Twas brillig and the slithy toves in the
Democratic Party not to mention the stupid pundits did gyre and gimble in
the wabe of
Hillary Clinton’s staggering victory over Barack Obama in the West
Virginia primary, Tuesday night.
All mimsy were
the borogoves, that poor loser Barack Obama who ran from the jaws that
bite, the claws that catch, to hide in Missouri behind the skirts of
his mentor, that mommy rath, Claire McCaskill, who cried to her little
Baracky, “Come to my arms, my beamish boy! Beware the Jubjub bird, and
shun the frumious Bandersnatch!”
The man who the
Democratic Party and the pundits have named their presumptive nominee in
uffish thought he stood, the jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came
whiffling through the tulgey wood. And burbled it came!
Hillary Clinton, Obama’s jabberwocky, took him down trouncing him 67 to
26 in the Mountain State home of the blue-collar white worker and
Mountain Mama as rested he by the Tumtum tree.
Here’s the gyre
and gimble…how is it that the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee
could get beaten so badly in a swing state in the midst of his
presumptive victory lap? And how is it that the Party and the punditry
feel like they can through and through the vorpal blade go snicker-snack
and just write this off?
The frumious
Bandersnatch!
The West
Virginia vorpal blade went
snicker-snack
across-the-board. Senator Clinton won 57-34 among men and 70-24 among
women. She won 64-25 among voters who attend church more than once a
week and 64-34 among voters who never go to church. She won 69-24 among
voters without a college degree and 54-39 among voters with a degree.
She won 69-25 among voters who make less than $50,000 a year and 58-34
among voters who make more than that. She won 65-28 among voters who
think the economy is the most important issue, 57-37 among voters who
think the war in Iraq is the most important issue, and 68-23 among
voters who think health care is the most important issue. She won 67-26
among white voters. (There aren’t any breakdowns on the black vote maybe
because they were too few in number.) She won 67-25 among voters who
have a union member in their household and 63-31 among voters who don’t.
She won 56-38 among voters under 30 years old, 63-27 among voters
between 30 and 44 years old, 65-27 among voters between 45 and 59 years
old, and 68-28 among voters 60 and older. Among all voters, 70 percent
want the campaign to continue, against just 24 percent who want it to
end as soon as possible.
O frabjous day!
Callooh, Callay!
It’s no wonder
Obama ran to hide behind Mommy McCaskill and didn’t give an un-victory
speech, poor loser.
Had this been
the first time that Clinton had beat Obama in the must-needed swing
states amongst the must-needed blue-collar voters, the pundits and the
Party might have been able to turn their heads. But this is a pattern:
One, two! One, two! And through and through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, Indiana, West Virginia …
Nevertheless,
the Obama train steamrolls on.
“This race, I
believe, is over,” former Democratic party chairman and Obama supporter
Roy Romer told reporters on an Obama conference call Tuesday morning.
“It is time for the party to unify, to get beyond the primary season,
and to begin the general election.” His words echo those of dozens of
top party figures favoring Obama in recent weeks, despite the
candidate’s poor showing with key constituents and in battleground
states.
The voters'
response?
Jabberwock!