It’s not just that her candidacy’s central premise the priceless value of “experience” was fatally poisoned from the start by her still ill-explained vote to authorize the fiasco. Senator Clinton then compounded that 2002 misjudgment by pursuing a 2008 campaign strategy that uncannily mimicked the disastrous Bush Iraq war plan. After promising a cakewalk to the nomination “It will be me,” Mrs. Clinton told Katie Couric in November she was routed by an insurgency.
