I Want Whatever This Guy’s Smoking
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew
One of Josh Marshall’s more delusional readers writes him an email:
Many Clinton supporters find the current attempts to muscle her out of the race despicable. Maybe now is the time for Obama to take one for the team and accept her offer of the VP slot. It is the position he is better qualified for, would end a situation that is supposedly hurting the party, and would put him in a better position to run next time. Clinton has no “next time,” so it makes more sense for Obama to be the one to step aside.
I guess this could’ve been a joke, in which case I’ll join Josh in looking a bit foolish for taking it seriously. But could some of the Clinton supporters out there genuinely believe that the candidate with an insurmountable pledged delegate lead, a slowly coalescing majority of the party elite, and a current majority in popular polling ought to step aside because “Clinton has no ‘next time’”? Crazier arguments have been made in this election cycle.
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