And So, It Ends

[Prophet 451]

With the decision by the Rules & Bylaws Committee, Hillary now has three options:

1) Bow out gracefully. Well, for a given value of "graceful" anyway. No-one would blame her at this point, it's been a bruising fight and she gave it everything she had but lost to teh better contender. No shame in that.

2) Hang around until the convention. I'd call this the Huckabee approach but I don't want to insult Hillary. If she wants to stay in to steer the debate or for the sake of her supporters or even just for the sake of going the distance and she does so without tearing down Obama, I don't think anyone would begrudge her that. It would help if she endorses Obama when the time comes.

3) Keep campaigning. This is the worst case scenario and really, there would be no excuse for it. The RBC compromise was more than generous, the superdelegates won't back her (and a great many of them now publically back Obama). Campaigning in the manner she has been all the way to the convention (or even after) would be nothing more than kneecapping Obama and we would have a right to call it what it would be, sabotage.