The Young Turks

TJD WROTE:

I see the exodus happening as these superdels are switching sides.  It's almost like  Hillary already agreed she was going to lose and said "Let me save face.  Just have the superdels gradually switch to Barack so it'll look like I fought to the bitter end."

I wonder what might be considered the best way to save face. Dropping out after WV, OR/KY, PR or the final conclusion?

There is something to be said for exiting after thumping victories in WV, KY or PR, but every day after May 6 involves the indignity of still running while everyone knows and says it's over.

I don't think she'd subject herself to that merely to save face, since the cleanest departure would have been on May 7.

I believe she's still not given up the hope of being the nominee. How else can you explain her stepping up her futile campaign to have MI and FL be counted as if they had been regular contests? In which other light can you see her race-baiting remark about "working, hard-working Americans, white Americans" (sic!) and her assertion Obama's support among that demographic is weakening?

Were it about saving face, then she'd limit herself to a Huckabeean positive campaign in these days. Clearly she is not doing so. Old habits of throwing the kitchen-sink apparently die hard... 

In doing so, I think she's only damaging her standing in the party. Wins in WV, KY and PR just aren't going to undo that damage. Simply not smart. 

It looks like she's living in an alternate world. Someone from her inner circle should shake her out of it. Chelsea and Bill clearly know it's over if you looked at their faces on May 6.

I think the inner circle must have met on May 7. Hence the cancelling of her morning show appearances. I really don't understand, however, to what conclusion they came as it hardly can have been about them going into face-saving mode considering her latest utterances (or is she THAT undisciplined???).

It's a mystery to me. It just doesn't make sense. I give up trying to understand this and refer to Rachel Maddow's quip about Hillary running a "post-rational" campaign... It's all so utterly irrational.

Or can you provide a convincing rationale for what's going on in the head of Clinton & Co?