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April 7, 2008
Hillary's "Tonya Harding" Approach to Politics
I don't normally care what the Left-wing shill "Newsweek" has to say, and I despise the communist Markos Moulitsas , but he's absolutely right in his observations of that carpet-bagger Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Hillary Clinton has proved during the past few months that she is a fighter, that she is tenacious, and that she is in the race to win. There's just one problem. She's already lost.
No matter how you define victory, Barack Obama holds an insurmountable lead in the race to earn the Democratic nomination. He leads in the one metric that matters most: the pledged delegates chosen directly by Democratic voters. But he also leads in the popular vote, the number of states won and money raised. Still, Obama's advantages aren't large enough to allow him an outright victory. He needs the 20 percent of party delegates who aren't bound to a candidate. It's with these superdelegates that Clinton has staked her ephemeral chances.
Clinton's near-lone chance of victory rests with a coup by superdelegate, persuading enough of them to overcome the primary voters' preference. Yet a coup by elite Democrats would be ill-received, to put it mildly. Obama's base spans the party's most loyal and engaged constituencies: African-Americans, professionals who generate hundreds of millions in small-dollar donations and a conventional-wisdom-defying outpouring of youth support.
If Obama lost at the polling booth, these supporters would accept the voters' verdict and carry on. Many, including those who backed Howard Dean's heartbreaking 2004 campaign, have been through such disappointment before. But if Beltway bigwigs steal a hard-won victory, it would amount to a declaration of civil war. Not only would the resolve of thousands of loyal foot soldiers and the party's new fund-raising base be irrevocably shaken, but it would torpedo the opportunity to build and strengthen a new generation of Democrats.
Clinton's best-case scenario for victory requires sundering her own party. It is an inherently divisive strategy, but she doesn't appear to care. For Clinton, all's fair in pursuit of victory—even destroying her party from within."
The only way HRC can win the Democratic nomination is if the superdelegates stage a coup and basically override the will of the populace and the delegates in one fell swoop. This would destroy the Democratic party because, if people see that their vote doesn't matter, then they won't vote Democrat next time. Next time they'll set up their own party and say "we will support the candidate that gets the most popular votes and to h3ll with the Democrats". Hillary knows this and doesn't care. She would destroy everything in her desperate, but futile, Machiavellian quest for power.
Posted by Rob Kiser on April 7, 2008 at 6:45 AM
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