PREDICTION: Hillary Won't Drop Out After Obama Clinches

[WeDidIt]

I think that's pretty self evident.

It's also self evident that Hillary will become the biggest laughingstock in political history if she stays in much longer than Friday of next week. The late night jokes, the SNL skits, the Onion Headlines, it will all pile on so much that she will become the biggest embarrassment to the Washington establishment ever. She'll make Bush seem almost normal by comparison.

So the longer that she remains in it after Obama has already won it, the more she will become a nobody in American politics.

It's a sad ending to what was probably one of the most promising poltiical careers ever seen. She could have easily ended up on the ticket had she taken a different road, and guaranteed herself the presidency in 2016. Now, if Obama should somehow lose this year, she won't even be in contention for the 2012 nod.

[NJmaverick]

1. If she drops out, then she will have to campaign for Obama

She would sooner rip out every finger and toe nail, with a pair of rusty pliers, than do that

[rox63]

2. Once Obama clinches the nomination

The press should start ignoring Clinton's campaign, since it will no longer be relevant to the General Election.

[Window]

12. That has already begun. No one is paying much attention to Hillary these days.

[WeDidIt]

14. Just the left side of the blogosphere

I think it's something like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

[Richard Steele]

3. That's really looking pretty likely at this point, isn't it? How sad. nm

[KittyWampus]

4. Prediction- you're wrong. Why you & other DU'ers feel a need to whip yourselves into a sick frenzy

over Hillary is beyond me.

Even if she doesn't, it'll be at a point where she is just a sideshow.

Move the fuck on.

YOU are simply helping her garner more attention.

[crankychatter]

5. deleted (mission accomplished)

:-)

[WeDidIt]

8. Thanks bruddah (it is bruddah).

My fingers go all qwerty on this typing gizmo.

[crankychatter]

15. I sometimes drool on the keyboard and wake up with

QWERT tattooed to my left cheek

[theboss]

6. She's not going to drop out if he wins in November

I fully expect to see her standing in front of the Capitol in January of 2009 demanding that Florida's delegation get credentialed.

[WeDidIt]

7. "SHAME ON YOU, BARACK OBAMA"

I can hear it now...

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. But hey she's a fighter. So what if it's only for hard-working white people.

[rucky]

9. It's Shakespearian. She's turning a three-act comedy into a five-act tragedy. n/t

[WeDidIt]

11. It's like a God Damned Greek Tragedy!

It's Armnageddon!

[arewenotdemo]

33. lololol

[Why Syzygy]

10. June 19th

give or take 2-3 days. She will drop.

[crankychatter]

13. SDs will overwhelm it I suspect BUT... she's going to bargain at the Convention

so we'll have a "presumptive" nominee but Clinton will continue to try to make headlines until August... she won't get what she wants from the credentials committee and her "folk" will raise hell there.

[WeDidIt]

16. A good portion of her own super delegates will jump ship

within the first two weeks after Obama clinches.

They don't want to be on the wrong side of history.

[crankychatter]

26. I'll take your word for it... that would PUSH her in the correct direction

I'll watch and cheer

let's go register some voters

[NashVegas]

17. If Hillary Drops Out, A Lot of Women Will Not Come to the Polls In November

I'm talking specifically of those who have seen other candidates bring it all the way to the convention in the past: they will see this as Hillary stepping back and "letting the boy win," a part of their training many have been fighting against all their lives.

[WeDidIt]

18. That's a meme being pushed by McCain plants on the left side

of the blogosphere.

It has no basis in reality.

[NashVegas]

20. So You Think

[WeDidIt]

21. So I know

The memo was leaked.

[NashVegas]

25. There's Nothing In That

About what to say or why, and even if there's another one that does, it wouldn't be saying anything that HC's voters have already said, themselves, without McCain's help.

Even if - especially if - Obama does indeed clinch, he needs Clinton to remain in the race for political cover.

[stillcool]

31. Good for them...

[Yupster]

22. I think that's because

Obama won't clinch.

Since the Superdelegates are free to change their mind right up until the vote, there really isn't a clinching.

[BlueJac]

23. It's going to be fun to watch...........

her and Bill spin like tops and drag their own name right through the bottom of the deepest ditch of mud. Ta ta Hillary, no VP for you either.

[grantcart]

24. Its over

Beyond the warnings already given by Patterson, Feinstein and Schumer there is another reality that super delegates noted along time ago and is not mentioned here.

Her campaign is bankrupt. No party is going to nominate a candidate that cannot fund itself when they have the option to nominate one that is awash in money.

All of the farcical threads aside Senator Clinton's support has been declining significantly and now in her home state she has a narrower lead that Obama against McCain.

[Spazito]

27. One only has to take notice of the venues in which Hillary Clinton has

recently been participating in to see they have NO money. The locations and events Hillary has been seen are free ie supermarkets, Mt. Rushmore, beaches, etc. It struck me that they are only able to pay for travel and accommodations for a reduced staff.

Her campaign's ability to raise funds has been significantly reduced and that is VERY telling.

[rurallib]

28. New ticket - Hillary + Ron Paul - "They don't quit - ever"

[rucky]

32. this campaign brought to you by Energizer Batteries. n/t

[slinkerwink]

29. her name will become the most reviled name in the Democratic Party

[WeDidIt]

30. Lieberman will be rememebred fondly in comparison to her n/t