Hillary Clinton or Ralph Nader? Which Quixotic Campaign Hurts the Party the Most?

[David Zephyr]

When the math clearly shows that the only way that Hillary Clinton can become the nominee of the Democratic Party is through a backroom deal with super delegates (which will never happen either, by the way), one has to ask: why does her campaign continue on knowing they can not win and, worse, preventing our party to unify now against John McCain and the Republicans.

Obama now has over 600,000 more popular votes than Hillary. She can not possibly overcome that staggering number.

Obama has won 26 states to her 14. There are not enough primaries left for her to overturn that insulting number.

Obama has 150 more pledged delegates with another 50 about to declare for him in the next few days.

Newsweek, CNN, The Nation (and more) have been trying to point out the futility of Hillary's campaign with regards to the math. And yet, Mark Penn seems hell-bent to drive this further and further to the point of lunacy.

Even with Rush Limbaugh marshalling his listeners to vote for Hillary in the primaries to manipulate our Party's process...even that can not change the math.

Hillary's argument is now reduced to this:

"I know I lost the popular vote by over 600,000 votes, I know I lost the great majority of state contests and didn't even compete in most of them, I know I lost the actual awarded pledged delegates,
but you super delegates owe me the nomination." How pathetic is that?

So the only way that Hillary can now win is through a backroom deal and if that happened it would bring on such a war within the party that it will make Denver 2008 look like Chicago in 1968 because the youth will not sit by and watch the victor be robbed of his crown.

At this point, I honestly believe that Hillary's impossible dream and continued desire to be president is not just futile as that of Ralph Nader, but that it is more destructive to our Party's chances of winning in November. Hillary can hurt us more than Ralp Nader now. How sad is that? No wonder Rush Limbaugh is supporting her.