Drop Out, Hillary Clinton: The Race is Over and You Have Lost

At this point, you either see it or you don't: Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has no chance of winning the Presidency in any legitimate manner.

What is left? A candidate who was at one point the inevitable nominee is now left grabbing for straws, hoping to play the American populace for fools.

No longer able to win the election on her own merits, Clinton's campaign has decided to destroy the opposition instead. They are working the book of tactics that Karl Rove used to such great success: right on the edge of acceptability, Senator Hillary Clinton distorts the reality of this election, plays the moral high ground, baits her opponent to deflect attention, and then cries "victim" when she is responded to.

In the eyes of Clinton's campaign, she knows better than the voters. Senator Clinton's narcissism dictates that she deserves this election, and she is staying in the race to make sure that the poor public doesn't make a mistake.

In reality, she is becoming increasingly alienated from the rest of the country. The percent of the country that holds a negative opinion of her is at a seven year high; public opinion is turning, and it is doing so fast. The "kitchen sink" has landed squarely in her lap.

Nonetheless, her tactics will continue, and Senator Clinton's most ardent supporters will fall in line with any argument she makes.

To Senator Hillary Clinton and her followers, the fact that Senator Obama consistently polls higher than Senator Clinton means he is "unelectable."

To Senator Hillary Clinton and her followers, that Senator Obama polls nine points ahead of Senator McCain in California means that she (and only she) can "win the big states." (Senator Obama also holds a 17 point lead over Senator McCain in Connecticut; Senator Clinton, three points.)

The only "Commander-in-Chief threshold" we have in this country is the one that takes place in voting booths. Her only hope now is to so thoroughly destroy Senator Barack Obama's image that the Democratic Superdelegates will have no choice but to hand-pick her as the next Democratic nominee.

God bless Clinton's democracy.