In watching a bit of this weekend's tempest in a teapot ginned up by a Clinton campaign (and some far-sighted republicans) desperate for any thing they're throwing at the wall to stick, I realized something.

Despite the ambiguity surrounding his role (continuing or not) with the Clinton campaign, it would seem that this latest dust-up is not (at least not wholly) a creation of Mark Penn. 

While I also recognize that this (waning) stage of the Clinton campaign is almost duty-bound to try to seize upon any/all potential opportunities as though they will be the be-all-end-all turning point in the race, it is hard for me to come to any conclusion other than the fact that this type of intra-party fratricide campaigning that seemed to emanate from Mark Penn's association with the campaign may actually be the chosen and preferred strategy of the candidate herself.

That the Clinton campaign's overall message and feel has not changed since the exit of Mark Penn and that they continue to cling to this type of unabashed cynical opportunism reveals to me that Penn may have simply been following orders, and that perhaps the vilification of Penn and "his" strategy should be revisited and refocused elsewhere...