Hillary Doesn’t Concede Tonight
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary
She couldn’t say it anymore clearly: “I will be making no decisions tonight.”
What’s more…she said that she wants her supporters to tell her what they want. A very shrewd move and my guess is they’ll absolutely demand she gets the VP slot…and she knows it.
Long story short, the Democratic party will be unified only if she wants it to be.
More as it develops…
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June 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I kind of liked her line: “What does Hillary Clinton want?” Usually such transparent and bloated egotism spoken in the third person is reserved for professional wrestlers trying to antagonize a crowd.
In any case…
Obama should call Hillary’s bluff. If a large number of her supporters–say, 3-5 percent of the electorate–cast a write-in ballot for HRC and that turns out to be the difference in an Obama loss, she can kiss her 2012 prospects goodbye; in such an event, she would be blamed for not doing enough to rally her supporters to Obama and essentially become the new Ralph Nader to the majority of Democrats. There’s no chance in hell that she’d get close to the nomination after that. She wouldn’t even be able keep her senate seat.
It’s just a game of chicken at this point.