Ready (to Screw Up) On Day One.
"Several top Clinton strategists and fundraisers became alarmed after learning of the state's unusual provisions during a closed-door strategy meeting this month, according to one person who attended. What Clinton aides discovered is that in certain targeted districts, such as Democratic state Sen. Juan Hinojosa's heavily Hispanic Senate district in the Rio Grande Valley, Clinton could win an overwhelming majority of votes but gain only a small edge in delegates." The Clinton campaign "discovers" the long-standing Texas primary rules this month. I mean, why bother to learn the state rules before running for president (or before making Texas the last-ditch firewall)? As a TPM commenter deadpanned, Sen. Clinton must have just presumed she'd be greeted as a liberator.
What are they paying Mark Penn $4.3 million for again? Did their Texas strategy encompass anything beyond kids in mariachi outfits? This is rank incompetence, and no way to run a presidential campaign...or a country.
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Clinton's advisors had no idea that the campaign would last past February 5.
Hey, I just volunteered to be Precinct Chair for Travis County's "Fightin' 126th"! I think there's already someone holding it, but we'll see... I'll definitely be a-caucusin' on the 4th, either way...
Christ, if I knew about this almost a week before they did, they are just hopeless. Don't they have an intern they can assign to read liberal blogs? Hell, maybe that's how they eventually found out. It's amazing how little $130 million in campaign cash can buy you these days. At least provided that Mark Penn et al are the ones deciding how to spend it. One of my main reasons for rooting against Clinton is the final discrediting of these incompetent, election-losing stooges.