Keith Olbermann is not a right-wing nut job. He is TV's answer to Bill O'Reilly; an intelligent progressive and fervent opponent of George W. Bush; a respected journalist who has delivered many commentaries against the Republican president's glaring incompetencies. And so, when he takes Sen. Hillary Clinton to task over her apparent support of Sen. John McCain, his viewers sit up and take notice.
His opening segment on last night's "Countdown" was absolutely devastating to Sen. Clinton:
Part 1: Et tu Hillary?
Part 2: The Garbage Disposal (Keith's sigh toward the end says at all!)
Hillary needs to stop, take a pill, and think this through. If she continues to tout McCain over Obama there will be huge hell to pay down the line.
Should Obama win the nomination but lose the general election, a Clinton run in 2012 would be D.O.A. If Obama were to win the White House, a Clinton seat on the Supreme Court would never materialize, and a second run for the presidency in 2016 would be a pipe dream.
Part of me thinks that if she wants to throw her support to Sen. McCain then she should "go for it." The Republicans hate this woman so much, they'd abandon McCain in droves if she were to back him over her fellow Democrat. And nothing (NOTHING) would rally Democratic and independent voters to Obama's side more than a Hillary defection.
That said, my heart's desire is for Sen. Clinton - a woman who I admired for a long time, who has been a superb U.S. Senator for the state of New York (indeed for the nation) - be a superb Democrat; to remember that this race isn't about her, and that if she doesn't win the nomination, pulling the rug out from under her fellow Democrats will be viewed in such a negative light that her reputation will be forever tainted.
