We can probably all remember that one pain-in-the-ass kid who lived in our neighborhood growing up. The kid who always wanted things his way. The kid who was given what he wanted, when he wanted by his parents. The kid who always displayed poor sportsmanship and would not play fairly.
Unfortunately, he was also the kid who dictated how our soccer/football/baseball game would be played because he owned the ball. If things didn't go his way, he would threaten to take his ball and go home. If he was about to lose the game and didn't want that to happen, he would take his ball and go home. We didn't much care for that kid, but if we wanted to play soccer/football/baseball, we had to put up with him.
One solution to deal with the poor sport would be a grassroots effort by the neighborhood kids to pool their money, purchase the balls, and remove the poor sport's power.
Fast forward to 2008. Through an amazing grassroots effort, the neighborhood kids have taken control of the game. Hillary Clinton and her surrogates can fuss and fume and complain all they like. They can try to be like the poor sport on the playground and threaten to take their ball and go home. The problem for the Clinton team is that they no longer own the ball. Yesterday, the RBC result was proof of that.
Senator Clinton, you can not threaten to take your ball and go home. The game will go on without you. You can just go home.