It Might Look Like The Morning After....But It Will Really Be High Noon...

I don’t think I’ve ever professed to be a political expert.

Personally, I think the term itself is oxymoronic.
But, I digress.

I have no official credentials or diplomas or certifications that would empower me to assert that my opinions about what goes on in politics have any more weight than the guy or gal down the street.

Or you.

I’ll tell you what, though.

I feel pretty confident that we’re about to find out whether Hillary deserves the rap that she has gotten for years that she is nothing more than an opportunistic, untrustworthy, self aggrandizing, narcissistic glory hog who would stoop as low as necessary or climb over anyone necessary to get what she wants when she wants it regardless of the consequences to God and country.

Wow. Come to think of it, she and Bill really are a match made in heaven, aren’t they?
But, I digress again.

Hillary is about to show us whether she is patriot or princess.

Public servant or public enemy.

A righteous citizen.
Or a self righteous charlatan.

And we find out the day after the Indiana primary.

More and more of her own party’s power players are telling her to quit.
And they want her to quit now, before the voting even takes place in Pennsylvania, let alone Indiana, and the other states that have primaries remaining.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t get the impression that any of these people have any particular axe to grind with either or both of the Clintons, nor do I think that they have any particular personal agenda they are pushing by calling for Hillary to step out.

Looks more like a simple matter of “do the math”.

Everyone who knows or pretends to know anything about the way these things work is saying that, at this point, there really is no way that Hillary is going to be able to get to the convention with a sufficient number of delegates to overcome Obama’s lead and that the sniping, bickering, pinching, biting and pulling hair that’s going on right now and in the months ahead is going to have two inevitable effects.

First, whichever candidate that comes out of the Democratic convention as the nominee is going to be so chewed up by the other that it’s going to take some Penn and Teller-like presto chango to convince voters that the candidate who wasn’t fit to be the nominee is now the nominee fit to be president.

And/or the voters will already be so turned off by the process that resulted in a nominee being chosen that they will likely have already decided to just pull the lever for John McCain.

It’s as if David Cook and David Archuleta suddenly started calling each other names before their performances.

Wouldn’t Ramiele just eat that up?

And make no mistake.
Hillary Clinton can do the political math as well, or better, than anybody in the room.

So it seems logical to assume that she knows that she is going to have to make a very important decision very soon.

She either sticks to her guns, justifying staying in by spouting tired platitudes like “in it to win” and “going all the way for the people” and pretty much handing John McCain the keys to 1600 for no better reason that she simply isn’t hard wired to really put the “people” ahead of her own interests.

Or she puts the pencil to it one last, thorough time, doing the math and realizing that the best way to insure that John McCain doesn’t get the chance to continue the Bush Administration for another four years is to stand up, step up, rally her troops behind Obama and prove to all the Hillaryhaters in the world that she really does have the interests of this country at heart. And that she is dedicated to putting a Democrat back in the White House.

Even if that Democrat isn’t named Clinton.

Not to mention the fact that by showing herself willing and able to put party and country ahead of self interest, she takes a lot of tarnish off the crown she wants to wear and positions herself as a presumptive front runner in 2012 should McCain beat Obama.

Again, I’m not a political expert.
And math has never been my strong suit.

But it doesn’t take a Mensa member to see that once it becomes obvious that there will be no Hail Mary pass that will put her ahead of Obama before the convention, that making that very important choice can be put off no longer.

And the way I read it…that happens the day after Indiana.

The day that after years and years of water cooler discussion about how arrogant, untrustworthy, self interested and/or self important this husband and wife team from Arkansas may or may not be, we get to find out what it is that Hillary Clinton really cares more about.

America.

Or Hillary Clinton.