Posted by
The Conservative Manifesto on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:43:19 PM
Dick Morris, former adviser to the Bill Clinton administration,
makes a compelling prediction about Hillary Clinton's presidential
campaign:
it's over.
The real message of Tuesday’s primaries is not that Hillary won. It’s that she didn’t win by enough.
The race is over.
The
results are already clear. Obama will go to the Democratic Convention
with a lead of between 100 and 200 elected delegates. The remaining
question is: What will the superdelegates do then? But is that really a
question? Will the leaders of the Democratic Party be complicit in its
destruction? Will they really kindle a civil war by denying the
nomination to the man who won the most elected delegates? No way. They
well understand that to do so would be to throw away the party’s
chances of victory and to stigmatize it among African-Americans and
young people for the rest of their lives. The Democratic Party took 20
years to recover from the traumas of 1968 and it is not about to
trigger a similar bloodletting this year.
John McCain’s
nomination guarantees that the superdelegates wouldn’t dare. A
perfectly acceptable alternative for most Democrats, McCain would
harvest so large a proportion of Obama’s votes if Hillary steals the
nomination that he would probably win. Even putting Obama on the ticket
would not allay the anger of his supporters; it would just make him
complicit in the robbery.