Why won’t Hillary quit?
admin @ May 19
Bill and Hillary Clinton are among the consummate politicians of our era. If you start with that premise, then Hillary Clinton’s imitation of the Energizer Bunny must be more than just not knowing how to leave the stage.
There are at least 3 possibilities:
1. Can’t win if you don’t play. In the YouTube age of politics, any mistake can be instantly magnified into a campaign changer. While Barack Obama is unlikely to have a “macaca” moment, Hillary’s strategy could be to stick around hoping for a bigger mistake than “bitter” whites or for the emergence of another Rev. Wright from Obama’s past.
2. Go with the odds. One of the best ways to become president is to start as vice president. Sure, Obama and Hillary undoubtedly despise each other after a long, bitter campaign. But so did Kennedy and Johnson, the last two sitting senators to share a ticket and win. Perhaps Hillary’s end game is to leverage her supporters’ rabid enthusiasm into a unity ticket. That would probably require keeping her search for superdelegates alive until the convention.
3. Make Machiavelli proud. The last third of Hillary’s campaign has sounded much more like a Republican attack ad than like a Democratic intramural. The Clinton delegate counters may have concluded long ago that the 2008 nomination was a lost cause. So why not stick around and help defeat Obama? John McCain would be the oldest first term president in the nation’s history, so actuarial tables alone—never mind the mess that George Bush will leave behind—suggests that his re-election could be a challenge. If Obama loses, Hillary inherits the party (maybe).
Of course, there is also the possibility that the Clintons have simply lost their magic, or that she is working through the five stages of (political) death: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. If so, this will go on long after the last primary votes are cast on June 3.
Of course you won't vote for Obama! Hilliary is a white woman and you'd rather see a white person in the white house than a black person. You're rascist! There have always been white men as president and you want to keep it that way, despite the fact that not all whites are fit to be president: Look at George Bush! Look how he screwed everything up! Ronald Reagan wasn't exactly a brain scholar, either. It's all pure rascism. cjw
Dont quit now take it all the way to the convention floor. I wont vote for Obama or Mc Cane, lets get a write-in vote started for Hillary Clinton now.
Would YOU throw in the towel after spending millions and millions to get the nomination? We Americans always applaud the never say day, never give up, do or die attitude. Now we demand She be a quitter??
I am not voting for either of them but let them go the distance for Gods sake.