A while back, we pondered posting about an issue that's, well, none of our damn business, a cheap shot, a headline grabber -- even though we didn't mean it in those ways. We were thinking about on the one hand what kind of stress the campaign must put on the Clinton marriage and, on the other, the stress the Clinton marriage has put on the campaign. Too much Bill.
So we are interested to note that Marc Ambinder is looking at Hillary's future and raising the issue in a new way.
... A large number of staffers appear to be willing to quit en masse next Wednesday if there’s a split decision and Clinton gives notice that she intends to fight for another month.
And what of Clinton herself? To borrow my favorite Christian heresy metaphor, many in the political world are Manicheans when it comes to her motives. Either she is entirely evil and devious or she is totally pure and misunderstand. Her actions to date suggest that she is more aware of her surroundings that people give her credit for. She does not seem to want to hurt the party; she does not want to jeopardize Obama in November -- yes, yes, I know, 2012 and all that, but she also knows that the truth is, her political career would not be over if she were to concede the nomination gracefully, only that part of it that has depended, for better or worse, on her husband.
Whatever happens to the Clintons as a team, we're talking about Hillary standing on her own two feet, running as her own person. Hillary is going to suffer until she stops being a Bill-dependent, gender-specific candidate. Then even we Obama-supporters who aren't fond of Hillary might see her as a viable candidate, not an (oh! gasp!) "woman president."
In another respect, we don't have to worry about the Clintons' future, according to this link courtesy of Andrew Sullivan.
