Hillary: The "Big Boys" are "bullying" a woman.
It was bound to be the card she would play. Howard Dean has urged the super delegates to make up their minds by July 1st, which many of us are taking as an indication that Hillary's campaign is effectively over. After all, this is the women who threatened to take this matter all the way to the floor of the convention in Denver, and Dean appears to be indicating that the party is not prepared to stand by while Hillary engages in this kind of destructive behaviour.
Indeed Senator Pat Leahy went as far as to demand that Hillary stand down and start backing Barack Obama.
"There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama," Leahy told Vermont public radio.Hillary has issued her response. She has said that she will not "be bullied" out of the race and is implying that this is being done because she is a woman.
In a conversation with two Democratic allies, she compared the situation to the “big boys” trying to bully a woman, according to interviews with them.No-one is bullying Clinton because she is a woman, but senior party officials are trying to make her aware of the fact that the race is all but lost, and that the more she attacks Obama in the personal way that she has been doing, the more she threatens the party's chances in November.
I don't see why Clinton finds that so hard to take on board.
Howard Dean, who really has stayed as far out of this as possible, explained his logic:
As Senator Leahy says, Hillary "has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to."While not assigning blame, Mr. Dean said some attacks by the candidates’ supporters and surrogates would complicate efforts to unify the party after it had a nominee.
“The tone has changed in the last three or four weeks,” he said in an interview. “And the emotional content has increased to the point where it is in some cases unhealthy.
“If we have an ugly, divided convention, we will lose,” he said. “John McCain is not a strong candidate for president. The only way we lose is if we are divided.”
I don't expect logic to pierce the extraordinary hide of the average Clinton supporter, so perhaps the super delegates should get off their arses and indicate where their votes are going to go by July 1st and put Hillary and her supporters out of their bloody misery.
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