Blog Nightline
07 May 2008 8:42 pm by Taylor Marsh
Guest post by Grey
Ariel Alexovich rounds up the blogs for the Times and collects what seems to be the unanimous view of the blogospehere – with one very notable exception:
Blogger Taylor Marsh, an outspoken Clinton supporter, published a vehemently angry post, calling Mr. Russert, among other things, a “loud-mouthed, self-important elitist.” “Whose place is it to announce we have a nominee when neither candidate has enough delegates?” Ms. Marsh asked. “I’ll tell you who: no one.”
If you missed Taylor’s post today, go read it. In fact, go read it even if you already have because it’s one of the sweetest, most satisfying ass-kicking, ever.
The Democratic primary is over. Hillary Clinton might still run in West Virginia and Kentucky, which she’ll win handily, but by failing to win Indiana decisively and by losing North Carolina decisively, she lost the argument for her own candidacy. She can’t surpass Barack Obama’s delegate or popular vote count. The question is no longer who will be the Democratic nominee, but whether Obama can defeat Republican John McCain in November. And the answer to that is still unclear.
This dance needs new moves. And a new abacus.
Jake Tapper has a To-Do list for Clinton. A few of the items will seem familiar to some of you:
4. Argue that Obama should have won Indiana; a post-game recalibration of expectations 5. Point to ugly exit poll data from Indiana showing 50% of Clinton supporters say they will not vote for Obama in the Fall
6. Push back on Obama “achievement” in Indiana that he lost white women by only 61%-39% — as opposed to larger losses in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Argue: What kind of crazy worldview is this?
8. MICHIGAN and FLORIDA …The number 2,025 no longer exists. 2,209…2,209…2,209… Make it a civil rights issue
Gosh, if only Sen. Clinton could think about doing any of that. And if only, when she did, the media were responsive, as opposed to ridiculing, and then didn’t pretend to come up with a To-Do list as though the items were original.
Craig Crawford asks the obvious question:
If Democratic superdelegates truly want Hillary Rodham Clinton to quit the nomination race, why don’t they just publicly endorse Barack Obama and get it over with? There are more than enough of them to make up the difference needed to give him the winning majority. Until she officially loses, Clinton has no reason to drop out. And if this fight goes all the way to the convention floor because Obama doesn’t have the required number of votes on record to formally claim the nomination, the blame falls on wimpy superdelegates — not her.
Eric Boehlert writes about “NBC’s bad week”; Boehlert chronicles Arianna Huffington’s invitation to promote her new book, Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe, and the way she was then summarily disinvited once NBC & Co. realized the book included several passages that are critical of Tim Russert. It doesn’t end there, and it only gets worse.
Jerome Armstrong has more on Indiana and correctly points out that Sen. Clinton won the gas tax debate.
Finally tonight, I want to end with a post by our very own Scan. He’s written about Sen. Clinton very movingly, very effectively, and I think that today is a good day to take another look at The One I’ve Been Waiting For.
