Hillaryland Hits Back

And while that signal is going on, why is Terry McAuliffe making the television rounds saying they're still in it to win it? What's going to turn it around? West Virginia? Kentucky?

If there are a lot of commentators out there saying Hillary has a good chance and should stay in the race, I'm not seeing them.

I don't dismiss the fact that Hillary won Indiana on Tuesday, even by 22,000 votes. But as you've heard ad nauseam, it's all about delegates at this stage. Obama's North Carolina blowout and close call in Indiana means he won more delegates than she did, and that adds to his growing lead.

All that kind of leaves me in limbo, trying to decide in which universe I should reside.

"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture on Wednesday about continuing her presidential bid despite waning support from Democratic officials and donors, while some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about the future of her candidacy," says the New York Times.

This is sort of like what McCain did to Huckabee: "Barack Obama hasn't managed after months of political combat to force Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the presidential race, so he's about to try another approach: ignoring her," says the L.A. Times.

A Chicago Tribune editorial likens Hillary to the horse that was euthanized after almost winning the Kentucky Derby:

"There's no reason to wait until August to put Clinton, and the rest of us, out of our misery."

Ouch. Do they want someone to break her legs?

Here's a taste of what Hillary might have faced in the fall, courtesy of the Washington Times:

"A decade before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton admitted fudging the truth during the presidential campaign, federal prosecutors quietly assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury about her work for a failing Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater probe, according to once-secret documents that detail the internal debates over whether she should have faced criminal charges."

As for the blogosphere, the reaction of Kevin Drum in the Washington Monthly is typical: