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Hey, I believe in democracy. I'm a big believer. So I'm opposed to any and all shenanigans that Democratic bigwigs are talking about using as a way to end the Democratic Party's presidential race. Now, I'm backing Obama, so I wouldn't mind if Hillary had an epiphany and decided to drop out tomorrow. But if she decides to stay in it and try to win, well, OK.
A lot of people are nervous that a long primary will doom the Democrat in the general election. My feeling is that it would be hard for a Democrat to lose. People have talked about Clinton using the "Tonya Harding option," whereby, in losing, she essentially cuts Obama off at the knees for the general election. That's a possibility, of course, but that's just not cricket. If she pulls that shit and costs the Democrats the 2008 election out of spite, good freakin' luck finding support from your less-than-ecstatic Congressional colleagues over the next 4 years.
So, as a believer in democracy, here's what I'm asking of the voters in Pennsylvania: Just end this. Give Obama a 5-point win. That breaks the back of the Clinton campaign and drains the destructive energy out of her increasingly cynical campaign. To me, that's the best outcome: the voters decide.
Come on Pennsylvania!!
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"... her increasingly cynical campaign."
Why do you call it 'cynical?'
Because her only chance of success is predicated on destroying Barack Obama's electability, not on belatedly proving her own.
There is almost no scenario where she goes into the convention trailing by fewer than 100 delegates. How could you lose the primary vote and win the superdelegate vote by that much? You have to destroy your opponent.
The other possibility is that, you know, she is so beloved in Pennsylvania that she wins there by like 5 million votes.
These are good points. I'm willing to give her the respect to accept that she believes she would be a good president and that there is still some circumstance under which that could happen. This despite the fact that I have never been her supporter.
I agree with you that she ought not to do anything that would damage Obama --- but just wait until he wins the nomination. The incoming fire from the Republicans will be unmerciful.
Hopefully, they won't beat each other up so badly, that more of the loser's legions will support the winner, rather than say they are not going to support a woman or a black and migrate to the Nader or McCain camps. Brutal truth is eithers' running mate needs to be a male white guy with a friendly face with a $500 haircut. I wonder who that might be???
I think it was ABC’s “This Week” this weekend where all of the pundits on the show seemed to agree that Hillary was now mostly focused on getting elected in 2012. And a key part of getting the nomination in 2012 would be not having a democratic incumbent at that point. I’m not that cynical of her yet, but it was an interesting theory.
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