The absurdity of the Clinton campaign has become so loud it's giving me a headache. Caught in what is now an inexorable countdown to her delegate-count defeat, Clinton's campaign and supporters continue to claim, as shrill as ever, that she's "leading the popular vote."
Michigan. Doesn't. Count. Per. Hillary.
So having once agreed to the rules and now deciding they must be changed because she's losing, Hillary becomes not the Al Gore of this election (as some have claimed she will attempt), but the George W. Bush, minus a Supreme Court to throw the election to her.
And a huge joke. The brilliant impersonation that Amy Poehler has adopted of Hillary over the last few weeks will be seared into our national consciousness, just as Dana Carvey's George H.W. Bush became the model for what the nation really thought of him. "Naaaht, gaaaahna, dooit," Carvey's Bush intoned, and slipping on the banana peel of popular culture's disdain for him, Bush was laughed off the stage 16 years ago.
Hillary, failing to learn from her own husband's successes, has resorted to absurd and empty bullying on the one hand, and serene declarations of unreality on the other to manufacture the impression that she's winning. In the meantime, the press has almost completely moved on from her campaign, the McCain campaign has focused on Obama, and the rest of the country is getting on with it. It seems she literally will be standing behind Obama at the inaguration still claiming she "won" the popular vote, or that she's ahead in Electoral College votes, or that Michigan and Florida weren't properly counted -- rejecting a compromise to seat Michigan where Obama wasn't on the ballot at the same time that she's demanding they be seated.
It's time to stop taking the Hillary campaign seriously. Obama has the majority of the pledged delegates. There is now absolutely nothing Hillary can do, no contest she could possibly win, that would put her over the top on that. And once the final round of primaries is concluded, I do believe that even if FL and MI are seated, she still won't have a majority. The Super Delegates are falling to Obama one after the other.
And soon her rallies, which draw spectators in the dozens, will become the laughingstock of the party, then the nation. Give that woman a horse and a lance, and a windmill to tilt at. She's lost her mind.
Is this how she wanted to end her political legacy? The butt of a thousand jokes about not knowing when to quit? Not being able to understand the rules? We have a President who will be reviled through all of history for his butt-headed ignorance and stubbornness in "creating his own reality." And she's obscenely eager to follow in his footsteps as the Presidential Candidate who couldn't figure out the rules, couldn't win the important battles, and couldn't figure out when she'd lost her visible means of support.
And 2012? Give me a break! If Clinton's plan is to run in 2012 she'd better be shoring up her conservative credentials. Because she won't be running as the Democratic candidate.