Rudy or Hillary?

The biggest question in the 2008 presidential campaign is which was the most incompetent? Hillary Clinton's or Rudy Giuliani's? Both had big leads in national polls at the end of 2007. Rudy of course did much worse - he never won a single primary while Hillary won a number of big states. However, there was always a big question of whether Rudy was conservative enough to compete for the Republican nomination while Hillary was always the presumptive nominee of the Democrats. Both had disastrous strategies of skipping smaller contests and concentrating on a few big states. Both relied on their past careers rather than focusing on the future. Hillary's campaign theme was particularly fraudulent - she claimed to be ready on "day one" but she proved she was completely unready for the campaign (even though she had been planning for it ever since she and Bill left the White House in 2001). She ran her campaign so incompetently that it is deeply in debt despite raising over $100 million. The newspapers are full of stories of small vendors not being paid by the Clinton campaign while Mark Penn and Mandy Grunwald get millions.

It always seemed to me that Rudy's heart wasn't in this presidential race. He was slow to get in and never seemed as passionate as when he was running for mayor. Hillary however clearly wanted to win badly. She just never imagined that anyone could beat her. It may be sexist and unfair to call her shrill but how else to describe her latest ranting about Barack's malings. She says that in the next debate his "behavior" will be at issue. She sounds like a nagging wife or mother. Who's going to vote for someone like that?