i think, as i may have remarked, that a bowl of oatmeal could beat hillary clinton. and, were they both to get nominated - despite the fact that no one has any reason to vote for either - the bowl of oatmeal named jeb bush will beat her. i definitely think biden could (also, and more severely, marco rubio could). i say again there's a 50/50 chance that hillary gets destroyed by scandal before she reaches the convention. unca joe has his drawbacks, however. not as bad as hillary's, though.

so i'd ask you this, progressive people: do you want to compromise all your beliefs in pursuit of victory and lose anyway? because that's how you're polling right now. let mitt romney be a lesson to you. here's what she and huma etc are saying this morning: oh no! people want 'authenticity', 'passion', etc. we don't have the foggiest notion of what that can even mean, but ok: how do we simulate those things? we should focus-group on that.