Joe Wilson endorses Hillary

Oh, man…Elizabeth Edwards has to be pissed today:

Wilson just said that “she is the one candidate in my judgment who understands the need to get America out of harm’s way,” and into a “political process.” He added that she best understands the need to “end the war but end it in a way that preserves some shred of our strategic position in the region.”

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Wilson also says that one thing that bonds the two is their mutual experience with the “meat grinder” — a.k.a., the right wing slime machine.

Todd Beeton opines:

As Sargent notes, this is clearly part of Clinton’s strategy to gain support among the liberal base, the blogosphere in particular, which she has conspicuously held at arm’s length. Coming as it does via conference call with liberal bloggers 2 weeks prior to the start of YearlyKos, the Clinton campaign apparently believes Wilson’s endorsement will give her a sort of she’s-one-of-us cred among bloggers, if only to lessen the boos she gets at the YearlyKos presidential forum. And it just may work.

Think about that for a minute. Elizabeth Edwards has been courting the lefty bloggers for three plus years now, on Democratic Underground, Daily Kos, and several other lefty sites. John Edwards has based his entire campaign on netroots populism, veering so far left as to become a caricature of himself. And in swoops Hillary Clinton, nabbing the endorsement of perhaps the biggest leftosphere celebrity extant (with the exception of his wife, Valerie — who has not participated in the ’sphere). And MyDD thinks this endorsement might just swing the netroots around.

Update: The long awaited Sister Souljah moment?

Well, he would probably like a job in the next administration, and placed his bet on the frontrunner.

I hope her YK (ed. — YearlyKos) appearance isn’t too contentious; it seems like a Sister Souljah opportunity for her, and we don’t need that.

If there’s one thing we know about Hillary Clinton, it’s that she gets even with those who try to screw her over. If I were Markos, I’d be getting nervous about now.

Update 2: Note also Hillary’s close ties to Media Matters for America (via Glenn Reynolds).

Update 3: Welcome again, Instapundit readers!

Update 4: An insider friend emails:

Ha. Just remember what happened the last time a Democratic candidate for President embraced Joe Wilson.