The Osterley Times: The Hole Marsh Has Dug For Herself.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The Hole Marsh Has Dug For Herself.

This made me smile. The Washington Post have an article on Taylor Marsh in which her dilemma becomes painfully clear.

In recent weeks, as Clinton's withdrawal from the race has become all but inevitable, Marshall has tried to tiptoe toward leading her followers to accept Obama as the nominee. But every time she suggests that it might be over for Clinton, she is bombarded by comments to the contrary.

"My readers are really hurt. They've got their heart and soul in it," Marshall said. "I don't have that. I'm not angry with anyone. I just want [Democrats] to win."

I've watched recently Marsh attempts to have the mad people who comment on her blog consider voting for Obama and the shock and dire warnings that she gets about desertion from her readers every time she does so.

The problem for Marsh is that she has seen the visitors to her blog go through the roof the more outlandish she was against an Obama nomination. And the diehard Clintonistas she has been pandering to are simply not going to back Obama. They want Clinton or they fully intend to vote for McCain. Their main reason for supporting Hillary, as far as I can tell, is that she is a woman.

And they have backed Marsh as she has name called Obama supporters as "sexist" and "elitist" simply for preferring Obama to Clinton.

So what's Taylor going to do?

After the bile she has aimed towards the Obama campaign I, as someone who used to read her, have no interest at all in what she might want to say about Obama's campaign as November approaches, she has simply said too much and thrown far too much shit for me to care.

And if she tries to support the Democratic candidate, then the lunatics that have been giving her so many hits will desert her in droves as they keep threatening every time she even hints at offering Obama support.

So she really has made a Faustian pact. Those of us who used to read her no longer do, and the people who now read her will instantly hate her if she tries to be remotely supportive of Barack Obama.

She really has no-one to blame but herself for the bind she now finds herself in. She has been pouring gasoline on to the fire and the loons have been lapping it up.

Now, it's payback time.

If she tells the truth about wanting the Democrats to win, her readership is going to fall like a stone.

Listen to this parsing as she tries to explain the Washington Post article to her readers:

However, when I say I'll work against John McCain readers have said that means I'll vote for Barack Obama. So maybe on that I'm splitting reflections.

See, it's clear as muck. She wants a Democrat and will work against John McCain, but don't take it to mean that she will vote for Obama. How is it possible to want a Democrat to win and yet say that this should not be interpreted as saying you will vote for Obama? He's the nominee. Wanting the Democrats to win is wanting Obama to win.

This is the position she now finds herself in.

Sheeez.

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