Snark of the Day: Patterico

The bottom line is that while the Clinton “machine” has run a “machine” campaign — raising gobs of money and putting pressure combined with treats to generate support from party insiders — Hillary Clinton is an unlikeable person and a

Jason Zengerle,  from that stalwart bastion of right wing thought the New Republic, nails Mrs. Clinton for her doublespeak:

From today’s NYT article about Hillary’s struggles in Iowa, this is a bit of a damning admission from the candidate,

The New York Times , via Memeorandum, reports that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is looking for dirt on Barack Obama.

If there was any question whether Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign was concerned about the rise of Senator Barack Obama,

I mentioned, the other day, about how the NBC lawyer who rejected that “thank you to the troops” video, turns out to be rather generous source of donations for congressional Democrats.  Here’s the article I wanted to link to edit

Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah, guesting over at Right Wing News:

One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on

John Hawkins over at  Right Wing News  has an interview posted with Fred Thompson’s campaign manager Bill Lacy.  An error on my part had this on my ticker for next year. My bad. Sorry, John.

It’s clear by what Lacy

Boortz;

Would some Rudy Giuliani supporter, or perhaps a campaign staffer, please write and explain to us the value of a home mortgage interest deduction to someone who does not pay income taxes.

Simple question … someone should have an

Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

Seanna Adcox accuses Mrs. Cliuton’s campaign, in effect, of lying:

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s support from South Carolina’s black religious leaders may not be quite as extensive as her campaign suggests.

Mean

WaPo:

The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan formally indicted one-time Hillary Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu today, laying out what prosecutors described as a “massive fraud scheme” that allegedly left investors in Hsu’s fictitious clothing businesses taken to the tune of $20

Is Mrs. Clinton’s campaign merely spinning, or spinning our out control.   Listen to Mrs. Clinton’s  pollster Mark Penn, video.   Penn’s attempted attack on Barack Obama, does not demonstrate Obama’s weaknesses, so much as it highlights Mrs. Clinton’s.  

Mrs. Clinton’s

Captain Ed:

Recall the pushback when we linked to the Zogby poll that showed Hillary’s support eroding at the end of November? The numbers showed Hillary losing ground against all Republican contenders, and had some correlation with Rasmussen’s numbers as

I’m not so sure about this one.  Ron Christie says it’s the beginning of the end for Hillary Clinton and her dreams of being president.

To be honest, I never thought in the first few days of December I would

David Freddoso at The Corner:

Look, we can blame CNN all we want. But there’s more to the sad fact that Democratic campaign and Party plants asked 11 of the questions in the last two debates, as though they were

ABC News’ Eloise Harper reports:

A day after dealing with a hostage crisis, Sen. Hillary Clinton faced a tough crowd in Iowa. Clinton did not receive the warmest of welcomes at the Heartland Form in Des Moines, IA, and although