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June 06, 2008
Double down
To echo a point made by Christopher Hitchens on Hugh Hewitt: Hillary Clinton may still be the Democratic nominee for President this year.
CH: I have no idea.
HH: There must be a guess in there somewhere.
CH: No, no, I don’t do that.
HH: If you have to…
CH: You keep trying me on this kind of thing.
HH: I know.
CH: That’s the kind of commentator I’m not.
HH: All right. I should know that, because I just had…
CH: But you know, the one time you did make me do it, I said I still thought, and this was way after New Hampshire and all the rest of it, I still thought it could be Mrs. Clinton, and people laughed, okay?
HH: Oh, she may still…
CH: Okay, I still think it’s conceivable that she could rig and stack a convention. It’s thinkable.
HH: Of course it is. It’s the Clintons.
In fact, I will double down. I still believe Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for President in '08.
Related: "Safe" by John McCain.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 6, 2008 05:10 PM
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Oh come now, you just can't admit the fun is over...I will however, watch the convention with this in mind. Fun fun fun!
Posted by: Pogue999 ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 6, 2008 06:19 PM
I admit I want the spectacle to continue. That said, I believe a not terribly careful parsing of everything Senator Clinton and her myrmidons has said points the way to the credentials committee.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at June 6, 2008 06:37 PM
So you figure you she might make some sort of procedural challenge? As if the nomination was not conducted properly? I don't get the impression the DNC really knows what a properly conducted nomination process would look like. They seem to make it up as they go along, without alot of forethought.
Posted by: Pogue999 at June 7, 2008 12:15 PM
Nope. The Clintons are powerful within the Democratic Party, but even they cannot buck the greivance group heirarchy. Black trumps female in that heirarchy. Her only chance of winning the nomination was to leave him bereft of ANY reasonable claim to the nomination. That means she had to win the popular vote and the pledged delegates. If he won either, then she was toast. As it is, he arguably won both. The superdelegates HAVE to vote for him or face losing a substantial portion of the black vote. The Democrats cannot win without a monolithic black vote, so the superdelegates hands are tied.
Such are the perils of identity politics.
Posted by: Terry at June 7, 2008 01:42 PM
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