Three Roads Blog

I’M BITTER. I’m bitter about the bitter flap. Bitter that Hillary has made such a big deal about it. Bitter that she’s given John McCain a prefabricated, Hillary-approved bludgeon for the general election.

And I’m confused. If it were still a competitive race, I could understand it a little easier—the Clintons, after all, are ruthless competitors, and we can credit their ruthlessness for ending Republican hegemony in 1992. But this race is pretty much sown up (any scenario in which she wins would surely be Pyhrric for the party), making it clear that Hillary’s will to power is so strong that she’s willing to take everyone down with her.

This isn’t winning at all costs. It’s losing at all costs.

[Update: Frank Rich coins the perfect term for Hillary's against-all-logic drive toward the nomination: "kamikaze narcissism."]