We Come Not To Praise Caesar...

...but to sift through the ashes and giggle a bit. Tom Maguire covers The Atlantic's autopsy on the Hillary Campaign.

Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel.

We didn't want a manager, but a revolutionary. Tom brings up a good lesson however:

Had Hillary won, perhaps we would be lauding the creative ferment she created by tolerating and encouraging the factional in-fighting, and we would be deriding Barack for, I don't know, having failed to anticipate the extent of his Jeremiah Wright problem. Winners write the history; losers have it written about them.

A harsh lesson, but it doesn't make it any less true. Ask John Edwards, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Al Gore (Nobel Prize or not, he's still inventing internets and feeding unborn children into his private jet's fuel tank) and oh, any other loser wishy washy non-Clinton Dem over the last 20 years.