If being an object of ridicule kills political careers, we wouldn't still have Ted Kennedy in the party, or Howard Dean, John Kerry, Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, or John Murtha. And since the Clintons have similar name recognition as the Kennedy's, and both Clintons have successfully weathered intense public ridicule in the past, I think it's doubtful that anything that happens this primary season will be enough to fatally wound HRC's future political viability.

I'm neither defending nor decrying her conduct in this primary, I'm just noting that others have been shat upon by the media and even other Dems, yet they've endured to continue long and successful political careers.