Clinton campaign demonstrates repeated incompetence

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In the last ten days they have looked really bad.

The campaign fired campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle.

The chief complaints were several. One was that Solis Doyle's insistence that Clinton not begin to run for president until the she formally decided to run had put her at a tremendous fundraising disadvantage. Another was that Solis Doyle, a native of Chicago, did not fully anticipate the threat that Barack Obama would pose and therefore did not come up with a strategy to contain his candidate. A third was that Solis Doyle was not adept at managing what amounted to a 500 person corporation. A fourth was that, in managing the corporation, the care and feeding of important Democrats -- the large universe of Clinton advisers outside the campaign -- fell by the wayside.

Clinton heard these complaints -- some of them having merit, others not -- and stuck by Solis Doyle.

Hired originally for her loyalty instead of competence; kept on for her loyalty -- echoing some of the biggest complaints people have about the Bush administration.

Then it turned out that the campaign had not worked out how Texas delegates are apportioned, and were taken by surprise by it, after a rule change that took place last year.

Now today it turns out that they have screwed up Pennsylvania:

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign failed to file a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

This despite the possibility the primary proves critical and despite Clinton owning the full-throated support of Gov. Rendell, state Democratic Party leadership, Mayor Nutter and, presumably, the organizational skill all that entails.

And despite a Rendell-ordered extension of the filing deadline that could be viewed as more than just coincidental.

Even with special help from Fast Eddie, they wind up 10% short on delegates in PA. It turns out to be mostly a cosmetic problem, but not so unimportant that they didn't refuse help from Rendell.

Yesterday, the idea floated that the Clinton campaign would be "lobbying pledged delegates" -- not "superdelegates", but the delegates won by other candidates, reflecting the will of the voters -- and today they retracted the idea with force after total public outrage.

If she ran the country the same way she's running the campaign, it would be... bad.