George McGovern dumps Hillary, endorses Obama

Sheesh. Now that was fast.

Richelieu at The Weekly Standard blog believes Hillary’s victory speech in Indiana last night sounded almost like a concession speech, and predicts she’ll drop out of the race in a week or less.

I say she stays in, and continues the full court press for Michigan and Florida to be seated.

Your predictions?

12 Responses to "George McGovern dumps Hillary, endorses Obama"

Transplanted Lawyer says:

May 7, 2008 at 1:25 pm

I’m with you. She won’t drop out; she can’t admit to herself that she’s lost, and she’s deeply in debt and needs to exploit her true believers to pay that debt off. What’s amazing about her efforts to seat Michigan and Florida delegates is that it will net her something like twenty to thirty delegates — obviously not nearly enough to put her over the top. But no, she won’t stop until she is absolutely, positively required to do so.
WB says:

May 7, 2008 at 1:40 pm

I predict that the sun will rise again tomorrow…but anything beyond that? You got me.

This is turning out to be the strangest political season I can remember in decades. Good luck to anyone trying to predict or take bets on what happens next. In any event, I am filled with a foreboding sense of dread…

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes…

—Macbeth Act IV, scene 1
Lorica says:

May 7, 2008 at 1:46 pm

I say she stays in, and continues the full court press for Michigan and Florida to be seated.

Absolutely. She has not interest in getting out now, not when she is so close. Her mantra is going to be the same as the 2000 election. Count every vote!!! This is her time, she can’t wait another 8 years of BO wins or if he loses, does she want to run against him again in 4 years. Such craziness. – Lorica
Chuck says:

May 7, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Hill cancelled her appearances and went straight to WVA. She’s staying in all the way to the convention. Obama doesn’t have a sivler bullet or enough stakes to stop her.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

May 7, 2008 at 2:10 pm

I say she stays in, and continues the full court press for Michigan and Florida to be seated.

I predict that there will be a significant change in the way the MSM covers Hilly the Hun’s campaign. Already the “white working class Democrats who won’t vote for Obama are racists” meme is being cranked up in certain quarters. This will only increase in the days to come. If all else fails, they will simply stop covering her campaign and just ask, “when will she drop out?”

I almost feel sorry for the Hun. Almost. She and the Rapist in Chief are now getting what they dished out for two decades. Not to the same degree, of course, but there is still an element of justice involved.
benning says:

May 7, 2008 at 2:59 pm

The longer she stays in the race the better it will be for America. It will help tear the Leftist Democrats apart. Run, Hillary, run!

I think she’ll remain a candidate.
NC Cop says:

May 7, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Your predictions?

“Predictions?…………Pain.”- Clubber Lang (Rocky III)

So we see yet another case of democratic loyalty ala “Joe Lieberman” style with regards to McGovern. Hill was the darling of the party for all these years, THIS was her year. Now along comes Barack and sucker punches her, taking the nomination.

All of Hill’s “friends” have abandoned her to help form an Obamanation. Or is it an abomination? Well, you decide.
Tom TB says:

May 7, 2008 at 6:51 pm

George McGovern lost in ’72 in the greatest landslide in American history, carried one State, MA, and lost his own, SD. Were I running for President, I don’t think I would welcome his endorsement.
sanity says:

May 7, 2008 at 7:39 pm

When will Democrats wake up and see that it isn’t their vote that counts, it is the delegates / Superdelegates.

Is it the vote or the money that counts?

Ask the Superdelegate from CA who is holding out for the 20 million he wants for his vote. He is undecided as yet, cause “No one has shown me the money.”
Public Secrets: from the files of the Irishspy says:

May 7, 2008 at 9:49 pm

You failed me, Lady Macbeth…

It’s hard to see how the former Her Inevitableness can continue after getting crushed in North Carolina and barely winning in Indiana. She now has even less of an argument for convincing the superdelegates to deny the Prophet Barack. (Hey,…
Tango says:

May 8, 2008 at 10:37 am

Am I the only one who remembers 2-3 months back, it was Hillary calling on Obama to drop out?
Leslie says:

May 8, 2008 at 12:02 pm

I have no clue as to when we see the last of Madame Candy Jacket, but this I know: office pools are probably already being set up.

So, just in case ST wants to start one here . . . hmm, goes to wall calendar, closes eyes, spins index finger, points …

Ah. Hah. Thursday, June 12. Let’s say umm, 5:00 p.m., as a tiebreaker. Gives her time for her to get coverage with Wolf, Brit,and Tweety.

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