More intra-Clinton feuding, and what it means
Back in February, we noticed the first major eruption of "insider trading" of information by Clinton campaign staff at Hillary's expense -- when a sizeable minority of Clinton's staff, alarmed by Hillary's dropping poll numbers, violently disagreed with the hawkish course agreed upon by Hillary Clinton and Mark Penn. The dissident minority's decision to go public with the disagreement was a way of ratcheting up pressure on the Clinton campaign.
Just as insider trading of stock options strongly suggests a bad earnings report, so too did these insider leaks from Hillary's once leak-proof campaign have ominous implications for her fundraising and internal polling numbers which were eventually borne out.
For what it's worth, a NYPost story affirms that the feuding within the Clinton camp has not abated. Despite Hillary's calculated leveraging of Bill's fundraising prowess, the New York-based faction of Clinton's campaign - as opposed to the Mark Penn-led DC "masterminds" - is obviously not enthused with the way things are going.
"Her New York crew is fighting like hell with her D.C. folks, and it's worse than the normal stuff, real serious tensions," said a Democratic Party source. "The New York folks are the ones who got her elected to begin with. They've done it and know what to do. The D.C. folks are the 'geniuses' who do 'national elections' and think everyone here is a rube.
"The Washington types hold meeting after meeting and then send a group of fatheaded 27-year-olds to do events in New York, and they wind up fighting with her staff here," continued the source, who is in day-to-day contact with party activities.
The source said the tensions exploded at Clinton's endorsement event with Gov. Spitzer and other high-ranking Democrats earlier in the month at the Capitol. "The New York locals were incensed that so many of these outsider kids were sent in from Washington and they were trying to run the event and they couldn't even make a contribution to it." [that simply smacks of Mark Penn right there]
Meanwhile, the source said many New York Democrats believe Clinton "isn't doing so well out there, that she may not have what it takes to become president.
"When you're out talking to real Democrats in the field, you hear them say, 'She has no pulse. Just polls.' Did you see how she voted on the Iraq resolution? . . . She waited to see how [Barack] Obama voted before she did. So calculated even on such a core issue," the source said.
I always take anonymous sources with plenty of salt, but if the details are that specific, it's usually true, because it would be too easy to refute the story if it actually was a lie.
So if this is legit, and a lot of Clintonite New Yorkers are wavering, ... that's very, very bad news for Hillary.
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