It's the Dems that are normally lockstep, Follow the PC Party Line. That issue is now corrected. It's remarkable this year how defiant so many people are, and aren't Following Orders like the good trained animals the Demmies normally are.

Hillary Clinton, offensive and repellent even to some of her fellow lefties, is the problem. It's overdoing things to the point of silliness to speak of generational change. It's anti-Establishment sentiment more than anything else (augmented by anti-Bush sentiment).

In any case, Hillary's not a Republican. She's not entitled to it. Remember, Dems fall in love while Reps fall in line, and all that. And honestly, while she's better than the alternative, we're just not that into her. Still, I don't expect the Clintons to give it up without “prying it from their cold dead hands,” so I hope Obama is preparing for the fight that is likely to come.

Yes, her campaign is beginning to look more and more like Rudy's. But I think it looks more like like GW Bush's early 2000 effort. Dubya ran like he was entitled to it, if you'll recall. He seemed quite miffed that this punk McCain would actually contest the thing. And that independents should have any say in the choice. Being Republican, he was right of course, and McCain was properly slapped down in South Carolina and beyond.