Super Snowflakes

I'm done arguing with Clinton supporters at other websites.  I don't enjoy it, and I don't enjoy their embarrassingly pompous rebuttals.  The only response they have left is that I don't 'understaaaand' their deep commitments and beliefs, the things they feel so much more desperately than us Obamabots.  They have the underdog shtick down to a fine art, and I'm just not amused by it anymore.   I clearly understand it; I've been a Bronco fan my entire life.

I watched Craig Morton come off the bench in the 4th quarter and score 21 points in 3 minutes as the Broncos came back to beat the Seahawks.  I've seen the Broncos enter the Superbowl as 13 point favorites and suffer the worst defeat in SB history.  And I watched the Broncos enter the SB as 13+ point underdogs to win against Brett Favre.  I know what's possible in the world, for underdogs and otherwise.  So I understand that Hillary can still win the nomination ... with the help of super-human players.

The mathematics is clear.  Clinton can't win unless one includes imaginary numbers or divides by 0.  It simply won't happen.  She's lost.  So the campaign from here on out has nothing to do with us lowly voters.  It is all about the SuperDooperDelegates.  If Clinton tells you that "it's all about you!" she's lying.  If Obama tells you that "it's all about you", then he's lying.  If Andy Hammond tells you that it's all about gaming the vote, then he's stupid, and an immoral little shit stain on the underwear of bad fart Republicant politics.  It isn't about us anymore.  In the wildest numeric fantasies possible, Hillary Clinton remains a viable candidate.  But those fantasies are the anathema of the reality based community.  She can win, but only if her Craig Morton or John Elway comes off the bench.  She needs the Supers to do her bidding.  She won't win without them, and we all know it.

Blue Texan, at Firedoglake spills an appeal that can't help but mirror:  Dear Superdelegates

OK, OK, you've made your point. We get it. You're super powerful and important. We all see that now. And let me just add, personally, that we're all tremendously impressed and awed by your superness. Promise.

Now.

Will you please listen to our party chairman, Howard Dean, and tell us who the hell you're voting for?

I clearly understand why most of the SDs from Montana are holding silent.  They don't want to upset the delicate constitutions of Clinton voters, or enrage the programming of us Obamabots.  They're playing it safe, and hoping that the decision will never come to them.  I see that as, in some ways, humble.  I respect it.  But for pity's fricking sake, this has gone on long enough.  Ed Tinsley has shown a pair, and so has Doc Melcher.   There really isn't much left to say.  These folk are campaigning for you now, superdooperdelegates.  Are you so enraptured with your own special purpose that you will leave Montanans fighting and angry?  Please, make up your minds.

I'm certain that the SDs are just trying to be ... cautious.  But there are a lot of voters like me who are just getting pissed off.  It's over except for these folks, and everyday they vacillate is one more day that I increase in loathing them.  They want state support?  They want to do the right thing by their constituents?  Then make up your fricking minds and end this goddamned thing.   Blue Texan says:

Democratic superdelegates, unless you are the biggest attention whores/megalomaniacs on the planet, there's no good reason why you can't tell us who you're with now. We've been looking at these candidates for 13 months, we've seen them from every angle imaginable, we know more about them then we knew about John Kerry, Al Gore and Bill Clinton. And there's nothing Guam or Puerto Rico or South Dakota is going to tell us that we didn't already know.

Show us your cards. Give it up.

Governor Schweitzer and Senator Tester, we are Montanans.  Most of us don't have time for your little power games.  If you want Hillary, go with Hillary.  If you prefer Barack, then fracking say so.  Put an end to this thing ... now ... before we end up with the inevitable President Gelding McCan't.  And Senator Baucus, you do whatever you think will favor you.  Montana expects little else.  But would you please just make a choice so that we don't suffer for your status as a special little snowflake?

(Everything I've just said as an aside, I actually look forward to the campaigns coming to Montana just to woo the SDs.  The state will make money and won't that be grand!  It won't change a damn thing, but it will help our economy ... for a while.)

Comments

[Shane C. Mason]

I was going to say all that, but not as forcefully. I am glad that you did it. Thanks.