CAN Clinton drop out?

[RichardRay]

I mean, is she constituionally able to drop out? (Her constitution, not our Constitution) I don't know that she's able to do so. She's in a political knife fight for everything she's ever wanted in the world. She feels it slipping away, and it doesn't seem to matter how hard she works or how hard she fights, it just keeps getting more and more unlikely that she can acheive her goal. Her opponent seems to sail on, even though the seas are far from smooth, and she just doesn't seem to be able to regain the pace. Now someone she probably thought of as a stalwart (Richardson) has turned away from her. So, how does she make the call?

Does she just wake up one morning and say, "Oh crap, I guess I'll drop out today."

Do her friends do an intervention?

Does she become a tragi-comic figure like some latter day political Quixote flogging her Rocinante long after the parade has passed her by?

If she really isn't going to make it, what's her exit strategy? I don't think she's got one, so she CAN'T quit.

That doesn't leave us in a very good place...

[Johnny__Motown]

1. No Exit Strategy....... where have I heard that one before?

[C_U_L8R]

2. Psychologically, I doubt it

She's gonna lose ugly.

[LakeSamish706]

3. It seriously is sad and I genuinely feel sorry for her... She was led to believe...

(by this MSM) that she would be the inevitable Democratic nominee, she was a shoe-in and now this... hmmm

[Pirate Smile]

4. She could "suspend" her campaign like Edwards.

[progetto]

31. She should hang in there, but

enough with the McLame praise and the Obama trashing. It's not clear Hillary will support Obama in the general election. She's losing creditability.

[babylonsister]

5. According to this, no, but she's running out of money, too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5201199

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x127700

[PATRICK]

6. She can ease back

on the throttle. That is the most realistic and profitable thing for all.

However it may be psychologically even harder. No way is she going to put a bold face on any pullback or deescalation now. Everyone will know and the collapse will spread the long process of concession will be more drawn out. It is a HUGE campaign though and asking the long shot powerhouse to shoot it between the eyes is the least likely to succeed. She may have to take the slow painful bullet of showing the signs of admission. However, escalating past the point of no return was her campaign's choice. Everyone else was going to suffer. Now it has to brought back home and buried. The first signs of that will leave no one in doubt even IF it truly is a mere change in tactics.

[blonndee]

7. I was sort of thinking the same thing today and actually wondered

whether anyone has even spoken with her about it. I can only imagine how "unpleasant" such a conversation would be and how reluctant anyone close to her would be to dare broach the subject.

Once again, this little Cake ditty comes to mind.

...

As they speed through the finish the flags go down.
The fans get up and they get out of town.
The arena is empty except for one woman,
Still driving and striving as fast as she can.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
And long ago somebody left with the cup.
But she's driving and striving and hugging the turns,
And thinking of something for which she still burns.

No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no line-
She's haunted by something she can not define.
Bowel shaking earthquakes, of doubt and remorse.
Assail her, impale her with monster truck force.
In her mind she's still driving; still making the grade.
She's hoping in time that her memory will fade.

She's going the distance...

[RichardRay]

12. That's exactly what I'm afraid of!!

Well expressed! If this board supported karma points I'd give you some.

[blonndee]

17. LOL. It was actually TexasObserver who said that about a month ago

in response to a Clinton quote, "I am prepared to go the distance."

I wonder where TO is these days?

[Drachasor]

8. Depending on PA, she might be able to drop out then

She can't do it before then, unless there is a radical shift in the polls (but I don't think polls will deter her).

[Yael]

9. I don't think she knows how.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xGsX-R_ZTQ

[Snarkoleptic]

10. The intervention is overdue.

[slinkerwink]

11. I think she's doing this out of anger because she was expecting the party to line up behind her

and they didn't. This protracted campaign season is a part of her revenge to get back at the Democratic Party.

[40ozDonkey]

13. Number Three.

"Does she become a tragi-comic figure like some latter day political Quixote flogging her Rocinante long after the parade has passed her by?"

Right. That one.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

14. All she has to say is

her internal polls show she has no chance of winning and Congratulate Obama on the great campaign and pledge her support to him. Of course, I have no clue how she will repay the money she owes...

[zulchzulu]

15. It's McCain vs Obama, so whether and when she drops out is a moot point

She can go out gracefully or try to destroy the Democratic Party, thus soiling the Clinton legacy. Don't worry, if she doesn't drop out after North Carolina, the superdelegates will make sure she is politically toothless by the Convention.

It's McCain getting his ass kicked by Obama in the election. That's the goal and that's all we need to focus on now.

[matt819]

16. Think about this for a moment

If this is the kind of judgment she shows as a candidate, what can we expect from her as president. Sounds an awful lot like the current resident of the WH. He wanted to invade Iraq, regardless of the intelligence and the better judgment of rational professionals. The results. . . well, we all know how that's turned out.

She's taking the same sort of approach to her candidacy.

[Beacool]

18. You know who doesn't want her to drop out?

Us, the millions who support her. This mantra has become beyond tiresome. If Obama's fans can't handle it, too bad. She has as much right to remain in the race as the Anointed One.

[EFerrari]

19. Of course she does. She has every right to stay in this race

and continue to wreck herself and to wreck out candidate. It's her right, no doubt.

[Beacool]

22. Which candidate, Obama?

Why should she step aside for him?

[RichardRay]

29. Of course you have that right...

just as Ralph Nader has the right to run again.

The absolute fact that I have the right to do something does not make it right that I do it.

[undeterred]

20. Is it the conversation with Hillary or with Bill?

I know some people say he doesn't really want her to win on a psychological level but I'm not buying that. I think he is the one who is less realistic about whats going on right now. He is the one who has to be convinced. Bill still thinks he is the most powerful Democrat in the country and he needs a reality check too.

[AZBlue]

21. She needs help.

Mental health help.

[JimGinPA]

23. I Sort Of Feel Sorry For Her Predicament At Times...

Then I hear her (or one of her surrogates) say something and the revulsion returns.

[blonndee]

24. Right there with you. Tonight I was feeling kind of bad for her

and trying to empathize with what she might be going through and then I read about what Carville said about Bill Richardson and it just reminds me of what she and her campaign and her hypothetical presidency is all about.

[Mooney]

25. YES SHE CAN!

Sorry. I had to.

[JVS]

27. Awesome slogan for Hillary's Primary Exit Campaign

[Drachasor]

30. it's "Yes, she will!

[BenDavid]

26. Nor should she. Stay till the last dog dies and that will be 6/3

hell, who knows, there might be the other shoe to drop on something about obama the whoremedia will not be able to prop his ass up on. Obama told a lie and the whoremedia are protecting him by turning it all about the race issues in america. I thought sure by days end on Tuesday the whoremedia would say this speech was way better then the one Jesus gave and that one was just a sermon on the mount.



Obama contradicts a year of denial

Until yesterday, Obama said the only thing controversial he knew about Rev. Wright was his stand on issues relating to Africa, abortion and gay marriage. …
His initial reaction to the initial ABC News broadcast of Rev. Wright’s sermons denouncing the U.S. was that he had never heard his pastor of 20 years make any comments that were anti-U.S. until the tape was played on air.
But yesterday, he told a different story. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes,” he said in his speech yesterday in Philadelphia.

[quantass]

28. Even her top Adivsor said privately yesterday about Clinton only having a 10% Chance at winning