Hillary Clinton's Insanity

We all love a winner. We all love one, because we all want to be one in this country that rewards winning today more than winning a lot yesterday. So we like the guy/girl who is ahead right now.

Obama was not that guy in the beginning. Last fall, he was behind an average of 20 pts in the polls going against Hillary Clinton. Hillary was Hillary, the presumptive Democratic nominee. She has Bill, a big-state Senate background, and big enough balls to crack a chestnut. She still has all that, but she wants more.

The nomination fight is nothing more than a bar fight now. Obama is the sober guy defending his girl, the Democratic nomination, from the belligerent drunk (Hillary) who keeps trying to cop a feel and telling her buddies (her 'base') she is taking her home for sure. Those fights are hard to end, because the drunk never knows when to stop, and wont, until she is on the floor, embarrassed.

This is Hillary's problem. In today's New York Times, new evidence of her stubborness was presented to the jury. According to their political blog, The Caucus:

Adding a new mathematical twist to her case for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Monday that she had not only won more popular votes than Senator Barack Obama, she had won states totaling far more electoral votes.

Interesting, as she had made it a point of attack that Obama's win in swing states would not matter in the general election, because they would not be won by a Democrat. Now, she is saying those same rules apply to the primary. But there is more:

As she has in the past, she discounted Mr. Obama’s victories in caucus states and states likely to vote Republican in November, ticking off Alaska, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas and Idaho. “Many of his votes and delegates come from caucus state which have a relatively low turnout,” she said.

So the record turnout that has come because of her fight with Obama (if not because of Obama himself) is not relevant. She believes what was true years ago is still true now, and nothing changes as time goes by.

She also dismissed Democratic nominating rules requiring proportional allocation of delegates from primaries and caucuses, rather than the winner-take-all system used by the Republicans.

“If we had same rules as the Republicans, I would be the nominee right now,” she said.

Ahhhh, the trademark of a sore loser, blaming everything else except yourself. If she were a Republican, she would be the nominee by now, she says. Hillary needs to stop ACTING like a Republican, otherwise, she might get a tap on the shoulder by McCain as a running mate. It would be smart move in that he knows she goes for the jugular, even against a former party member.

Hillary is not a Democrat anymore. She is just Hillary Clinton. She knows no party loyalty, no respect for democracy, and no ethical pathway to the nomination/presidency. In this way, she is no worse that George Bush was when he ran against McCain in 2000: Win at all costs.

Here is a word of advice, Hillary, make this your campaign slogan:

I’m going to make my case and I’m going to make it until I’m the nominee

You said it, girl.

lhp