Hillary's Future in the Democratic Party

Someone recently stated that Hillary needs to release her delegates to Barack Obama in order to cement her position in the future of the Democratic Party. Work with me here; if you believe that, send me all your money and I will spend it for you. You have obviously lost your mind and cannot be trusted to spend it for yourself.

I will check my mailbox periodically to collect all the checks you are mailing. A Brinks Armored Car will take them to the bank for me. While I wait for your checks to arrive, let's continue to discuss Hillary and her future with the Democratic Party.

Hillary Clinton does not need Barack Obama and I personally believe the Democratic Party needs her more than she needs them, right now anyway. She can win a Presidential election without the block of voters who support Obama but will not support her. The gotcha is that Obama cannot win without the block of her supporters' votes that he is likely to lose. Her supporters that will not vote for him are greater than his supporters that will not vote for her. It is a numbers game and elections are all about the numbers.

It is surprising that more of the super delegates did not see the aforementioned truth when they were busy lining up behind Obama. It is a testimony to the number of super delegates who do not like the Clintons. It is also evidence that many of those super delegates are not in touch with the wishes of their party's majority. Those super delegates forgot that the final word comes from the masses that vote, not the supers themselves. Many of those supers have to count on the masses vote to get re-elected and some of them are in for a big surprise.

You can stir those two states that wound up with half their delegates being seated any way you want to stir them and I do believe that Hillary would have won the most votes in those states. She did in fact win the popular vote and the majority of the states that really matter in the general election. Granted, a few of those states will fall to Barack because the states vote overwhelmingly for democrats.

However, there is one or two states that he may lose and those could be the difference between election and a concession speech of his own. The Hillary factor could definitely make the difference in a couple of swing states. The first woman President's supporters may make a greater difference that a first black President's supporters. We need to stop dodging that race factor. There are more people in America who will not vote for a black person than there are people who will not vote for a woman.

Are those who will not vote for a black candidate racist… yes! Just like those who will not vote for a woman are chauvinistic. We can make race discrimination and gender discrimination illegal with as many laws as we want, but you cannot make someone who is a racist or a chauvinist walk into a voting booth and vote for a black candidate or a woman if they are prejudiced against either of them. Voting for the candidate of ones choice is something that sets us apart from many other nations on earth.

With respect to Hillary Clinton's place in the Democratic Party, it is cemented much more than the future of Barack Obama. She is solid in her Senate seat from the state of New York and is on some very powerful committees. She is in a position to make herself even more attractive to her party in 2012. The super delegates who abandoned her this time will clamber to her four years from now. That chosen messiah they cling to now does not walk on water and they will realize that on November 4, 2008.

Think about it, if McCain wins the White House and congress is still controlled overwhelmingly by Democrats the gridlock will make the McCain administration seem like a losing cause to America. It is unfortunate that Hillary's age will not let her wait eight more years, but the truth is, her age will be against her, as the age of McCain is against him now. Add that age factor to the male chauvinist factor and she will not be electable in 2016, but she does still have a shot in 2012. That campaign kicks off on Tuesday night in Denver. Expect to see a few protest signs that read that very thing.

Okay, I need to go check the mailbox now for the checks you are sending. If you do not see another column from me you will know I got multiple millions of dollars and Deborah and I are on the beach in Hawaii. Otherwise, I will write again very soon.