How not to win the presidency

Sheesh. Maybe a Clinton-McCain matchup in 2008 would be a perfect pairing. They both appear to be aggressively pursuing the nomination-- by refusing to take a firm stance on anything. As I've mentioned before, the progressive blogs appear to be apathetic to a run by Senator Clinton. This nugget demonstrates why:

WASHINGTON Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is standing more clearly than ever in the middle ground on the Iraq War and taking some sharp fire from the antiwar left for doing so.

In the past two weeks, the New York senator and prospective Democratic presidential candidate who voted to authorize the war in October 2002 has made it clear that she won't join the rush to set a quick timetable for withdrawing American troops.

"I disagree with those who believe we should pull out, and I disagree with those who believe we should stay without end," she told an audience in Chicago on Saturday - after authorities dragged away a few noisy antiwar protesters who tried to disrupt her speech.

Someone hasn't been paying attention to the lessons of Gore and Kerry. The GOP has made much of attacking the 'resolve' of Democrats in the last few years, and it's pretty much become the default opinion of the mainstream media. Particularly on defense and security, most Dems are yoked with this stereotype from day one. Hillary's just providing grist for the right-wing spin machine with statements like this one, which immediately recall the (unfair) but effective attack on John "I was for it before I was against it" Kerry.

Just as inexplicable is her decision to co-sponsor a flag burning law, perrennial favorite of Republicans attempting to fire up their base.