Who Needs To Win A Caucus If You Have Already Won?

Being competitive is the standard Clinton has set? This is getting absolutely ridiculous from the Clinton campaign, this time from former Gov. and erstwhile presidential candidate Tom Vilsack.

“I can’t predict this thing – I don’t think anyone can, it’s so close,” he said.

The former two-term governor then offered a twist on my question – he said he couldn’t guess if Mrs. Clinton would “win,” yet he had no doubt that she had already “succeeded” in Iowa.

“When she got into this in March, she wasn’t competitive here – she wasn’t competitive,” Mr. Vilsack said, putting it as plainly as he ever has that Iowa Democrats were quite skeptical of a Clinton candidacy early on, a fact that led a Clinton deputy campaign manager to suggest last spring that she skip Iowa altogether.

“Now I think everyone would acknowledge that she is competitive here,” Mr. Vilsack said. “She has succeeded.”

The overwhelming national favorite is merely competitive in Iowa and that is success? Clinton’s strategy is reminiscent of a saying by former Republican Senator George Aiken: “The best policy is to declare victory and leave.”

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