This is a message to the Hillary supporters who are wondering this:
Yes, it is. But it is time to get real. In November there's a lot more on the line than one person's vanity.
I'm going to start with some facts. The thing that just happened wasn't a football game. It wasn't a beauty contest. It wasn't about yay our team or boo their team. That's juvenile. I've been admonished by several would-be "parents" on this site that it is gauche to say this kind of thing, but the fact is, we were choosing a candidate for President. There were for the last four months just two choices. Contrary to the popular glurge that I hear, one of those candidates was demonstrably better than the other. We never had two excellent candidates to choose from.
Hillary lost this campaign, in part, because she's just not very good at politics. Someone else posted a diary earlier today blaming it on her unpleasant personality. I'd say that's only a small part of the mixture. Hillary's probably no less tolerable in person than many an acerbic old man on the Senate. That wasn't the problem.
Despite her claims of experience, Hillary has actually been active politically on her own (as in, not part of Bill Clinton's Administration) for only seven years. Prior to that period, her most memorable effort at getting involved with politics was the flaming trainwreck of Hillarycare, which doomed the United States to at the very least 16 further years of semi-privatized healthcare living off our body politic like a swarm of leeches. Hillarycare was a catastrophe from the get-go. She stormed into it with secret plans and backroom planning sessions, unveiled it with a flourish and promptly got flamed into oblivion by a group of prepared operators who just had to shoot at the target and it went down.
Her Senate seat was acquired against a really weak candidate at a time when she could ride the coattails of her husband.
Obama is the first time she's been put against a serious opponent, and he's not just a serious opponent, he's a political virtuoso. She never had a chance. This is like a rock-off between Axl Rose and Elvis. At any age.
Now that it's over, and make no mistake but it seriously is over, we're going to spend the next five months fighting against this bunch:
As a reminder, and as a parent of a wonderful young lady I am very sincere and blunt about this, I would like all of the putative feminists who are considering McCain as a possible protest vote against Obama to look real fuckin' hard at this next picture. It is a no-fucking-around kind of picture.
Now, look at these two pictures:
Again. If you are a parent (and I am) you do not want to be putting Unstable John McCain in office. In just six years, one of my children will be old enough to be drafted. No. Thanks.
I've used these images before and I'm fairly blunt about this kind of thing so, please, expect me to use them again with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
But now tell me that in the face of repeated threats by the Clinton campaign to drag this absurdity to the convention, and by all historical precedent almost certainly sabotage the winner's chances in November, and tell me with a straight face that you're going to go into the privacy of the voting booth and punch it for John S. McCain.
Get real.