So appears to be the sentiment of some Clinton Machinists (in this case, deputy campaign manager Mike Henry) to the good caucusists of Iowa, if Henry’s leaked internal memo is to be taken at face value.

I tend to agree with J-Ger that this is much ado over nothing.  Obviously Hillary! isn’t going to skip Iowa.  She probably could if she wanted to, so inside is her track to the Dem nomination, but she needs, for appearance’s sake, to take the “swatting a fly with a Buick” approach.  The “inevitability strategy” worked to perfection for Mr. Bill in 1996, and wifey will certainly, with an eye on November 2008, seek to take the same avenue to victory.

It is a bit surprising to see in-fighting in Ms. Rodham’s campaign, just the same.  I wouldn’t use the term “stunning,” but the very fact of a leaked internal document guaranteed to generate the kind of buzz the former co-president doesn’t want does tend to bely her long-cultivated iron-fisted dictatrix image.

Which probably means that Mike Henry will shortly be realizing a desire to “spend more time with his family” that he never knew he had.

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Oh, you probably thought that title was referring to Bob “0-for-8″ Shrum’s account of Opie Edward’s insipient homophobia.  Well, you know how…sheltered…life used to be down Mt. Pilot way.

Further this deponent sayeth not, other than to quote the line of the day from John Tabin:

Glenn Reynolds is surprised; he writes that “surely Edwards has been around plenty of gay people in his life.” Come on, Glenn, that’s just a stereotype - not all high-end hair stylists are gay.