PREMATURE DESTRUCTION

Watching the press tear into Governor Christie just because he is a mindlessly vicious political thug of the first water is kind of interesting. It looks like all the adult strategists (both of them) have retired from the Democratic Public Policy War Machine  er, national press corps. I wouldn't be surprised if the Director of Communications for the Hillary campaign isn't telling them what to say and do but she really needs to up her game if she wants to win.

They need to study Obama's play book and double check the rules for political destruction. You wait until it is too late for the other party to find a replacement nominee before you get court records unsealed and turned over to the press and let them destroy your enemy. You want to keep all the dirt you know about your likeliest and least able enemy hidden in your vaults until it is time to spring out of the darkness waving a subpoena and shouting EUREKA! You conspire with that enemy to sabotage all the other people running against him.

What the republicans really need is a toe tapping, wide-stanced, nuanced, ethically challenged man with a housemaid as a mistress to run for president. If he could be a closet gay of the gay bashing variety and a deep cover agent for the KGB that would be nice. It wouldn't hurt his chances if there was video of him in a drug fueled rage or shooting up smack with Janis. That way we could all be shocked, shocked I tell you, on November 1st a few years hence.