The campaign for the presidency just keeps getting more and more surreal.
Reading Pajamas Media's roundup on today's events, I found this gem -- an apparently accurate quote from Hillary Clinton:

"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he'd bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."

Did I read this correctly? Did Hillary just endorse John McCain for the presidency over Barack Obama? How else would anyone understand this comment?

They do have so much in common! I mean after all, not only would they both be great at answering the White House red phone at 3:00 a.m., but they're both tested under conditions that would make most people crack. McCain was tortured as a POW in North Vietnam under appalling conditions, and Hillary had to endure life with Bill Clinton (and all that goes with that) in the White House.

And of course, like John McCain a few months ago, Hillary Clinton is now running as the underdog:

She not only is vigorously attacking Barack Obama but simultaneously portraying herself as a victim.

It is a nifty political two-step.

She is a victim because a male-dominated press corps has counted her out, she says, and has lavished praise on Obama without submitting him to any real scrutiny.

At a Clinton rally in Westerville, Ohio, on Sunday, one woman carried a sign that read: "DON'T LET THE PRESS BOY-CRUSH PICK OUR PRESIDENT."

Time's Karen Tumulty noted: "Indeed, at Clinton's first event of the day, there was almost an anger at the idea that the pundits and the press have anointed a winner before the people have voted."

And Clinton told the crowd: "We're coming back. ... We need someone in the White House again who is a fighter!"

Aside from the incredible and amazing similarities between Hillary Clinton and John McCain, another factor is the fact that many Republicans are voting for Hillary or being urged to do so for strategic reasons.

This may be a form of outreach to them, by way of letting them know that she might as well be John McCain.

The sobering reality is that Hillary could still very well win the nomination.

(Something I've been predicting and dreading for years.)

UPDATE: Rush Limbaugh is making a last minute push for Hillary.

My problem with the strategy is threefold:

1. Hillary can still win the nomination; and

2. She will be a much more formidable opponent than Barack Obama; and

3. A return of the Clintons to the White House would (IMO) be a worse disaster for the country than the election of Barack Obama.