Why should she quit?

I am powerfully sick of hearing people say Hillary should quit the race. Their reasoning make no sense, and there are plentiful reasons she should stick it out.

Some say she should quit for the “unity of the party.” Since when are the Democrats united on anything? “I belong to no organized political party,” Will Rogers famously said seventy years ago, “I’m a Democrat.” This is the party of George Wallace and George McGovern, and you’re telling me it can’t take a little debate between two people who stand about a quarter-inch apart on most issues?

Some say Hillary’s candidacy is hurting Senator Obama’s standing with middle and working class white people. These are the same people who want to lower the graduation requirements for inner city youth rather than push them to meet higher standards. This logic assumes the kids (and Barack) don’t have it in them to compete and win. It’s the worst kind of racism.

• (If you want a reason for her to drop out, how about this one? She and her husband are now financing her campaign with money he got for giving speeches to foreign and domestic robber barons who will probably want special access to the next President Clinton.)
  But that last point is just my biased opinion. Here are a few reasons why Senator Clinton should fight on as long as she wants:
  This is America. If she wants to run, who the hell is anyone to tell her she can’t? And why shouldn’t the citizens of upcoming primaries have the right to cast their votes in the matter?
• The Democrats are drawing huge numbers of new voters into their primaries. Some go to him and some go to her, but I see no reason not to take her at her word that if Obama gets the nomination, she will fight at his side in the general election; and no matter what the polls say now, most of those people are going to stick with the Dems in the general.
• Finally, you have spring training to get into shape for the regular season. Does anyone think that the Republicans are going to go easy on Barack if he is the nominee? He’s lucky to have someone throwing fastballs to him in the preseason because he’s going to see a lot of high heat come Labor Day. As Gail Collins said in the New York Times yesterday, “Barack looks so tired that he seems ready to topple, but if you want to be the most powerful elected official on the planet, you ought to be able to outlast a 60-year-old woman."

While not personally afflicted, I realize that Hillary Hatred is a powerful and pervasive disease. Those afflicted should focus on electing their man cause she ain’t quittin’.