Be careful what you wish for, Republicans

Top of the Ticket's Andrew Malcolm has a story on the Limbaugh effect in Texas. It was not observable in Ohio, but in Texas Republican voters broke less heavily for Obama than elsewhere.

Malcolm concludes with this:

But under the category of "be very careful what you wish for":

Wouldn't it be a stunning historical irony if Clinton, who's worked hard to adhere closer to the all-important general election political center than Obama, won the nomination in August and the election in November, all thanks to this vast right-wing conspiracy that briefly swallowed its hate of her in March to save her bacon in Texas?

The Republican Limbaugh voters have miscalculated. I've talked about McCain's opening with lower-class voters (Hillary's electorate) if Obama is nominated. But that vanishes with Hillary as the nominee. How would McCain attack Hillary? I asked this question back in the middle of October last year, when I thought it was going to be Romney. McCain has an even bigger problem attacking Hillary if he's the nominee, it seems to me, because the narrative on him is that he's a military guy with a temper. In the midst of a failed war, I think it would be more difficult for him to attack a woman than Obama.