I would'a won but for....

ABC News reported Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic presidential nominee if John Edwards had been caught in his lie about an extramarital affair and forced out of the race last year,

As Ed Morrissey indicated The National Enquirer made the story public in December, after weeks of handwringing by the Los Angeles Times, which sat on the story.

insists a top Clinton campaign aide, making a charge that could exacerbate previously existing tensions between the camps of Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. "I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee," former Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson told ABCNews.com.

So Silky Pony should have pulled out when the tabloid story first broke out, and let Queen Hillary take Iowa, even though he had spent a year or two in Iowa trying to win.