top o' the ninth
by YoursTruly
Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 06:51:12 AM PDT
The eighth inning is over and the Obamas managed to rack up two more runs. The Hillarys are up and things don't look very good.
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I'm not exactly a baseball fan. I've been to my share of games, so pardon the metaphore...
George Carlin had a routine about baseball, comparing it to football, "Football is rigerously timed, while baseball can go on forever...." I've heard of games going something like thirty innings on very rare occasions, but a good part of the time they don't even go the whole nine innings. If the home team is ahead at the end of the top of the ninth, they stipulate that the visiters have stuck them out at the bottom of the ninth without even playing. After all, what's the point? But nobody would ever ask the visiting team to forgo a chance to win at the top of the inning.
March the 4th is the top of the ninth inning. There are already people who are insinuating that she drop out now for the good of the party. She shouldn't. It's only fair that she gets her last licks in.
There are two debates between her and Obama, one tomarrow and one next week and these are extremely important to her. She has to destroy him. She has to rhetorically rip his lungs out, disembowel him, tear his eyes out of his head, and throw his testicles into the third row. In other words destroy him completely.
Barrack Obama has won ten contests in a row (eleven if you count Washington state twice), and with the rules as they are cannot lose his lead unless there are blowouts in both Ohio and Texas. As I said in an earlier diary, she cannot win the nomination anymore but she can deny it to him. The Superdelegates aren't as dumb as some here would think. The ones on the fence won't go to Hillary en masse. They know it would be suicide for themselves and the party. If she doesn't suspend her campaign after the fourth, what the hell is she going to do during spring break? I mean there is over a month between Ohio and Pennsylvania.
If Hillary wins the four primaries by five or so points each, how is she going to bridge the gap? If Obama wins the Texas Caucuses but loses the primary by a smidge, will she damand her "fair share" based on the primary results? Will anyone stand for that?
1980 provides a good model. The Kennedy people couldn't stand Carter, and there were lots of people who were "neutral for Carter" who wanted someone besides the president, but couldn't stomach Teddy. It was too late for him.
Hillary has two weeks to basically wind down her campaign in a really classy way. A "victory" lap, so to speak. Right now, what she's running for is the good will of the party, and she can get that, and a massive standing ovation at the convention before returning to the Senate for the rest of her life. She and her husband can rebuild their reputations and spend the next 30 years being beloved by all, like they should.
When Bush Sr lost to Bill Clinton in '92, he told his people "we're going to go out in style" and that's what Hillary should do. On occasion, she's been one classy lady.
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