Can See It Coming From A Mile Off

Hillary Clinton in Nigeria today said the following:

"Our democracy is still evolving.... We had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections... .In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state. So we have our problems too,'' the Democrat said at a town hall meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, which has its own electoral problems.

The secretary's suggestion that the disputed 537-vote margin in Florida in 2000 and the 36-day court battle over flawed ballots that landed in the U.S. Supreme Court had something to do with then-Gov. Jeb Bush has raised the hackles of at least one commentator today: Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC news-talk-show host who was a Republican congressman from Pensacola during that election battle.

The idea that Jeb Bush "rigged'' the election is "an unfair slanderous assessment,'' Scarborough complained on air today.

Not very diplomatic, frankly. One could categorize it as a rather serious gaffe.

Still, the question is how quickly will the Wingers scream that the Florida election in 2000 is the new "Democrat Birther Movement", thus absolving the Wingers of all wrongdoing, oh and Hillary should immediately resign.

I give it before the end of the day. Watch.