The reason why Hillary Clinton lost

Now that Hillary Clinton has lost, the post-mortems have begun (including this hilarious "it wasn’t me" from Mark Penn). The one thing that most seem to ignore is the pose she adopted on the Iraq war. In my view, the single most important reason why Hillary Clinton lost is Iraq -- not that she voted for the war, but rather that she took on an arrogant, blustering approach towards defending her vote. It was that approach that secured her defeat; the only question was whether it would be Barack Obama or John Edwards who defeated her. Instead of admitting she made a mistake (something that she eventually did, but not until it was too late), Hillary Clinton defended her vote, telling voters who disagreed with it to take a hike in mid-February 2007: “If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from.â€� Translation: if you’re really p...