What Hillary Must Do

This is going to be a short post but I have been spending the morning hearing all about PUMAs and Hillary Clinton and how she might still be a sore loser over all of this. Mark Halperin, just this morning on George Stephanopoulos' show said that he believes we will actually have Democratic delegates saying, on the floor of the convention, that they will be voting for John McCain. The latest offense is that Hillary Clinton was never "seriously" vetted for VP.

First of all, this credibility of the so-called PUMAs is already debatable. If these PUMAs are so in favor of Clinton, why have they done so little to help her retire her campaign debt? I read recently that she still has tens of millions in campaign debt and that she has had very little success in getting it pared down. So, it would appear that these PUMAs are all in love with Hillary until they finally get some skin in the game in which case their loyalty is a lot shallower.

Still, these people also have the right to vote and they are threatening to leave Obama for John McCain. This cannot be allowed to happen. I am getting kind of tired of Hillary Clinton's wistful and insencere "endorsements" of Obama and I am also sick of hearing all the whining from a bunch of knuckleheads who lost fair and square. your girl had a chance and she blew it. get over it. And I am sick of the Clintons (despite being a big fan) and the way they cannot seem to really come across as if they mean it when they "support" Obama. Hillary, it is still not too late for you to be President some day but it will be if you do not get 100% behind Obama now and stop this intra-party internecine squabbling. You have the ability, you just have to want to do it.

And here is how you do it. When you give your speech at the DNC later this week you must say "I support Barack Obama for President and so must you. (Here is the critical part) Anyone who says they support me but will vote for John McCain does not support me, they do not share my views, they do not want what I want for this country. I disown the support of those who would favor John McCain, an anti-choice Republican, over a loyal and true Democrat like Barack Obama."

I know how simple this seems but she hasn't been able to pull the trigger on this. I get that still still likes the fawning attention and I am sure that having been First Lady and the one-time presumptive nominee can be more than a bit intoxicating. Still, she isn't going to be President for at least four years and if I hear that she hasn't done everything within her power to get this job for Obama, I will do everything I can to make sure she never gets the job at all.

I am sick of Hillary and her PUMAs dividing my party. She is the only one who can stop it and as a loyal Democrat who supported her husband through thick and thin, I DEMAND that she make this problem disappear. Before it is too late.