Woodward trolling for a new book?

Or is he just out-stupiding himself? I can't think of any other reason for him to blather about an Obama-Clinton 2012 ticket.

But, he is:

"It's on the table," veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN's John King in an interview Tuesday on John King, USA. "Some of Hillary Clinton's advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012."

Ahh, what "supersecret" Hillary advisers, Woody? Tell us, so we can see just how stupid, on the one hand, or delusional, on the other they are.

First, as even Poppy Bush knew, you can't just dump an incumbent Veep, if you're already batting from weakness. FDR did it with Cactus Jack Garner because Garner opposed much of the New Deal AND FDR's abandoning the two-term tradition. But, FDR was strong enough to do it, and looking for somebody who would shore him up with liberals, especially after the GOP nominated Willkie.

Ike tried to get Tricky Dick to jump but was wayyyy too smart to try to push him out.

And, on the other side of FDR, the last time a sitting Veep was pushed aside was Hannibal Hamlin in 1864, and that was the choice of the GOP to relabel itself as the Union Party and get a War Democrat on the ticket. Lincoln himself liked Hamlin more than enough to keep him on the ticket.

The Axe is clearly smarter than Woody; or than Mitch Daniels, Leslie Gelb, or others believing this moonshine, as he immediately shot it down.

Next, Obama's thin-skinned enough he doesn't want his re-election to have to depend on massive kowtowing to both Clintons. As well as knowing this would make him a lame duck in spades.

Flip side is that if an Obama-Clinton ticket loses, we know who gets blamed. At least by those writing history from the south side of Chicago.

What's really happening is the same Clintonistas unhappy she wasn't tabbed as Kumbaya's Veep in 2008 have latched on to the recent Gallup poll saying she could draw 37 percent in Democratic primaries in 2012, and are trying to leverage something.

Folks, there's nothing to leverage. Obama dumps Biden, and independents consider him a loser.