I have read comment after comment dscussing the reasons Hillary Clinton should drop out of the primary race after failing to win big in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday, March 4th. Comment after comment about the fatigue people are feeling, how ready they are for this to just...be...over. The Hillary supporters are reading all of this as well and they are forming their strategy accordingly.
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Hillary is trying to make herself appear to be a Hollywood monster like Godzilla or King Kong. The little people keep shooting the monster and throwing everything they have at it, but it just won't die. That is what she is trying to convince you is true about her campaign. She sets up a false deadline of March 4th and then she moves it out again. She lets it be known that she is prepared to fight this out on the convention floor to get her way. She refuses to allow rank and file voters to determine the outcome of the primaries (unless the superdelegates seem to be breaking for Obama, then she wants the 'people to decide' and tries to seat Florida and Michigan delegates).
Hillary Clinton is counting on you to give up. She wants to force a Solomon's choice on Obama. She is counting on you to do the noble thing and ask Obama to step aside for the sake of defeating John McCain. She is certain that election fatigue will set in. That Obama is just a fad and that she can outlast you. She is like one of those Texas Hold'em players in the World Series of Poker, trying to bluff you out with a pair of deuces. Hillary knows what kind of human resources have been mobilized by Team Obama for this week's contests. She is hoping that by refusing to go away, she will so demoralize Obama supporters that we will not be able to muster up the same strength for the remaining contests.
So.
Is she right?
Or can we manage to open up another can of whup ass for as long as it takes?