I don't like going meta, but my previous intention to do some further superdelegate head counting as a follow up to my last diary was rendered irrelevant, at least for awhile, following the surprising results in Indiana.
And it would be great to start turning the page towards the general campaign, but I don't believe this primary season is over, at least not yet. If you ask me, Obama should be in West Virginia right now, campaigning as if Hillary had just whipped him in double-digit beatdowns in both states. Despite Tim Russert, Obama is NOT the nominee yet, until Hillary's campaign is dead, dirt is sprinkled onto it, and its casket is lowered into its grave. And cemented over.
Because of this, and because the tone this day in the liberal blogosphere is so contradictory (not to mention intolerable), can we PLEASE suspend the calls for intra-party unity?
I don't know about you, but I still remember Pennsylvania. 9.5 points, when Hillary was supposed to win by more than that. Hillary's supporters invaded the liberal blogs, thinking they were some small company team that had just beaten the Red Sox in Game 7 of the World Series. Hillary had risen from the dead, and this resounding win meant the end of the Obama campaign.
Obama comes back in North Carolina, winning by a greater margin than Hillary had ever earned since ending her nearly-interminable losing streak by winning in Ohio. Topping that, he came within two points in Indiana, in a race where that margin is made up almost entirely of Rush Limbaugh radio fans.
Hillary was defeated last night, and when her PA win only put a dent in Obama's campaign, Obama, with results in NC and IN, shut her out of every vote-counting metric that could've served as evidence of her electability.
What happens, LESS than twelve hours after the final results come in?
Calls from Hillary supporters to unite, and stop the insults.
Does that sound right to you?
The campaign isn't over, the primary season has yet to produce a definitive, presumptive nominee, and Hillary's boosters, whose collective hubris was undone by the math and metrics of this nomination fight, have the gall to call us Obama supporters ungracious?
Does that sound right to you?
I'm still mad. I haven't forgotten that we were called sexist and anti-American and too radical and too elitist for this country. Do you think I'm just going to forget all of that just because we won yet another nominating contest? Should I expect the same of Hillary supporters if they had won?
I'm not talking about exacting revenge on, or demanding humiliating contrition from my opponent's supporters. What I am talking about is ending the disingenuous and completely premature cries for unity and reconciliation. Not when we've only had less than twelve ******* hours to digest the results from two of forty-eight nominating contests.
Moreover, we get to gloat. Yes, I said it. We get to celebrate our win. We let the whole lot of you spout implausible metrics that moved the goalposts and reset the rules of this race. And we let you do it for over three whole months. Can we get one lousy day? Is that so much to ask from you guys?
All I ask for is time. When I come down from the euphoria of a decisive Obama win, I'll have perspective, and see things more clearly, and Obama will be no less certain of being the nominee then. But until then, DEAR GOD, please, no more olive branches today!