Sad, really.

Take out the fallacious swipe at MoveOn, and it's even more pathetic on a very fundamental level. Just think about it...

"We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party."

A candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, an honor which carries the corollary position of titular head of the Democratic Party, thinks the key to her lack of success is the participation of the "activist base of the Democratic Party." No wonder down-ticket candidates across the country, who don't raise millions upon millions of dollars and count on an energized base, are nervous about a Hillary Clinton nomination. The last time a Clinton led the Party, we lost the Congress, a bunch of governor's mansions and who knows how many state legislative seats. Would the next time be deja vu all over again?

(Still wonder which way most of those purple state uncommitted Congressmembers are going to throw their convention vote? There's a hint here.)

Of course, just because Hillary says the caucuses were flooded with dirty hippies doesn't mean it's so. In fact, the attendees at precinct caucuses tend to resemble the neighborhoods they're held in. All that record attendance? That doesn't come from the "activist base" of anything. If the Party's activist base was present at my own caucus, it would have been the four of us, out of 32, that had previously attended a caucus or Party meeting. The other 28? All first timers, folks who had never come out of the house to take a stand for a candidate in their lives (and they'd had chances. Average age was probably 50. No beards or Birkenstocks seen.). Some "activist base," huh?

The 'base' broke 3-1 for Hillary (including yours truly at the time). All those first timers, those brand spanking new Democrats, those middle-aged, working class folks who inhabit the 50 year old cement block tract houses around here? Broke big for Obama.

She doesn’t know who the Obama folks are, just who Mark Penn tells her they are. Heck, she doesn't even know who her own folks are, which is why she's lost some and will lose others.

And you start to get the sense that she just doesn't care about that.

Or you.