California Conservative

Eight years ago, Hillary went on a listening tour throughout outstate New York. According to the Hotline, Hillary has now started a bridge-burning tour:

When the press gave Hillary Clinton a chance to downplay her disappointing showing in Iowa, she took the bait. Over and over again.

“Iowa does not have the best track record in determining who the parties nominate. Everybody knows that,” she told reporters after a brief photo-op at a cafe here.

Ouch. Of corrse, everybody also knows the senator’s line would be different had she won last night. Instead, she echoed her spinmeisters in trying to suggest the momentum Obama gained from Iowa would not be a great threat.

“New Hampshire is famously independent. It is a place where people want to make up their own minds. They’re not interested in what anybody else has decided. They want to, you know, look us up and down and make that judgment,” she said.

And later: “This is a new day. This is a new state. This is a primary election where, you know, you’re not disenfranchised if you work at night. You know, you actually can come out and vote. You’re not disenfranchised if you’re not in the state. You can actually send in an absentee ballot. So this is going to be a much more representative electorate, because we’ve got people who are going to be able to express their opinion in the way that we run elections in America and I welcome that.”

WOW!!! Talk about taking her shots at Iowa. If she gets the nomination, she’d better hope that Iowa stands between here and the presidency. If it comes down to that, she’ll still be known as Sen. Clinton.

Saying that “Iowa does not have the best track record” in picking presidents is a slap in the faces of Iowa’s activists. That won’t endear Hillary to them should she be the Democratic Pary’s nominee.

Her saying that New Hampshire voters “want to make up their own minds” is another slap in Iowa activists’ faces. At a time when Hillary needs to be building bridges, she’s more intent on burning them. That’s just more proof that she doesn’t have Bill’s political skills.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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