Counterpunch:Hillary's Berserker Campaign ... for 2012

[PerfectSage]

<snip>Hillary Clinton can not win the Democratic nomination for president. The numbers tell the story. Even with robust victories in Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky, Hillary will trail Obama in popular votes and pledged delegates as they enter the convention hall in Denver.

Any other candidate would have been shamed into dropping out long ago. But these are the Clintons and they have no shame.

So why does Hillary persist? Because she hasn't abandoned her aspiration for the White House. Not in 2008, but for 2012. Here's the perverse logic at work.

If Obama defeats McCain in November, it will take an act of treachery beyond anything even the Clintons have ever conjured from their grimoire of political demonology for Hillary to challenge him in 2012. She will be 69 in 2016, almost ready to move into one of the Beverly Nursing Homes, owned by a company she once represented as a corporate lawyer, aggressively protecting the bottom line against such extravagances as healthy meals, clean sheets and proper medical care for the elderly.

Hillary Clinton is the prisoner of an unimpeachable mathematics. So she makes the most of a remorseless situation by doing what the Clintons do best: commit political fratricide. Quite literally, in this case, by knocking off a brother.<snip>

http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair03242008.html

[hogwyld]

1. Ouch!

that's going to leave a mark.

[Major Hogwash]

2. It sort of makes sense now.

When I first heard this theory, I didn't think it could be true, but after watching Hillary lie about almost everything she ever did, I think it has become her agenda.

[crankychatter]

3. Don't candy-coat it

tell us how you really feel

[jgraz]

4. Dead-on balls accurate.

[PFunk]

5. Nice theory but there's one down side to it.

People have long memories. And I think there will be enough dems who will not forget how Hillary deep sixed the dems chances in '08 to make sure she doesn't get the nod in '12. Infact I wouldn't be surprised if she loses her senate seat in '10 because of this.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. " McCain, whose resemblance to Lon Chaney becomes eerier by the day..."

:O