Dick Morris to John Edwards: Drop out, you're hurting Obama... [View All]

[Lobster Martini]

(LM: Talk about etching a tombstone before the patient has died...what's the message here? Hillary can't win unless Edwards sucks votes away from Obama? Obama can't win on his own merit, he needs Edwards to drop out? Edwards may not win so he has no business running? Anybody but Hillary? Morris wants Obama to win, so he has the right to limit my choices? What a creep.)

...the practical impact of any support for Edwards is to help Clinton defeat Obama. Polling shows that the second choice of Edwards' followers is overwhelmingly Obama.

By staying in the race after he has lost any realistic chance of winning, Edwards is making it possible for Hillary to win and to bring with her precisely the policies he most opposes: dependence on special interests, a determination to maintain a presence in Iraq and a reversion to dynastic politics.

Edwards deserves a special place in our politics for his efforts to bring poverty to national attention and to revise national priorities to take account of the needs of the poor. But now it's time to read the writing on the wall and obey the verdict of history. It's time for Edwards to pull out.

(Link: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_commentary/commentary_by_dick_morris/time_for_edwards_exit_hillary_barack_fate_in_his_hands)