Two Senior Advisors: We'll Tell Hillary To Resign If She Loses Indiana

In a recent, widely circulated New York Magazine piece, it was noted that, "according to Hillary's adjutants, the people most likely to have sway with her on this topic are not party elders at all but instead her fiercest loyalists, those who've won her trust over the years by dint of their unwavering support."

Familiar names from the annals of Clintondom are mentioned: Terry McAuliffe, Vernon Jordan, Rahm Emanuel (likely the only person in this club who is also close to Obama). So, too, are prominent endorsers such as Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell. "If one of her major African-American endorsers, like Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, told her it was time to quit, that would be very powerful," adds a senior Clinton adviser. Oh, and let us not forget her husband.

And in the New York Times this weekend, two such advisors apparently set the terms of their support for Clinton continuing in the race.

Even though Mrs. Clinton's supporters acknowledge that she faces a decidedly uphill battle against Mr. Obama -- he leads in delegates and in total votes -- there is no sign that party leaders will try to end the race by urging Mrs. Clinton to withdraw or urging uncommitted delegates to rally around Mr. Obama.

Mrs. Clinton's aides said they could see no circumstance in which she would withdraw unless she lost Pennsylvania on April 22. Two senior advisers and one close ally said they would urge her to quit the race if she lost Indiana two weeks later, on May 6.

Comments

[joja]

Don't do it, Hillary! Don't drop out!

Keep paying Mark Penn's $4 mill a month salary to lick stamps!!

Let Bill run his big mouth some more -- it only proves that the Repubs were right all along about him!

Loan yourself some more money -- lots of it -- and enjoy going thru the same bankruptcy proceedings the rest of us have to face, thanks to the 2005 legislation you helped introduce and voted FOR, to help the poor, struggling credit card companies.

Inject some more racist, biggoted slime into the race -- encourage some noose-hangings, for instance -- that's your subliminal message, afterall, isn't it?

Yeah, let's further divide the party -- and the country -- along racial and gender lines. That's what you're so good at -- dividing people. You've got 35 years of experience doing it!!

You go girl!

[LightningJoe]

Get ready for Clinton to go negative in Penn. Hard to guess what she might come up with, though.

The "fake professor" charge? Discredited.

No "experience?" Can't believe she'd open herself up to comments concerning her own so-called experience. Not after being fragged by a little girl with a poem.

Another veiled "blackness" attack? Could be, but I think we're tired enough of that, and Pennsylvania voters aren't the idiots who will buy that sort of night soil.

But trust me: she'll think of something. And Obama will respond -- respectfully -- with yet another reminder that he's got Clinton outclassed and outgunned.

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(zzztt!) ...your brain on tv.

[KYJurisDoctor]

They need to tell her to QUIT after Penn. state!

[KYJurisDoctor]

They actually need to do that in Philadelphia!

[Robin1962]

THE WAR IN IRAQ IS HAVING SERIOUS NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON OUR ECONOMY and those who voted for the war (i.e. hillary) should be to blame, in part, for the state of the US economy.

Look how the WAR IN IRAQ is affecting the US economy...

$3,000,000,000� 3 billion dollars PER WEEK! That is the amount America is paying for the Iraq War PER WEEK, money that should have been used here, at home.

Add to this:

Interest. We are financing the war with borrowed money (e.g. treasuries) that carries interest; so in actuality, the war is costing the United States MORE THAN 3 billion dollars PER WEEK.

Higher oil and energy prices. Instability in Iraq is adding roughly 30 dollars per barrel as a premium.

High utility bills. Due to high oil prices, demand shifts to other sources of energy - gas, coal, etc. - and greater demand will raise the equilibrium price of all sources of energy

Our dollar is weak and getting weaker. Since we have a trade deficit and is growing in large part to the rising cost of imported oil, the value of goods and services we import exceeds the value of goods we export. Everything we buy that's made abroad will cost more, Ceteris Peribus, because the dollar is weak.

Lastly, how do you think the world views our country since the argument was made for war? The evidence was weak and circumstantial, yet we rushed into war with Iraq thanks to hillary"s authorization.

[PhoenixtheUndying]

isnt obama leading in indiana?

[dora rice]

THIS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS WHETHER SENIOR OR NOT HAVE NOTHING TO TELL US THE VOTERS. BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN DRAGGING THEIR BUTT AND I MEAN BUTT SINCE THEY ALL GOT ELECTED. SO WHO IS LISTENING TO THEM. THEIR RATING WAS NOT LONG AGO AT 32%
SO WHO IS LISTENING. IN FACT ALL OF THEM GET VOTED OUT COME NEW ELECTION.

[JavaCityGal]

Your rants never make any sense. Did you have a point?

[GeraldineFerraro]

If Hillary looses the Puerto Rico, she should definitely consider resigning.

[NYC07]

No she'll hold out until the Montana vote comes in !

[LightningJoe]

She'll hold out till the HANNA Montana vote comes in!

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Just say no to tv.

[Lindy222]

Does anyone else think this story is just a ploy by the Clinton campaign to turn out her base in Indiana?

[mrJJ]

Well worth the read..

THE MATH – Monday, March 31 – After Texas Counties

Thanks to phrigndumass for the work

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phrigndumass

[WeMustChange]

Hillary should do the right thing and just quit the race. This country don't need any more Clintons or Bush's in office.

[ruthinking]

What Happened?? Remember Hillary's cringe-inducing "I am in it to win." Now it's "I'm in it to stay." Just a little more reality check needed.

[LightningJoe]

Wait a minute -- my Circular Logic Alarm just triggered >> She's staying to stay?

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Ooops, watched too much tv...

[HurryUp1212009]

Because her ego (and her husband) won't let her face reality, she becomes more grotesque every day. It's really quite sad that, also because of her oversized ego, she feels she can't go back and have a distinguished career in the Senate. She imagines her fellow Senators "turned on her", but they simply decided to back someone else, even though she thought she was "entitled" to their nomination, also a figment of her imagination. The Clintons epitomize the past, and Obama the future. Both Clinton's legacies are being tarnished by this "hostage crisis" of her continued candidacy in the face of insurmountable odds. And this canard that voters in remaining states deserve a voice is "a bunch of bull"; she can "suspend" her candidacy yet stay on the remaining states' ballots, and if - by some miracle - she wins enough of them, THEN go to the Convention and stake her claim to the nomination!

[LightningJoe]

And the weird part is, her die-hardest supporters dig in their heels even more, the more outlandish her stop-gap fight becomes. It's as if modern Americans have imbibed too much Republicon Koolaid, and think that believing even harder, is a viable substitute for acknowledging reality. Wake up and smell the coffee!

This is the end of the beginning of the end.

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show the tv the way to the dumpster.

[Norm]

As much as I dislike Hillary Clinton, I think it terribly bad for the process and the states that have not yet voted to pressure her to retire from the race. Yes, Clinton and Obama are bloodying each other, but my sense is that this will subside as the two candidates get closer to the convention.

[cyndeewi]

It is not Obama that is telling her to quit, as she is stating. It is Obama's supporters. She is only going to blame Obama as she does for everything that goes wrong. I am surprise that she has not blamed him because her campaign went bankrupt again.

[Yasir]

If the damage to the party outweighs the benefit of continuing the elections then I’d assume uniting the party’s efforts would be the advisable route. When the cost of a lost ghost compost sobornost then most hosts would frost the undermost post.