Running on Ego
Hillary Clinton could be the answer to the energy crisis. If we could just harness whatever it is that fuels her enormous ego, we could run our cars and heat our homes forever.
Any normal candidate would have gracefully dropped out of the race after Tuesday's decisive loss in North Carolina and within-the-margin-of-error victory in Indiana. But not the Energizer Ego. Nothing — and I mean nothing — is going to stand in the way of what she considers rightfully hers.
And that's why I have this sickening feeling in the pit of my gut that she's going to win the nomination after all, mathematics be damned. The Obliterator knows very well that the nomination is in the hands of the party insiders — the superdelegates, not the voters. That's who she has to win over, and a good many of them are beholden to the Clintons, or afraid of them.
I heard a commenter today on NPR paraphrasing Clinton's main pitch to the superdelegates — his voters (African-Americans) will vote for me in November, but my voters (white, working class, not college educated - but the key word being white) won't vote for him.
Don't count the Energizer Ego out just yet.
Comments
The point of diminishing returns has surely been reached. Any further battle will cost the Dems across the board.
Posted by: Dennis Cartledge | May 8, 2008 06:51 PM
Cart, the Dems have already lost opportunity to focus on McCain's string of dumb statements. Instead of that, the media is focusing on the Democratic horserace.
Posted by: abi | May 8, 2008 08:06 PM
The point of diminishing returns has surely been reached. Any further battle will cost the Dems across the board.
In a word...WRONG!
Though she may not end up as the nominee, Senator Clinton to keep pushing right up to the convention for one simple reason: No one, especially not the 'Thuglicans, should be able to use her withdrawal to impugn the future candidacy of a qualified woman.
Posted by: Kvatch | May 8, 2008 09:06 PM
kvatch, surely we are post gender/race issues here. The world desperately needs leadership not the destructive left overs from the past.
Ok, left overs are by definition,from the past, but the sentiment holds.
Posted by: Dennis Cartledge | May 9, 2008 01:34 AM
I just get the sense of massive entitlement with Clinton. It wouldn't surprise me if she's been the Chosen One all along.
Posted by: nolocontendere | May 9, 2008 02:32 AM
Kvatch, I agree with Cart on this. I don't see how withdrawing from an all-but-lost cause for the good of the party would hurt the chances of future female candidates. She's already proven that women can and should run. She's doing this because she wants something - whether it's really the presidency she's reaching for at this point, or something else, only time will tell. But at this point she's not doing future female candidates any good - she's not doing this for anyone but herself.
Nolocontendere, I couldn't agree more - that giant sense of entitlement is the problem with both the Clintons, in fact.
Posted by: abi | May 9, 2008 06:47 AM
abi, take it easy on kvatch. He's a west coaster!!!
Posted by: Dennis Cartledge | May 11, 2008 03:42 AM
True, Cart, but at least Kvatch doesn't walk around upside-down all day like you Aussies do. ;-)
He also knows I respect his views - always have.
Posted by: abi | May 11, 2008 09:00 AM
Abi, Cartledge...
Think I owe you guys a response. I really believe that Clinton's withdrawal or failure to withdraw, is orthogonal to what happens next November. The election is the Democrat's to lose, but what I'm seeing on the blogs is pretty scary.
Bloggers whom I respect have taken to drinking the Obama-aid and are now accusing Clinton supporters of being turncoats. Incredible nonsense, I know, but exactly the type of nonsense that will propel McCain into the White House if we're not careful.
Together Clinton and Obama supporters are unassailable. Apart...we're done for.
Posted by: Kvatch | May 13, 2008 08:06 PM
Kvatch, if Clinton wins the nomination, I won't vote for her - not because I've drunk any Koolaid, but because she's the kind of self-obsessed, finger-in-the-wind pol that we need to get rid of in government, not encourage by continuing to vote for them.
Posted by: abi | May 14, 2008 07:18 PM