Are Hillary and her peeps serious?

Everyone here's been talking about the daunting math Hillary faces, based on the rules and how many delegates are left.  But that all depends on what the meaning of "rules" is, Camp Hillary is apparently saying.

Yes, the Hill Peeps are now making suggestions that just because a delegate has pledged to vote for whomever his or her representatives have directed by their own votes, that doesn't mean a little arm-twisting can't change that.  What kind of arm-twisting?  Well, they leave that to your imagination.

ABC News blogger Jake Tapper flagged this up today:

In Monday's ed board meeting with the Philadelphia Daily News, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was asked about the basic math obstructing her path to the nomination.

She responded:

"[R]emember that pledged delegates in most states are not pledged. You know, there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They're just like superdelegates."

Really?  They can just overturn the wishes of their district and vote for whomever the heck they want?  I guess they CAN, if democracy has been rendered quaint in their eyes.  Wouldn't that kind of undermine the whole democratic idea?  Hillary's view must be that maybe it would, but she's got an election to win here.  Just clear the area.

Oh yeah, her peeps said these things, too, which makes me think it isn't just a casual "misstatement":

Clinton senior adviser Harold Ickes said, "No delegate is required by party rule to vote for the candidate for which they're pledged. Obviously circumstances can change and people's minds can change about the viability of a candidate."

So this is their new strategy, it would seem.  

"Circumstances" can "change people's minds".  Like … like cushy positions within the administration?  Political favors?  What, Hillville?  Do tell!

No more Michigan, no more Florida, the delegate race is practically insurmountable.  So what do you do?  Change the rules!

Do the Hill People not understand that even were they to succeed in this effort, they would so undermine faith in their own party that….

Well, you can finish the sentence.