Sadly, it is purely Netroot fantasy to believe that Senator Clinton is unelectable.
With all her negatives, she now either bests or is in the margin of error of besting any GOP candidate.
And she has been defined, repeatedly, which explains her negatives.
The neophyte Senator Obama, for all his fine oratory, will be easily redfined.
The reality is if he were the candidate in a general election campaign, he would be fortunate to carry his home state of Illinois.
Saner minds in the Democratic primaries will prevail. And indeed are prevailing; thus the Senator Clinton lead.
Former Senator Edwards has exceptional conviction and drive, but with Senator Kerry as the other half of the would-be Democratic presidential team in 2004, neither man could really go the distance. And as Donald Trump presciently noted recently, against President GWB, they ought to have easily gone that distance.
Senator Clinton has the experience and is a very seasoned veteran. She has been biding her time. When she has her turn as the Democratic presidential candidate she will both endure and triumph.
Misters Giuliani, McCain, Thompson, and Romney are as nothing besides a decade of Ken Starr inquisition and purely political Impeachment.
The reality is that those rival camdidates will whither away before her. She will triumph in spite of Netrooters and those who have long shared their anti-Clinton venom.
Success brings the new reality. Senator Clinton will follow the only successful Democratic presidential candidate of the past quarter century (indeed the only twice popularly elected Democratic candidate of the past forty years)--her husband Bill--to the White House.
She will then demonstrate the reality of how one governs successfully on both a national and international stage.
We will happily turn a page backward to a far better time, rather than turning a page forward in the hopes that a neophyte like Senator Obama can learn while on the job.
The last time that happened, we found ourselves being led by President Bush 43.
And the reality of his presidency was most sobering indeed.
