Congressional Dems were rats deserting the Clinton campaign ship

That’s one of the strongest things I took from Gail Sheehy’s magazine tome on the rise and fall of the Hillary Clinton campaign. Like this:

But no matter how impressive her victories in swing states like West Virginia, the super-delegates were not breaking her way. The new Democratic establishment, led by D.N.C. chairman Howard Dean and the increasingly respected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, just didn’t want the Clinton circus back in town.

Earlier in the piece, Sheehy notes how Democratic Senators who had befriended her as a junior member of the club, or even when she was First Lady, were quick to turn to Obama.

Last month, I blogged that I thought she lost in part by competing in Iowa. Even after the leakage (by Mark Penn?) of Mike Henry’s “skip it” memo, I still think she could have skipped Iowa.

But, Sheehy offer yet another reason for Clinton’s loss.

She failed to run as fully Hillary Clinton, a human being who is also a woman.