Reply #9: They could never have gotten away with savaging a candidate this way with anyone OTHER then [View All]

[StevieM]

Hillary Clinton. She would not have been forced out of the race--nobody had the right or the ability to kick her off the ballot. She stayed in because the voters kept voting for her. The people of Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and Indiana had the ability to end this race and they chose not to.

The hole you imagine is a fictional one. There is no great personal tragedy. Hillary has done nothing wrong and has no need of redemption. She has run a campaign she can be proud of. There is no shame in falling victim to McCarthyism. What has been done to Hillary will be properly recorded in history as a national disgrace.

In three years Hillary Clinton will be Senate Majority leader and Barack Obama will be an irrelevant junior senator stuggling to overcome the legacy of his landslide defeat.

Steve