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As mentioned this morning, Hillary’s conduct will probably make me vote for McCain if she becomes the nominee after all. I might not agree on many issues with McCain, but I do think he tries to be honest, while she lacks any kind of honour or integrity. If she is elected president, future campaigns will become dirtier than ever before - there has to be a deterrent for her kind of campaigning.

Furthermore, the way she managed her campaign illustrates that she does not have what it takes to be president. With the “Clinton” Brand, name recognition and her fundraising skills, her candidacy should have been a shoe-in. Many people forget that she raised just about as much as Obama in 2007 - he only really started to outperform her in fundraising after winning the Iowa Caucus.

However, she apparently was so convinced that her candidacy was a shoe-in that she did not set up effective ground operations in many states (which she now argues are not important), did not have in-depth policies in place until the Edwards campaign forced her to, and did not incorporate “Change” into her campaign message until she started to listen to what voters are actually looking for.

If there is one word which characterizes her campaign until Super Tuesday, it is “Complacency“. I think we can all agree that we’ve had enough of that in the past few administrations.

There is also a word for her campaign style between Super Tuesday and the Texas and Ohio primaries: “Spin“.

And since those primaries, her campaign switched into a new mode, which can best be described with two words: “Character Assassination“.

The more I think about it, the more I agree with many in the blogosphere that she is using Rovian tactics (as in Karl Rove). We can all see where that got us.

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