Lower and lower

Unbe-fucking-lievable.

God only knows what Ms. 3AM was thinking about. Even super-Hillaryite Marsh Taylor is at a loss:

Is this thing over yet? That’s what many are feeling today, as everyone is as close to the breaking point with fatigue as it comes. We need a long weekend. Clinton’s statement today reveals our collective fatigue and was unbelievably unfortunate. Looking at her make her statement of regret you can see her pain and that she is devastated by what she said, which is clear in the statement below from the Clinton camp.

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Take the lady at her word. She made a horrible mistake that she regrets. We could all use a day off, which I hope this long weekend will supply.

At least Taylor has the sense to recognize a Clinton foot-in-a-Clinton mouth when she sees it. And on Talk Left, another Clintonista hotbed, Armando recognizes an “unfortunate, inappropriate statement by Senator Clinton” was “simply is an indefensible remark, and in very poor taste.”

Reason usually prevails where reasonable people are involved.

In contrast, the batshit crazy continues over at No Quarter, where a batshit crazy post about Clintion’s appalling statement by the inaptly named “truthteller” is titled like one of Kim il Jong’s batshit crazy slogans: “Typical Obama Supporters Willfully Misinterpret Clinton Open Thread” begins “Obama supporters are sexist and violent,” blaming anyone-other-than-Hillary for what is, seen in the best possible light, an “indefensible remark,” a “horrible mistake” which was “unbelievably unfortunate,” before it spirals into a lame pissing match with an anonymous commentator on one of NQ’s increasingly banal and insane threads.

At this point, it seems obvious to me that Hillary is only hurting Hillary. I don’t think she intended her comment maliciously, it was just an incredibly stupid thing to say, the kind of thing which is a natural by product of grasping at straws and twisting logic at every turn to justify staying in the race and seeking to overturn the results of the caucuses and primaries as measured by the once agreed-upon metric of delegate counts. Trying to justify staying in the race because Bobby got whacked probably seemed logical for the nanosecond it took to shoot out of her brain and come out of her mouth.

The perception her statement creates doesn’t require any “willful misinterpretation,” even if her remark was not as ill-intended as it was perceived. But it underscores why it is time for Hillary to end her campaign and surrender the limelight, before she kills (her own image and goodwill) again.