Clinton's 'white' comments part of last-ditch popular vote 'strategy'

Much of the liberal blogosphere is up in arms over Hillary Clinton's comments regarding white, working class voters.

To remove any doubt that her comments may have been misstatements or taken out of context, one need only look at similar comments from Clinton's chief strategist, Geoff Garin, yesterday. Garin was also pushing the "white vote" argument in the campaign's post-Indiana/North Carolina conference call with the media.

So the emphasis on "white voters" is no accident. It is part of Clinton's final "strategy" as her campaign enters its death spiral.

And who else but Bill Clinton to provide all the proof needed that this is, indeed, a "strategy"...

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Bill laid bare the new "strategy" today in West Virginia:

"Don't believe all this stuff you read in the press, she can still win this thing if you vote for her big enough," Clinton told a cheering crowd of over 500 packed into the City Hall gym in Phillippi, West Virginia.

"We are gonna have to resolve Michigan and Florida and when we do she can win the popular vote," Clinton said, quickly adding, "all this raining on her parade is designed to discourage people from voting here. Because it is important not just that she win, but that she win with a large number of the registered voters going to the polls. So the most important thing you can do, is to do that."

Gee, with West Virgina and Kentucky coming up, why would Camp Clinton suddenly ramp up the "hero to the white race" language?

Yes, Hill and Bill and company still believe that by rolling up huge numbers in West Virginia and Kentucky (and holding down the vote for the black guy, Obama) -- and including the Florida and Michigan popular vote totals for Hill -- they can still win the popular vote total and have an argument to make to remaining superdelegates.

Pathetic, I know, but that's the new "strategy," plain and simple.

A friend who was chief of staff for a congressional rep for many years recently told me that he had no doubt that the Clintons would do "anything" to win. And then my friend repeated, "Anything!"

They are certainly proving that. With the Clintons, it has always been "Clintons first, Party second."

As I noted in my diary last Friday, The real reason this race will continue: either candidate beats McCain:

That's why Clinton is soldiering on. She knows that should Obama be the nominee, he is likely to be our president for eight years, at which time she'll be 68, a grizzled political veteran with years in the Senate behind her.

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She knows it's all about now. This election. To be President of the United States with Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate for eight years.

And that is why Hillary Clinton will take this fight to the convention if she is permitted to do so by superdelegates. This is her only shot at the presidency, and she will not stop until she is made to stop.

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Please, superdelegates, at some point put a stop to this madness so we can move on to burying McCain. The only way we screw this up is to take the fight to the convention. God forbid...

She will only stop when she is made to stop. And that can't happen soon enough.