In a piece entitled A Victory Plan for Hillary, after noting that Clinton's campaign
the theme of Barack is terrific — and he must be stopped!
Collins lays out the simple path to the nomination for Clinton. She writes
all that’s necessary for her to snatch the nomination is:
- A big, big win in Kentucky next Tuesday. Ideally, Obama should be limited to no more than 100 votes.
- Oregon, scheduled for the same day, inexplicably breaks off and sinks into the Pacific Ocean.
- Puerto Rico, clocking in on June 1, not only gives Clinton a huge majority, but also manages to become a state in advance of the vote.
- Finally, on June 3 as the South Dakota polls open, Thomas Jefferson’s head on Mount Rushmore comes to life and starts shouting, "You go, girl."
An ambitious scenario, true. But nothing less than we’ve come to expect from the most hard-working political family in American history.
So what does this mean?
It means that the Clinton campaign, even after Collins acknowledges it scored " a whopping victory in West Virginia," and has with the 11 million dollar commitment earned the right to go on, is becoming, well, a joke?
Here you have one of the most prominent female op eds in the nation, writing in the nation's newspaper of record, really laying the rhetorical wood to the campaign of the former First Lady and current junior Senator from the Empire State.
Perhaps I am not so kind. Of course if one has decided to continue a hopeless campaign, and wants to have any hope of persuading people to give you money to help retire your debt (even as the process of continuing to spend in order to continue to compete seems a bit contradictory and self-destructive) one must speak and act as if one believes one can still win. Apparently the national finance committee yesterday did not have a "call to Jesus" moment for HRC, because she determined to go on pursuing the rapidly vanishing and mathematically impossible chance of victory. And whatever hope she MIGHT have have - slim to none - is probably now non-existent after yesterday's endorsements by NARAL and John Edwards. And we have already seen the first signs of pledged delegates for Edwards moving in the direction of Obama. If we were to see an increasing number of super delegates moving in Obama's direction, he may well have the 2025 BEFORE May 31, in which case, according to Donna Brazile, there is no reason for the May 31 meeting of Rules and Bylaws, at least, not according to Donna Brazile.
So perhaps Collins' column makes it clear how delusional Clinton's continuing to act as if she still has a chance really is.
Although I do think she is unfair. After all, in the scenario she proposes Clinton could still win if Obama were to get 101 votes in Kentucky. But not if he wins 102.