I know. I know. We need to kiss and make up. We really do, but...
I cycle through a very reasoned diary that you might give a look, which has a delegate calculator that shows how nuts the math is for Hillary Clinton and in the comments section there are Clinton supporters suggesting that she'll get 70% in Wyoming and 65% in Indiana and 60% in North Carolina.
And I read and immediately start to pound my fists and yank out my hair and scream, "How the fuck are we EVER going to knit this sweater back together, when those holding the arm and the neck pieces have run off to Mother Goose Land?"
Look, we've gone over the rules when this thing started like a hundred times...
- Delegates count, votes don't.
- Michigan and Florida don't count. Out. Completely fucking out.
- All other states matter, regardless of whether or not they've EVER been won by a democratic candidate... regardless of whether they hold a caucus... regardless of whether they are open to Independents and Republicans. This rule is so VERY, VERY EASY. Look on the license plate... not Michigan and Florida... IN!
- Superdelegates also count, regardless of how they decide to vote.
- First one to 2025 wins.
Everyone signed on.
NO ONE bitched and moaned.
If you can't accept those rules now, go home and cuddle your wooby.
Also, short of a photo of Barack Obama having sex with a goose (and a male goose at that) Hillary is not winning 70% of people, cows, aliens, pacifiers, sock puppets, grapes, moldy toe nails, sugary cereals or Squirmy Rooters in any state after Rhode Island.
And probably not even in Rhode Island.
Then, absent of the aforementioned goose porking (if thats even kosher), she's not going to surpass 65% in any of the above either.
I'm not saying this to be cruel, just honest and realistic.
And she ain't arriving at the convention with more elected delegates than Barack Obama.
That one is third grade math.
So, you want to argue that she's going to find someway to convince all the superdelegates to go her way, lets hear that (though given the superdelegate momentum of the last three weeks that feels a little Wizard Of Ozzy)... or if you want her to hold out in case the goose does honk or quack or or whatever sounds Geese make while screwing, also fine... but PLEASE, Dear God, give us on the Obama side (and YES, I'd vote for her if SHE won) some opening to start the reconciliation (which I admit that Obama and the Obamites will have to make the first apologetic move) instead of insulting our intelligence.
The "We Are The World" moment is coming and I'm hoping (against hope) that most of us can IDENTIFY the world when it arrives.