Hillary Reanimated, GOP Burning

In any good horror movie it takes more than one attempt. By rule of cinematic law the soul-consuming zombie must spring back to life repeatedly, and spend the final few minutes of the flick chasing you around with an axe sticking out of it's head.

Oh, but there I go, being too mean to Hillary. I've probably inspired a phalanx of old biddies to vote sympathetically in her defense in response to those bloggers. That's what happened in New Hampshire, of course, where the 50 to 60 female demographic raised a stiff middle finger at Chris Matthews and the expectations game.

Not that the breathless media didn't partially deserve it. Everything is so thoroughly overblown during this phase of the game - within moments of their proven failure as electoral prognosticators the goon squad of pundits on MSNBC were falling all over each other to come up with more and greater hyperbole over the stupendousness of Hillary's return.

Why not overdo it the other way?

Meanwhile, the Republican field is incoherent. Twenty percent of all conservatives loathes one of them - Romney, Huckabee, and McCain - whose victory speech was staggeringly awful. It's not that momentum is shifting - it seemly doesn't seem to exist. Fred is on life support, and Rudy's only chance is to stage a bigger come back than - well, the 2004 Red Sox in the World Series, in the ninth inning of game four.

Obama gets a separate post - except to say that his concession speech last night was the best speech in American politics since Reagan at Normandy.