She apparently can't win it ... but by Ghod, she's OWED.
Clinton says she'll stay in the race - Decision '08- msnbc.comMan - in a way I almost feel sorry for the folks in the Democratic leadership.WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will remain in the presidential race "until there's a nominee." The former first lady declined to say whether that meant through the roll call of the states at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
Almost.
They've done a fine job pushing identity politics - and now it's coming home that it was a bad call. They banked on the Clinton name - and found it wasn't the guarantee they thought it was. Now they've got a racist black as the candidate. (I suppose if through some miracle Obama wasn't available - perhaps a case of "Act Of Oh Ghod Flatulence" - she could step in, but the woman's got enough baggage to overload a C-5. I think they'd find someone else.) And he, at this point is marginally electable. Once people start looking at his record (or lack thereof) and his acquaintences a bit more closely, I don't believe he's going to get more attractive to the electorate.
And he's going against McCain.
Well - it should be interesting in a 'popcorn on the sidelines' sense - but it just makes me think there's something really and truely screwed as far as the Democrats go. The end of the party, perhaps? And if it fragments - what's going to replace it?
J.