Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley had little chance of winning the Democrat Party’s nomination for president prior to the Tuesday debate among the contenders. Hours before taking the stage, however, he managed to erase any possibility of attracting millions of votes.

On Tuesday, O’Malley’s deputy campaign director gave reporters a memo outlining his strategy. It is that if elected president, he will behave as a clone of President Barack Obama.

After gushing over what Obama has done, the memo stresses, “We now need someone who can carry the ball the rest of the way.”

With more gun control laws of the type O’Malley signed into law in Maryland?

More federal control over health care, perhaps adding millions to the already high number of Americans paying higher prices for medical care because of Obamacare?

An intensified assault against affordable electricity and the coal industry?

And, though it is difficult to imagine a worse foreign policy than that pursued by Obama, even more actions that put Americans in danger from both terrorist groups and rogue nations?

O’Malley, perhaps desperate to distinguish himself from other Democrat candidates, plans to brag about similarities between himself and Obama.

Talk about dropping the ball …