When George F. Will is the voice of reason and even my own die-hard Hillary fan mother says it's time for Hillary to let it go, well, it's time. I know, I know, everyone with basic numeracy skills (other than my mother) has known this for a long, long time, but still . . . the idea that George F. Will is making perfect sense and our would-be (but won't-be) Democratic nominee for president is not, well, it's a scary kind of reality and someone (please, please, please Hillary) has got to make it stop.
Here's George F.'s summary of Hillary math:
After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's Zip code.
So, you know, the chorus is turning into the sound of the thunder that must have accompanied Noah's flood - it's time to go.