Politics | 06/03/2008 11:15 am
Death Watch for Hillary Campaign ... Or Is It? by Monica Crowley

Editor’s Note: Monica Crowley, Ph.D.,
is a panelist on The McLaughlin Group, the host of the nationally
syndicated radio program, "The Monica Crowley Show" and a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations.
Everyone is abuzz about the impending demise of the Hillary Clinton for President campaign. They say: She will wait until all the votes are in and counted (which would be Tuesday night). She will give a major speech from her (adopted) home base of New York, which will be gracious and honorable. (Hey, there’s a first time for everything.) She will suspend her campaign, send her exhausted staffers home to the families they haven’t seen in a year, process their expense reports (especially those Dunkin’ Donuts runs through the snows of Iowa) and figure out how to pay back her campaign debt (that $32 million Bill got from the thugs in Kazakhstan would do it.)
But there is one thing we should know by now about the Clintons: Nothing is as it appears.
Impossible delegate math? No problem. Big debt? No worries. Black candidate from whom the Democratic party doesn’t want to take the nomination? More of a problem.
But the Clintons are ingenious Houdinis. They pull the most creative solutions (read: political hits) out of the hat when there is a gun to their heads. They may be cooking something up. They may be waiting for the next political IED to blow up in Obama’s face (and make no mistake: there are more to come). They may be doing both.
One thing’s for sure: After running for the presidency for 30 years (and getting it twice), they aren’t about to become passive observers. They are manic doers, and the one thing they know how to do — the ONLY thing they know how to do — is run for president.
Numbers be damned. They aren’t about to stop now.
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