Over at The New York Observer, former Clinton insider Leon Panetta leaves little unsaid in his pre-postmortem of the Clinton for President campaign:
In an interview with The Observer, Mr. Panetta compared Mrs. Clinton’s top strategist Mark Penn to Karl Rove, suggested that the Clinton campaign had totally underestimated Barack Obama’s appeal, and complained about the overall lack of planning that he said had characterized the former First Lady’s bid to return to the White House.
Mr. Panetta, who served as chief of staff in the White House from July 1994 to January 1997, and who has contributed $2000 to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, complained that Mr. Penn “is a political pollster from the past.”
”I never considered him someone who would run a national campaign for the presidency,” he said.
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Aside from his criticisms of specific people at the top of Mrs. Clinton’s team, he also asserted that the campaign in general had neither created an efficient ground operation nor shown tactical wisdom in its deployment of available resources.
“It seems to me like they rolled the dice on Super Tuesday, thinking that would end it,” he said. “And when it didn’t end it, they didn’t have a plan. And when it came to the caucus states, they did have a plan—which was to ignore them. I think those were serious mistakes.”
Clearly, Panetta’s correct. What’s more interesting, though, is the fact that we’re starting to see former Clinton Administration insiders talk like this. They know it’s over. Does Hillary ?
Well, whether she does or not, she helped put another nail in the coffin with this last night:
As I noted this morning, this was, perhaps, Clinton’s worst moment all night and a comment even dumber than the Xerox remark.
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