hillary and katie dish

Katie Couric interviewed Hillary Clinton last night.

Here's the clip and attached CBS drivel.

An excerpt:
"If it's not you, how disappointed will you be?" Couric asked.
“Well, it will be me,” she said.
But she said she would stand behind any other Democratic nominee, if it came to that. “We're going to have unified party, behind whoever we nominate.”
Clearly, she has considered the possibility she won't be the nominee?
"No, I haven't," Clinton said.

This is interesting. The recurring theme of Hillary making sure everyone knows how tough and confident she is rears its head once more. But what's really something to notice here is the fact that she is playing to her fundamental strength - the perception of inevitability her campaign has been so effective at creating.
I really believe this is the single factor that has launched her poll numbers so high. She has been hovering consistently around 35-40% for weeks now, with about 15 points between her and Obama. Do 40% of Democrats (and an even higher percentage of Americans in general election polls) really favor Clinton? I'm not so sure.
It's no mystery that Clinton has her hard core of supporters. But Ann Lewis can only be cloned at HillaryLabs so many times before things start getting fishy, and I have trouble accepting that her numbers would be the same if desperate-for-a-win Democrats weren't so brainwashed into thinking it must be Hillary.
Here's what's nice about democratic politics and the primary elections system - it musn't be anyone! With the exception of Kucinich, the difference between each candidate's electability (or better yet, defeatability) is marginal, at least at this point.
The responsibility of registered Democrats (and for their part, Republicans) in the primary season is to deliver a candidate for the general election who best represents their views and hopes for the next administration.
Nothing is inevitable - you'd think two bitter and close losses would have taught Dems this lesson.