Ambinder published 7 reasons and Pfouffle set around a memo.
These are weak, very weak.
Here are mine.
- 1. Fraud
Bill and Hillary's excellent fraud that no one should be party to.
She cannot win from among the remaining elected delegates, no matter what happens with FL and MI. To stand in front of voters and tell them that the future of America is in their hands is a F-R-A-U-D. (One that she has already repeated many, many times).
It is also true that her chances of securing the percentage required among supers, is too large to consider a "reasonable shot". - 2. Brinksmanship: the Convention Chaos
If she will not effectively drop out now, when she cannot win among the remaining elected delegates, there is no reason to believe that she will drop out later.
All of her pledges to do so should be discarded, in favor a commonsense interpretation of her actions. - 3. Loose cannon: Bigger rifts than she can heal
She is now stoking grievances that are bigger than she can heal.
Today, she is telling people that she could have won under 'Republican rules'. How on earth is she going to 'bring the party together', when there is no way to 'take that back'?
The same is true for Florida and Michigan. Rather than partly blaming the Republicans for the mess, which might help in Florida, at least, during the general, she is stoking expectations of equanimity that no one else supports... That cannot be undone, no matter how much she protests that she will campaign for unity.
No way to "unring" this bell, once it has been rung among her supporters, right? In yet another contortionist move to win, Hillary's 'Republican rules' presumably do not apply to her putsch-like request to seat the FL delegation. The RNC cut FL's GOP delegation in half .... - 4. Lost Time: Punishing Obama and his supporters to satisfy a selfish power-grab
She may think that the party doesn't owe its nominee anything more than 10 weeks after the convention, but that is seriously misguided.
Obama has a lot of ground to cover. He has to work on the Latino vote in the Southwest. He has to get up to Michigan, which is a big state. He has to pick a VP. He has got work in Ohio.
Meanwhile, in addition to threatening to keep a paralytic cloud of uncertainty until the convention, Clinton is now forcing time to be spent in IN, KY, and WV, which are not likely Blue states.
Those are my top four, right now.
