It's Actually Very Easy to Explain

why Hillary Clinton is fighting for her political life this campaign season.

The whole primary campaign has been the result of a monumental screw-up by the DNC and other hacks in the party.

You see, with John Kerry's "defeat" in 2004, the path was cleared for a Clinton candidacy, something that has been in the works since her husband left office. The hacks, either nostalgic for a return of the Clinton years or having a desire to stick it to the Bushes, decided it was "her turn" to run for the White House. Nothing was going to stop this, despite the fact many years of GOP and media trashing made the possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency tough at best, remote-to-non-existent at worst. Besides, it was clear the voting public was never going to buy the inherent conflict-of-interest (which all too many Clinton supporters call "sexism" for even mentioning it) of a wife of a term-limited former president running for what would amount to a third Clinton term.

So early on Clinton racked up the support of most of the party hacks around the country, raised shitpiles of money, and was way ahead in the polls thanks in large part to name recognition.

The one real challenger she had early on was John Edwards. Much supported by the party's base, he was the real threat to Clinton's "inevitable" campaign. The hacks were worried, the media was worried, business interests were worried because his economic populism posed a threat to the status quo and jeopardized the Democrats' donor base. He had to go despite setting the Democratic agenda, despite his obvious electability as president. The other qualified candidates, Dodd, Richardson, and Biden, were marginalized very early on and were seen as auditioning for the VP spot.

So, in order to stop Edwards, the hacks, with a big help from the likes of Oprah, pressured an inexperienced, laughably uniformed, and obviously tainted Barack Obama to jump into the race so as to siphon votes from John Edwards. He, not Edwards, was seen as the anti-Clinton, but he wasn't actually going to be taken seriously as a real challenger to Clinton. Well, the hacks succeed in forcing John Edwards out because they were afraid of a brokered convention, but little did they realize they created a Frankenstein in Obama. They had no idea his campaign would "take off" the way it did, thanks to media manipulation. It was pretty clear early on that Obama, not Clinton, would be the easiest for the GOP nominee to beat, so we witnessed a huge shift in coverage away from Clinton to Obama. His persona is a complete mirage, but his campaign was successfully marketed as "hope" for "change."

While I am reluctant to invoke Karl Rove's name in everything having to do with ratfucking the Democrats, I believe he was deeply involved in the strategy to get Republicans involved in the crossover states once it appeared John McCain would be the GOP's presidential nominee. Just why states even allow for crossover voting knowing it would be abused by those with the desire of messing up Democrats' chances of winning the White House is a mystery. But in any case, they have had a big hand in screwing it up for the Democratic Party, and now the party is in danger of having a turkey on its hands.

That coupled with the constant tearing down of Clinton by the media, once Edwards was dispensed with, has come close to wrecking her chances.

Of course, she could still rebound to win, and I hope she does. But it's going to be a very tough row to hoe.