As expected Sen. Hillary Clinton handed Sen. Barack Obama his ass tonight in West Virginia. And then some:Clinton 67%This result was expected. Race played a huge role in the state and the conservative Democrats handed Clinton a victory that means absolutely nothing. Despite tonight's huge win, and despite next week's expected win in Kentucky, there is still no path to the nomination for her, save a super-delegate coup at the convention.
Obama 26%
Edwards 7%
And so, what was her speech all about tonight? Forget about going out with a bang or bowing out gracefully. When Clinton said the number of delegates needed to win the nomination is 2,209, it became more obvious than ever that she is playing the Republican game. She knows damn well...and she fucking AGREED TO IT...that this year the Democratic rules say you need 2,025. Mark my words: She intends to take this all the way to the convention.
John Aravosis at AmericaBlog:
"Go Away You Horrible Human Being"I was going to start to tone down the rhetoric against Sen. Clinton on this blog. But forget that! She is actually on a kamikaze mission...I'm sure of it! If she can't get her way she is going to tear apart the Democratic Party.
IT'S NOT CLOSE. YOU FREAKING LOST THE NOMINATION, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Good God. What is wrong with her? The Clintons and their campaign staff don't give a damn that they are now hurting our electoral chances in the fall against McCain and against the Republicans in Congress. Their campaign isn't happening in some vacuum, and they know it. Our candidates can't fundraise because of her. Obama can't focus on McCain because of her. Obama is wasting money on HER, rather than spending it on McCain, because of her. EMILY's List, and AFSCME, and the American Federation of Teachers and others are wasting their members' money on her now-failed race - money that they could be spending, should be spending, on other real races, races that haven't already lost. She can't win, the math says she lost the nomination, but she doesn't give a damn. She's going to stay in the race like some spoiled hateful egotistical brat.
Why is the media even covering her? The only stories that should be written about Hillary Clinton is how much damage she's causing our party. How she's hurting fundraising at the DNC - they even admitted it, they're not raising the money they need to fight John McCain because of this woman. Why don't you write some stories about how she is hurting our candidates who can't fundraise because of her? How she has forced EMILY's List and AFSCME and the AFT to waste their money because of her. How she has caused a civil war in the Netroots. Five months ago we all felt that we had 3 great candidates. Now, far too many of us loathe Hillary Clinton, and she has done her racist best to ensure that her supporters can't stand Barack Obama either.
The Clintons don't give a damn about our party. Their party, their church, is themselves. To hell with everyone else. I actually liked Hillary up until a few months ago. Other bloggers used to tell me that Joe and I were too nice to Hillary. People just assumed that we were endorsing her. Now I actually loathe her. She makes me yell at the TV like she's George Bush, and no one other than George Bush makes me yell at the TV - until now. I actually can't stand her or her husband any more. I defended her. I defended her husband. And now I'm actually wondering if the Republicans weren't right about them. That's how bad she has damaged her reputation. People who actually liked you, who actually helped you, who actually defended you, LOATHE you now. Call me a Clinton-hater all you like, but people like me were the ones who had your back. And we never will again.
Let me close with what Mike Huckabee just said on MSNBC:
"The happiest person in America tonight is John McCain."
She's no better than Karl Rove and the Republicans.
