It’s hard to believe that the election in November will feature neither Rudy Giuliani or, very likely, Hillary Clinton. A year ago, both were front runners and both were thought to be well-organized, well-positioned presumptive nominees.

Well, we all saw what happened to Rudy, and we’re all seeing what’s happening to Hillary. How did this happen?

Andrew Sullivan has some thoughts:

Clinton is a terrible manager of people. Coming into a campaign she had been planning for, what, two decades, she was so not ready on Day One, or even Day 300. Her White House, if we can glean anything from the campaign, would be a secretive nest of well-fed yes-people, an uncontrollable egomaniac spouse able and willing to bigfoot anyone if he wants to, a phalanx of flunkies who cannot tell the boss when things are wrong, and a drizzle of dreary hacks like Mark Penn. Her only genuine skill is pivoting off the Limbaugh machine (which is now as played out as its enemies). Her new weapon is apparently bursting into tears. I mean: really.

Shortly after South Carolina, a colleague of mine made the observation that the Clintons got really old, really fast. I’m not sure what the world will look like post-Clinton.

I had another colleague of mine suggest that Hillary really never understood her own appeal. From the beginning of the campaign, she’s seemed unable to find a message that will resonate. Well, this colleague of mine thinks that Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live might have found the right tone: