What Hillary should have done back on May 13

[smoogatz]

She should have gotten up in front of the TeeVee cameras and addressed her loyalists on the subject of race. She should have said something like this: "If you think I'm the better candidate because you think I'll be a better leader and you agree with my positions on the issues, then I urge you to go out and vote for me, and I thank you. But if you're voting for me because you can't or won't cast your vote for a black person, you should just stay home. I want to win, but I don't need your vote that badly, and I'm not going to tolerate even the appearance that my campaign is encouraging or embracing racism in order to win a few delegates."

If she'd said this, or anything remotely like it, she'd be everybody's top pick for VP right now—even the most rabidly anti-Hillary Obamites (me among them) would have revised their opinion of her if she'd made this gesture. Too late now, of course, after the Kennedy truth-telling moment. Screw her.

[JVS]

1. And snub all those "hard-working" voters? Not a chance!

[smoogatz]

2. Well, exactly.

It's always interesting when the political calculators mis-calculate.