Two Reports Indicate A Hillary Holdout Could Backfire

[Edgewater_Joe]

First, there's James Carville on TalkingPointsMemo going off the reservation and admitting that Obama "will" win the general election, gutting Hillary's electability argument ...

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/carville_on_obama_i_think_he_w.php

... and that's interesting ...

... but then comes what I think is the really revealing story, from Huffington Post's Tom Edsall. Apparently Hillary is likely to lose Saturday's vote, but the reason why, if true, spells doom for Hillary:

Harold Ickes, Clinton's chief delegate hunter, warned that there may be some defections among the 13 RBC members who have endorsed Hillary. If Ickes and his allies cannot hold all their troops in line, a motion before the RBC to seat all 210 Florida and 156 Michigan delegates with a full vote each would face certain defeat.

Folks ... and lurking Hillbots ... if this is true, any attempt by Hillary to take this to Denver is not only going to fail, but will also be deeply embarrassing. It seems to me if the Hillary campaign can't even hold their own allies on a committee that they themselves help put together back in the days when she was the inevitable nominee, then it's more likely she'll bleed support and bleed it badly between next Wednesday and the convention than convince other supers that she should usurp Obama.

Maybe this is what Obama and Reid and Pelosi have been talking about for weeks -- that they knew all of this and this is why they didn't stress out about Hillary's blathering. If so, the campaign (and the Democratic leadership) has more moxie than any and all of us ever thought they did.

Hope I'm right!