Clinton: Florida like Zimbabwe

Wow, this seems like a dumb move. [Link]

Desperation leads to foolishness, and Hillary Clinton is not immune from that process. In a campaign appearance in Florida, Hillary tried to play into the anger that Democrats there feel over their exclusion from the Democratic National Convention by comparing their plight to Zimbabwe. If that wasn’t bad enough, she made a statement that Barack Obama supporters will likely find even more outrageous (via Memeorandum):

Desperate to get attention for her cause to seat Florida and Michigan delegates, Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election to the uncounted votes of Michigan and Florida voters saying it is wrong when “people go through the motions of an election only to have them discarded and disregarded.”

“We’re seeing that right now in Zimbabwe,” Clinton explained. “Tragically, an election was held, the president lost, they refused to abide by the will of the people,” Clinton told the crowd of senior citizens at a retirement community in south Florida.

Er, Zimbabwe? Did Democratic leadership send armed thugs to beat Hillary voters? We haven’t seen this kind of hysterical paranoia in politics since …. well, since Florida 2000. Either Hillary hasn’t got a foggy clue about what happened in Florida, or what is happening in Zimbabwe right now, or both. No one stole the election in Florida; the state did not follow the rules, and Howard Dean idiotically stripped the state of all its delegates, not half as the Republicans did.