of
the public who were watching 'Dancing With The Stars' instead of some
boring political debate. Hillary got spanked by five guys? A political
gang-bang!? Now THAT'S interesting and draws attention to her screwing
up. All the screaming and counterattacks in the world cant undo the
damage she did to herself, it will only make it worse and apparently
the whole team of Spin Doctors doesnt even understand why her answers
were so damaging.
The main problem with Clinton's answers was not
how she equivocated and backed and filled, although that was bad
enough, it was with the answers themselves. Apparently she expects to
run as an experienced White House player without releasing the records
of what she did to get that experience. We all know why; her experience
consists of Bimbo Eruptions, illegal fundraising, the cruel and unjust
Travel Office firings and several lame and misguided attempts to
nationalize the health care industry, one of which resulted in the
crippling of the vaccine industry. The other bad answer was trying to
mask her total and enthusiastic support for illegal alien amnesty and
voter fraud, a VERY unpopular position but one shared by every other
candidate on the stage, including that opportunistic half-wit Dodd who
apparently thought raising his hand overcomes his many yes votes on
amnesty.
Her alleged opponents in the Democratic Primaries are
trying to make her manner, not her answers, the issue but I doubt the
Republicans will be so circumspect. This is a flawed, extremely
vulnerable candidate.