May I please lose? Thank you

The only entity with a worse sense of strategy and less vocation for political victory than the hapless Democratic Party is, by all evidence, the Democratic voter. You can almost see the Republicans salivate at another chance to run against Bill Clinton. Hey, that got them into the White House in 2000, why shouldn’t it work again?

I say Bill rather than Hillary C because as her campaign bumbled past Iowa into near-oblivion, his profile has constantly increased to the point where it is now not at all clear exactly who is running for president on that family ticket. Bill was key to the Nevada triumph and will be all over South Carolina in the next week doing that faux-sincere thing that he pulls off convincingly and she doesn’t.

Is it really an advance for women that the first female presidential candidate has to be pushed nearly off the stage in favor of her husband? And we make fun of the feudal, family-based politics of Pakistan or Sri Lanka.

Another round of the tired Clintons and their bankrupt, middle-of-the-road, pander-to-everyone approach to politics—how crashingly tedious. I’m all for respecting one’s elders, but political leaders should have a whiff of freshness about them, especially when the country’s problems are as serious as ours and the old formulas so obviously dysfunctional.

The fact that young people have turned out for Obama, despite his serious limitations, while the Clintons win among the blue-haired, should be enough to tell us that this race is as creaky as great-granddad’s knees. Too bad the nation’s Democrats don’t seem to have much youthful bounce in theirs.