As a columnist for The Hill newspaper who is in regular contact with major superdelegates in Congress, let me explain why there is near panic among the supers which I predict will lead to a major move to Obama fairly soon.
Setting aside motive for now, there is one mathematically provable and irrefutable impact of the campaign of personal destruction that Hillary Clinton is waging against Barack Obama. It is this: the road of her campaign leads to helping to elect McCain and hurt every Democrat on every ballot throughout America.
Here is why. What Clinton is doing, which I believe is deliberate but in any event is happening, is to seek to drive as many of her supporters to McCain in a general election.
The best example is her false and destructive claim that she and McCain are qualified to be President and Obama is not. There are other spurious and malicious attacks from Hillary that readers are aware of, which need not be repeated here, which all have the same impact.
From the point of view of superdelagates, and especially elected officials and supers who want Democrats elected and not defeated, here is how it look and why they will make their move for Barack sooner than pundits expect.
Hillary's negative attacks have some short term impact that do not help her against Barack, but do hurt Barack short term against McCain. Hillary may be running the only negative campaign in Democratic political history aimed to persuade her own voters to support a Republican in a general against her Democratic opponents.
In this Hillary scheme, if Barack is nominated some of her supporters would theoretically support McCain or stay home. Similary, as Obama supporters become (correctly) enraged by Hillary's campaign of personal destruction against the candidate (Barack) with the most elected delegates and popular votes, Obama supporters become so embittered by Hillary that a number of them would stay home with Hillary as nominee.
In Hillary's scheme, no matter who is nominated, there would be Democratic and independent voters who have Democratic-leaning views would stay home which hurts all Democratic candidates.
If a Democratic voter or Democratic-leaning independent stays home because of the Hillary onslaught of personal destruction aimed against the Democrat who is winning, those stay-home voters by definition do not vote, either, for the member of the House or Senate, or Governor, or alderman running as a Democrat.
My personal opinion is that Hillary would rather elect a one term Republican of advanced age than a two term young Democratic leader as president. Of course the corollary of the Hillary scheme is that a President McCain would give America the most anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-environmnent Supreme Court in history. But that is not Hillary's concern in her campaign of personal attack and destruction.
Even if this is not Hillary's intent, this is the inevitable, mathematically irrefutable result of Hillary's campaign as she is running it.
Privately, the superdelegates can do the math, and while many lack the courage of conviction and common sense to stand against this, they know it is true.
For these reasons, the supers are in a stone cold panic and will make their move to end this, sooner than pundits expect.
Hillary, on the other hand, did the exact opposite. She voted to invade Iraq but refused to fund the troops once they're there!
I will take a page from Obama's uniter playbook and declare that I will vote for Clinton if she is the nominee, because I still believe the Democrats are better than the Republicans. It's just getting harder to tell the difference between the two lately.
The only thing I was disappointed in was when she said She and McCain had the expereince.THAT WAS A MISTAKE AND SHE SHOULD APOLOGIZE.The rest of the supposed attacks are twisted by the media and talk radio idiots.
If you want Hillary to be President, you should vote for McCain in the
Repo primary. If you want McCain you should vote for Obama in
the Demo primary. And if you want Obama, don't bother to vote
at all, because no matter which way you go you'd be voting for
the wrong person.
Hey, maybe you remember back when you just voted for the
person you wanted to win?
This is being ignored by the national media, but I'm sure the Superdelegates are well aware.
Hillary was a Republican.
Hillary voted for the Republican war.
Hillary voted for the Republican bankruptcy bill.
Hillary embraces the lobbyists of DC just as Bill embraced Rush when he went on his show.
Hillary helping the establishment in order to just get a shot as President isn't hard to believe.
It's true, I tell you, it's true! I swear to God it's true!