I am just about done with the worrying you anxiety ridden neurotics are engaged in here lately.
It seems everybody has written either in a diary, a front page entry, or in a comment how the math precludes a Hillary Clinton win but so many people still engage in hypotheticals regarding what they would do if she were to win the nomination.
Why?
Why not just stop it?
If the math is so strongly against her that a vast number of superdelegates would have to vote against their own best interest, if it would take a self destructive maneuver by the Democratic party, if really, it's just not going to happen, why engage in heated arguments about how you would vote if it somehow did?
Do y'all not see that you aren't doing you part to live up to the name of the Reality Community™? You're playing games like Russert with his "If 24 Osama bin Ladens were balanced on the head of a pin in Iraq and you had an army of angels would you send them back in even after withdrawing?" Come on! Plan on what you'll do when Barack Obama wins the nomination. Gear up for the events that probability favors rather than the unlikely. I'll start, shall I?
When Barack Obama wins the nomination I plan on donating to celebrate it. We're having a kid in August and bought a house a mere three weeks ago but I've given when I felt moved to and when my wife gives me the "okay, you can do it." I will talk to random people and ask 'em if they're voting. I'll tell them why they should pick our guy and I'll tell them to early vote if they already support him.
I'll go knock on doors or make calls. I'll talk to people at work (although we're just about a 100% Obama shop). I'll talk to my right wing mom who hates McCain because he's anti-Christian and either convince her to stay home or to vote for Obama because he's not anti Christian. I'll get my uncle who is bipolar to the polls if I have to go to Houston and drive him my damn self. He's an Obama fan but I fear his dislike of crowds would keep him away from voting unless I took him.
And I'll talk really nice to the former Clinton supporters I know because they aren't the enemy. I'll applaud them for supporting a Democrat in the primary and tell them how Obama agrees with her in many ways. I'll remind them that we believe in the same things and that our country will be much better off with a Democrat at the helm. I won't be smug about it or engage in any fist pumping or "Booyah"ing. That would be wrong.
Thanks for making it this far. Sorry for appropriating the title from kath25. If it helps, she's from Austin too so the theft is under the jurisdiction of the Austin Police Department. Give 'em a call if you feel so led.