Hillary Clinton Wants To Psych You Out
I have read comment after comment dscussing the reasons Hillary Clinton should drop out of the primary race after failing to win big in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday, March 4th. Comment after comment about the fatigue people are feeling, how ready they are for this to just...be...over. The Hillary supporters are reading all of this as well and they are forming their strategy accordingly.
Hillary is trying to make herself appear to be a Hollywood monster like Godzilla or King Kong. The little people keep shooting the monster and throwing everything they have at it, but it just won't die. That is what she is trying to convince you is true about her campaign. She sets up a false deadline of March 4th and then she moves it out again. She lets it be known that she is prepared to fight this out on the convention floor to get her way. She refuses to allow rank and file voters to determine the outcome of the primaries (unless the superdelegates seem to be breaking for Obama, then she wants the 'people to decide' and tries to seat Florida and Michigan delegates).
Hillary Clinton is counting on you to give up. She wants to force a Solomon's choice on Obama. She is counting on you to do the noble thing and ask Obama to step aside for the sake of defeating John McCain. She is certain that election fatigue will set in. That Obama is just a fad and that she can outlast you. She is like one of those Texas Hold'em players in the World Series of Poker, trying to bluff you out with a pair of deuces. Hillary knows what kind of human resources have been mobilized by Team Obama for this week's contests. She is hoping that by refusing to go away, she will so demoralize Obama supporters that we will not be able to muster up the same strength for the remaining contests.
So.
Is she right?
Or can we manage to open up another can of whup ass for as long as it takes?
Beautiful, Hillary as a poltergeist, as Carrie, as a female Chuckie, as Halloween Part 15.
So tricky of her, trying to campaign all the way through the primaries. A reasonable candidate would Just Give Up. But she's an evil Superbitch. With supernatural powers - scales tall buildings, eats airplanes. But that's not enough. SuperObama will take her on - Godzilla meets Gamora. The world is saved. Whew, that was close.
March 3, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
The idea that continuing the race is bad for the party seems a little shortsighted to me and its for this reason that I voted for it to keep going, back when I had my chance on Super Tuesday.
The two candidates battling aren't particularly harmful, what could be problematic is the amount of vitriol that is being expressed on the web.
Right now, we have two people bashing Pres. Bush and Sen. McCain. They are getting double the airtime and every time that the Dems have a debate, they basically agree on all of the major points and the debates are televised without the Republicans getting equal time. Very little that either candidate is saying about each other is anything that the Republicans aren't going to trot-out and by addressing them now, we're essentially innoculating the candidate for the future.
I started saying sometime back in the fall that we were headed toward March or April and that we may even go all the way to the convention. There's no way that anyone could look at the primary calendar and reach any other conclusion.
What would prolong this fight isn't really the fault of either candidate because they seem to be splitting the vote and there isn't any clear victor. There may be trends in one direction or the other, but if you take Gov. Richardson's statement on "Face the Nation" at face value and if you believe that the candidate who is not ahead on March 5th should drop out, then what would you say if that candidate was Barack Obama?
March 3, 2008 1:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
If Barack Obama was behind the way Hillary Clinton is behind, I would be writing that he should drop out for the good of the party. The problem is not just that the race continues. If the campaign was positive and characterized by mutual respect then it would be just fine. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is using the dirtiest politics many of us have ever seen against the person who is probably going to be the nominee. She is causing people to hate her and to hate each other. She has endorsed the Republican candidate today. She won't just destroy arack Obama, she will destroy us all if she keeps this up.
March 3, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink