I got news for Hillary and the Democratic Party in general, if indeed this is her strategy:

Her goal is to defeat Obama by destroying him in the next month or two, not by making a positive argument about herself. And if she cannot destroy him this time, and he gets the nomination, she will have so anathematized him with a segment of voters that McCain will beat him, and she gets to say “told you so” and run again in 2012.

Tell you what - if this is the way she’s going to play it, I wouldn’t vote for her in 2008, I wouldn’t vote for her in 2012, I would vote for at any time, ever.

You don’t “destroy” opponents in an interparty battle unless you are ceaseless narcissist. The past few days have proven that Clinton would destroy the Democratic Party itself if it got her elected. And I’ll say it again: If I want right-wing tactics, if I want the right-wing mentality, I’ll just vote for the right-wing candidate. It’s one thing to fight fire with fire, as the Clintons did in the ’90s; it’s another thing entirely to whip out the flamethrower and burn down your own freaking house.