Further evidence for my 3 A.M. theory: Here’s Hillary:

But before leaving, to insert herself into the day’s news coverage, she held a quick media availability at the Hilton and provided this unusually concise capsule comment for reporters, including The Times’ Louise Roug: “I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”

Save for, say, a blood promise that the first SCOTUS seat in an Obama administration is hers, Hillary Clinton’s second choice is McCain.