Hillary "Huckabee" Clinton

Finally. The Pennsylvania primaries are over. No more bitter-gate. No more Charlie Gibson. No more Hillary. Wait a minute, you mean she's still in the race?

Is anybody really buying her claim that she can win this nomination? Is anyone buying her claim that she can win the general election?

I realize that the media is loving this drawn out race, but let's face it, Hillary Clinton just can't win the nomination. She netted a whopping ten delegates out of the largest remaining state. Of course her campaign is calling this the momentum-generator that her candidacy so desperately needed. However, the math for Hillary is just impossible. With a 130+ delegate deficit, at this point she would need to take at least 20 delegates in each of the remaining states, which is just not possible.

As of today, I have decided to dub her Hillary "Huckabee" Clinton. Just like Mike Huckabee, she is staying in the race when it is just NOT winnable. Unfortunately, because of the superdelegates, her defeat, while an eventuality, is not a foregone conclusion.

Just like with Huckabee, the pundits and newscasters are all trying to come up with all of these ridiculous scenarios in which she could pick up enough delegates to secure the nomination.

"Now if every black person in North Carolina doesn't vote, AND Barack Obama punches an old lady, AND if every Hillary supporter gets two votes..."

However, no matter what the scenario, her chances rely solely on the superdelegates flipping to her.

In what world does she live in that she thinks that the superdelegates will somehow vote against the popular vote? In which situation does she think that it's ok for the democratic party to go against the wishes of its electorate by nominating her? Race after race proves that, while she has some appeal to a lot of voters, the general population prefers Barack Obama.

It is now absolutely clear to me that Hillary does not have our country's best interests at heart. All she is succeeding in doing is tearing down Obama's reputation. And to what end? She can't win the nomination. So, in essence, she's doing John McCain's work for him. She's painting the eventual democratic nominee as an inferior candidate.

If Hillary Clinton really cared for her country, she would bow out and go on the stump as an Obama surrogate. If she really wanted the working-class people to succeed, she would make sure that, her own aspirations aside, a democrat takes office in 2009, which becomes a more daunting task as she plays dirtier and dirtier. It's time to stop being selfish and start thinking about the good of the party.

Will this happen? Will Hillary finally quit? My prediction: No way.

Hillary is hell-bent on becoming the first woman president. She is as determined, stubborn, and delusional as Mike Huckabee was earlier in the primary season. Hillary will fight and fight and make ridiculous claims about "electability." She will hang on way past any conceivable "comeback" is possible, and will insist on having a brokered convention. This should be a sign to her supporters that she truly is merely another Clinton. She is a professional politician. She does not care about her country or her party, she is concerned with winning, and winning only.

Support the one candidate who isn't bought and paid for. Support the candidate that the voters actually want. Support Senator Barack Obama.

http://www.barackobama.com