Senator Clinton Must Step Aside

(I originally posted this at Dkos. Wanted to post it here and garner peoples' reactions.)

Yesterday, I predicted a Clinton win by 5 points in Wisconsin and was lamenting the pause that would put in Obama's momentum.

Thank God I was wrong.

I would like everyone to step back and imagine the tables were reversed. If Senator Obama had lost 10 in a row, wouldn't there be a national outcry for him to step aside so the Democratic Party could unite around Senator Clinton? Would not the Clinton campaign be crying foul and demanding he step aside for the good of the party? Of course there would be. And of course they would.

Therefore, I say it is time for Democrats across the country to begin telling Senator Clinton she must step aside. She has lost the momentum and she is losing ground in the two states she says she has to win. Whereas many were predicting a 5-point margin of victory for Senator Obama in Wisconsin, he throttled Senator Clinton by 17 points! (Even Mr. Kos guessed it would ONLY be 14 points.) This was a shocking win by the Obama campaign, especially considering the bad week he had and the negative attacks the Clinton campaign was throwing out by the minute.

The Clinton campaign has no other option but to resort to a scorched-earth campaign that is only going to hurt the Democrats by dragging out this primary fight. The ads are going to get more negative and the debates are going to be littered with feisty, combative comments from Senator Clinton. This is not good, this is not productive. It needs to end now.

Their plan to fight for super-delegates will be a no-win battle. Mostly because the super-delegates are not going to sink the party's chances by dragging this out until the convention (the only reason people are even discussing this possibility is because the media would LOVE to have a brokered convention to report on) and overturning what is clearly becoming the desire of the voters to see Senator Obama face Senator McCain.

I propose a national letter-writing campaign to Senator Clinton from Democrats everywhere to tell her this is not her time, this is not her election. The tide has changed. She's run a terrible campaign and, unless we find out Obama really is a Muslim terrorist, there's not much she can do to secure this nomination.


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Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

I think he should step aside because he is an empty suit and sure to put CA (not to mention FL ad MI) in play for the Republicans.  I'll sign up for that letter writing campaign.  


I'll vote for the guy, but he can suck my big toe...btw, what happened to the cute lil Presidential Seal he made up?
by BRockNYC on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:32:48 AM EST

Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

so by that standard, you seriously believe that a Hillary candidacy would lose Hawaii, Wisconsin, Maryland, Washington, Connecticut and D.C.?

Please.  Obama won't lose CA or MI any more than Hillary will lose MD or DC.

Meanwhile, neither Dem is going to win Florida.  It's just not going to happen.  Which means we have to pull down some other red states instead.


It's all about McCain/Bush now...
by thereisnospoon on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 02:53:32 PM EST
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Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

Let her have until March 5th.  Her back hasn't been to the wall yet.


by mddem456 on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:42:57 AM EST

Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

Ten huge losses in a row not good enough for you, then?  Well, we'll just have to make it twelve.


by ReillyDiefenbach on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:45:12 AM EST

Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

Oh, c'mon.

Go look at the delegate counter. I'm an Obama supporter, but the polls and the delegate counts are running around even. We're not talking about some lopsided race where there's a clear consensus nominee. We're talking about a very close race.

C'mon.


"Don't let it end this way; tell them I said something." -the last words of Pancho Villa
by shef on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:48:20 AM EST
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the MyDD delegate counter is utterly fucked up, and has no bearing on reality.


It's all about McCain/Bush now...
by thereisnospoon on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 02:54:37 PM EST
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Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

Obama is up 21 and the fourth quarter just started.

Look, I think its over, but it's asinine to suggest that Hillary "step aside"

Just let the voters make their choice, and if somehow Hillary survives March 4th, let her keep on going fighting for every possible vote.

Obama's campaign is about hope. Yet his supporters want Hillary to give up.


by falcon4e on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 12:05:56 PM EST

Re: No, Obama must step aside. (none / 0)

you're kidding?


by Lazeriath on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 12:07:26 PM EST

Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

Hillary Clinton failed to change the momentum in this campaign. Obama won the last two debates and she should of went negative not in the tone she did before the SC primary but a contrast and she didn't such. She could of very well wrapped it up by winning the caucus states like MO, UT, and ND and wrapped up the campaign, they were in her camp. But she didn't go negative soon enough and now it is time to step aside. Similar to what Mitt Romney did. He let McCain off the hook in the FL debate but then went negative too late in the CA primary.  You have to compare and contrast before the momentum gets overwhelmingly in one candidate's favor.


by olawakandi on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 12:13:19 PM EST

Re: Senator Clinton Must Step Aside (none / 0)

Nice try, but no.


by americanincanada on Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 12:16:37 PM EST


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