David Zephyr
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Mon Feb-25-08 10:26 PM
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My Grace & Restraint With Hillary's Moribund Campaign Ends When She Fails to Win Both Texas & Ohio. |
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Edited on Mon Feb-25-08 11:01 PM by David Zephyr
I'm a nice guy to an extent, but there really is a limit.
There is a point when enough is enough.
It's time for a come-to-Jesus moment within the Democratic Party: If Hillary loses either Ohio or Texas next week after this 'last roll of the dice' --- after her being defeated in state after bloody state in every region of the nation and in every bigger routs --- someone needs to take the dice away from her campaign . Even Bill Clinton has said Hillary can not continue if she fails to win both Ohio and Texas. I hope he will honor that statement. However, seeing as to how this has already gone on far beyond any sense of respectability, I'm not sure he will.
My fear is that the parasites like Mark Penn that have sucked millions of dollars from Hillary's supporters into their own pockets as this nonsense continues will rationalize why the show must still continue on after next week. Is there anyone close to Hillary that can tell her the truth? I don't think so. Certainly, no one has yet.
The latest poll by CNN now shows Obama has pulled ahead of Clinton in Texas and that he's cut Hillary's lead by 50% in Ohio.
Any other candidate who had strung up so many consecutive losses would have long ago had the decency to have dropped out and been big enough to endorse the other Democrat. But an artificial date of the Texas & Ohio primaries were held out there by the Clinton campaign as when they would finally actually win a single state. "We know we keep losing state after state every week, but you just have to give us until Texas and Ohio. Why? Just because."
So the spotlight in on the Clintons. They are the ones who have promised to deliver the goods next week. And the audience is restless and tired of watching the loser continue to stand on the stage trying still one failed tune after the next. A very loud groaning is about to swell from every corner in the theater. There will be quaking in the rafters.
And let's get really honest: There will be no consolation prize after next Tuesday. Zip.
If Hillary loses either Texas or Ohio, we will have learned only one painful thing: she wasted one full month of our party's time and energy from unifying to defeat John McCain in November.
Human grace has its limits! Millions of us are quietly losing our patience and good graces with this prolonged, and yes embarrassing exercise in futility. We'll bite our tongues a little longer, but don't mistake our silence for the growing contempt of how the system is being gamed for a very privileged couple who have used up every get out of jail card left in the the pack.
And believe me, there will be no calls for a swan song or a farewell dance from the audience when this stink-bomb comes to an end. Only a very large hook from behind the curtains as the crowds begin to stampede the stage to take the microphone from her hands and give it to the one that actually can perform.
It's time for the pent-up cheering to begin as the headliner takes full command of center stage without anymore of simply pitiful distractions.
I want to rally around the winner regardless of what the loser thinks anymore.
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