If you don't catch the historical allusion you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Bottom line, the Clinton campaign will fight until the last building is leveled and the bunker no longer has access to the surface.
The impact will be devastating no matter how it comes out, but here is what I honestly believe they are planning:
They run and fight every contest between now and June 3rd.
Optimistically then, Clinton could hope to be 100 behind in pledged delegates with enough super delegates not publicly committed that Obama will not have 2025 to win outright.
Then, at the convention, they vote out a minority report on seating Michigan and Florida's delegations which will close the margin in pledged delegates to a manageable gap and increase the number needed to gain the nomination.
At this point the convention devolves into something between 1972 and 1924.
They might very well win the vote to seat the MI and FL delegations and that point the outcome of the convention is completely unpredictable.
All this meltdown occurs in a very bright public place with every network in wall to wall coverage.
At the end, whether or not Clinton wins the nomination, the entire Democratic party will be damaged for a generation, maybe more.
Will Clinton's people get behind Obama after something like that? I know Obama's people, me included, will sit out a Clinton nomination in the general.
There is no graceful way Clinton exits this race. If she were going to get out quietly, in a civil fashion it would have happened long ago.
John McCain is loving every minute of this.