Until Hillary Has To Pay A Political Price For Her Actions-Shes Going To Keep Moving The Goal Posts" [View All]

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Hillary is taking this to the convention
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/21/2008

Until Hillary has to pay a political price for her actions, she's going to keep moving the goal posts until the entire game is lost.

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Putting aside for a moment the mutli-layered lie that is any talking point coming from the Clinton campaign (yes, the great white hope is now a champion against bigotry), the more important question isn't whether Hillary faced and faces sexism, but rather, why is Hillary still trying to open more wounds in the party and the electorate?

Hillary's latest greatest strategy is to convince her followers that they were robbed of their nomination because "elites" in Washington, including the Democratic elites (read: Superdelegates), hate women (I guess that's news to Nancy Pelosi). Now, what possible reason is there for Hillary to latch on to this new strategy? Because she's planning on leaving the election in the next 3 weeks and ending things on a high note? Because she thinks she can win 90% of the vote and 90% of the remaining Superdelegates by telling Democrats that they're a bunch of bigots? Hillary has stopped the personal attacks against Obama, but that wasn't because she finally realized she can't win, and that in the meantime she was simply hurting the party. Hillary stopped attacking Obama because she realized that she can't win BY ATTACKING OBAMA. She's found a new foil, sexism, and she has a new plan she's going to ride all the way to the convention. And she's told us as much all along, but no one wanted to believe her.

When has Hillary said even once that she'll end this by early June or mid-June, or any date at all? She refuses to set a date by which she will abide by the decision of the voters and the superdelegates, and if anything, her people have made quite clear that June will not end this. That should tell you something. If she were planning on pulling out in 2 or 3 weeks, she'd have said "after the last election, the person with the most superdelegates wins." But she hasn't said that. Why? Because Hillary knows that she can still steal this election on August 22, days before the start of the Democratic Convention. If political lightning finally strikes and we suddenly discover in August that Obama is actually a space alien hell bent on serving Americans as lunch, the superdelegates can legally switch their vote to Hillary and she would be our nominee. She's going to stay in the race, waiting for that day.

That, my friends, is what's going on. That's Hillary's plan. And why shouldn't it be? What possible penalty does Hillary pay for dragging the race until August and putting our party on the verge of, in not in a full-fledged, civil war? What - her histrionics might make Obama lose in November? Yeah, she's really worried about doing something that might allow her to run again in four years. No one in town is standing up to her. No one in the party, no one on the Hill. Hillary is paying, and will pay, no penalty for dragging this out until August, so why should she stop now?

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