Why Hillary Keeps Going.

It actually makes me despair when I read bunkum like this:

Obama is getting creamed by the Rev. Wright revelations, even though Democratic primary voters aren't paying attention. It will be quite different in the general, as most of us who deal in the world of political reality know.

Firstly, the fact that "Democratic primary voters aren't paying attention" is proof in itself that Obama is not "getting creamed" by this, and secondly, anyone continuing to support a candidate who is losing as profoundly as Hillary is losing is probably not living "in the world of political reality" and should refrain from lecturing others about the real world.

But Taylor Marsh is simply indicative of the campaign that Hillary, herself, is fighting. It has been called "the audacity of hopelessness" by a New York Times pundit and it's not hard to see why.

Hillary, herself, has spoken about why she keeps going:

"I hear it in the atmosphere," Clinton said of the increasingly loud chatter about whether she should drop out and let Democrats focus on the general election campaign.

"But the most common thing that people say to me ... is 'Don't give up, keep going. We're with you.' And I feel really good about that because that's what I intend to do," she told reporters on Tuesday.

This level of self delusion is simply astounding. But, of course, many of Clinton's supporters couldn't care less about the damage that they may inflict on the party because they have announced that should Obama be the candidate that they would rather vote for John McCain.

And it's hardly surprising that they would feel this way as Hillary Clinton has told them that she is fit for the job, as is McCain, but that Obama is not ready for the job - despite the fact that she has already hinted that he should become her Vice President.

Now, at last, the press have started to write about what many on the blogosphere have been saying for weeks, the race is over and Clinton has lost.

Somebody forgot to tell Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential race is over and Barack Obama won. Obama has captured more state contests, more votes and more of the pledged convention delegates who will help decide which Democrat faces Republican Sen. John McCain in November's presidential election.

The notion that this will be allowed to continue for the next few months is simply hideous, as Hillary and her supporters - of whom 28% say they will vote for McCain rather than Obama - will simply continue to hack away at Obama with no thought whatsoever to any damage they might be doing to Obama's eventual chances against McCain in November. After all, they are not voting for him so why should they care?

But it surely can't be in the Democratic parties interest to allow this whole thing to drag on? Almost one in three Hillary supporters say they won't vote for Obama, so let them go before they do any more damage to the party's chances in November.

Tags: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, US election 2008, Democratic presidential nominee