McCain/Clinton- United They Stand in 2008

I can't believe I didn't see till now the obvious rational for Hillary Clintons outlandish despicable behavior these past few weeks. She knows there isn't a chance in hell she can win the democratic nomination. Even with wins in both Ohio and Texas, she can't win. She can't even come close, yet she has decided to launch a scorched earth policy of lies and smears against Obama.
Why would she do this so late in primaries when even if the hateful mud she's slinging were to stick and sway voters, it is essentially meaningless?

A look at the recent videos of Clinton praising John McCain while dismissing Obama as nothing more than hot air, which looked a lot like an endorsement of McCain, (if you don't vote for her), got me thinkng.
Maybe I've gone mad, but this is the only thing that makes sense.
Because she has decided her best avenue to power is through John McCain
as his Vice President.

A McCain/Clinton ticket would be hard to beat. It would draw in voters from every state, every demographic and be a dream come true for independents.
McCain is an old man, Hillary, not so old. Even if he were able to serve two terms she would be still be raring to go in 2016.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain have both been attacking Barack Obama. Nothing in her campaign happens unless authorized by Mark Penn, her chief strategist.
The same Mark Penn whose lobbying shop is headed by Charlie Black, John McCain's top adviser.

I find this hard to believe as just a coincidence, or that Penn and Black don't have ulterior motives, or that Clinton is too stupid to know what's going on.
Hillary is desperate for power, she will do and say anything to get it, she has proven this already, repeatedly. If she loses the democratic nomination she faces a future of mediocrity as a senator with no major chair appointments, and Harry Reid isn't going anywhere soon, so that job is filled. Just being average is not acceptable to Clinton.
Becoming president, no matter the costs, no matter the avenue, that is what matters to Hillary Clinton.
Her teaming up with McCain in the general is the only possible way she will ever get there. And that is all that matters to her.

I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see any other explanation for her behavior.
I see her laying waste to the democratic party who she probably sees as abandoning her for Obama, by taking this all the way to the convention.
Then at the last minute her and McCain issue a statement saying something to the effect that for the good of America they have joined forces.
Neither of them can beat Obama straight up but together perhaps it's possible. Both Clinton and McCain have sold their souls for power and to not be able to claim that power now is just plain not acceptable to either of them.

•  I don't know how else to explain it

  and I can't for the life of me come up with a better explanation for her willingness to destroy Obama.

  by FireCrow on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:28:36 PM PDT

  •  Ego?

    Talking to my adult son tonight, we were going over the reasons that people run for president. They are probably very personal, for the candidates themselves. Since I'm not a candidate and never will be, I don't have no personal reasons to support one candidate or another, I just want the best president.

    On that basis, I wanted Edwards. He has the right stuff and is highly electable in the GE. I was and am kind of irritated that Hillary and Barack felt they needed to jump in, apparently for reasons of their own personal movie character arcs. To see Hillary not jumping out, in this light, is not too much of a surprise.

    I do get that each candidate must believe in her/his self and what a good president he or she would be. How nice, but what about the rest of us?

    Water under the bridge. As of now, I'm for Barack, and I'm ready for Hillary to retire from the race for the good of the party and the country. But if she's our nominee, she'll have my support big time!

    by DBunn on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:52:12 PM PDT

•  Zell Clinton

  by jhecht on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:32:26 PM PDT

  •  Zellary Clinton...

    by icebergslim on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:43:16 PM PDT

•  McCain/Clinton ticket?

  It wouldn't work.  There would be a reason for 3/4 of the people to go out and vote AGAINST one or the other of them.

  by yet another liberal on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:33:17 PM PDT

•  The reason she is doing this is clear

  She thought she had it in the bag.  But now, her true (selfish) motives are becoming very clear.  She had a plan, and that meddling Obama is messing it up.  Wouldn't it all just be easier if she could just inherit the throne?

  by yet another liberal on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:36:29 PM PDT

•  A bit wacky

  ... but I can at least follow the logic. Let's hope you're wrong (there's logic for that too).

  by DBunn on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:37:22 PM PDT

  •  I just don't know

    how else to explain her behavior. She can't win the nomination, she must know this. So why keep going while trying to destroy Obama?

    by FireCrow on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:40:46 PM PDT

    •  We don't know

      It's frustrating. Appreciate your diary though!

      by DBunn on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 09:25:48 PM PDT

•  I'm so disappointed in her....

  I really wanted it to happen too.

  that speech today sealed it for me....I can't vote for her.

  by DeannaHawk on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:38:27 PM PDT

  •  Well, I had already decided not to vote for her.

    Now I want her out of the party/senate!

    by zreeb on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:45:31 PM PDT

•  She wants to defeat Obama so she can run in 2012

  by hideinplainsight on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 07:55:16 PM PDT

  •  thats certainly plausible too

    by FireCrow on Mon Mar 03, 2008 at 08:10:46 PM PDT