Originally Posted by contini

This one is great: Drop Out Already, Hillary - Stumped

Drop Out Already, Hillary

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The Clinton quest for "new math" is getting comical. In a race that everyone understands is about accumulating delegates, she wants us to focus on anything but that metric. She's won the big states! She's carrying older states! She's carrying the less-educated-whites vote! She's doing well in hard-to-spell states! She's carrying states where Obama was not on the ballot! She'd win in China! If you took the number of people who voted for each candidate and multiplied it by Pi, then attributed to Hillary all votes won by her husband in 1996, she would win!

Then there is the core hypocrisy at the heart of the Clinton campaign, a hypocrisy she cannot reconcile. She says she is still in this because she wants every last Democrat in every last state -- including Michigan and Florida -- to have his or her say. Then, when that glorious democratic process ends on the sunny isle of Puerto Rico, she wants to have superdelegates overturn the will of the people.

The most astonishing metric of the week, in the aftermath of the conclusive drubbing she took in North Carolina, was $6.4 million, the amount Clinton lent her campaign out of her own pocket, at a time when it is now clear she could only win the nomination through some form of chicanery. This speaks to the unseemly pathologies driving Clinton, her presumptuous insistence that the White House belongs to her and Bill.

It would be one thing to graciously jog on, as Mike Huckabee did for a while even after John McCain had clearly won. But to continue bashing Obama, in a way that undermines his stature as the party's eventual nominee, is quite another. And then to pour your personal resources into the effort is mind-boggling.

Has she no shame? Or is she really vying to be McCain's running mate?