In a variety of conference calls over the next few days, in surrogate appearances, and in memos distributed to reporters, the [Clinton] campaign will directly challenge Obama on points of his resume, on past statements of his, on the details of his current policy plans, and on his campaign's pushback that it is Clinton who is not electable. By significant margins, Democrats believe that Clinton is the most electable Democrat and that she will win the nomination, and that she has the requisite experience to be president. The Clinton campaign wants to spread the idea that Obama would be crushed in a general election by a Republican nominee who is more experienced and more glib than he is. They're prepared to question his credentials from Obama's right and left, pointing today, for example, to a 1996 report that he favored registering hand guns.
It seems rather odd for Clinton to be attacking Obama from the right in a Democratic primary ... aren't there plenty of lefty things Clinton has said in the past that are open to attack? Of course, in the spirit of triangulation, Clinton also plans to attack from the left. Here's Ambinder:
From the left, the campaign is readying contrast ads to be used against Barack Obama; they take on his health care plan and use quotations from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to question why Obama is using 'Republican' talking points on the issue. No decision has been made to run the ads, campaign sources said.
Obama likes to say that this is America's moment; but the closing weeks of the campaign really will be his moment. His ability to withstand what the Clintons are about to throw his way would be confirmation of his ability to withstand anything the Republicans may throw at him in a general election. Meanwhile, Clinton's New Hampshire "firewall" seems to be, um, burning down.