This will end eventually...right?

March 11, 2008

Once upon a time, when the Democratic race was still between eight candidates and not two, Hillary Clinton responded to a question on a televised debate as to whether or not she thought the rest of the candidates were ganging up on her because of her gender.

She cooly responded, "They're not ganging up on me because I'm a woman, they're ganging up on me because I'm ahead."

Super Tuesday came along and although it was way too close to call, no one was surprised when Clinton emerged as the conceivable winner. We had a front runner.

But then Obama won 11 states in a row and started being called a "rock star" in media and again, we had a front runner. A clear one.

But now Clinton has won Texas and Ohio and polls suggest Obama leads in Mississippi while a childhood video and a governor's endorsement is pointing towards a Clinton win in Pennsylvania and once again we're stuck not having any idea of who we might be voting for in the general election.

Now we're discussing a $20 million plan to re-vote in Florida where we already said their vote wouldn't count?

I never thought I'd say this but it's time for one of these candidates to step down in the best interest of the party. What needs to happen is John Edwards needs to endorse one, which would give a significant push to either candidate, and the superdelegates need to go ahead and make some of their endorsements (which will ultimately decide this stalemate) early. Because if things continue the way they are through August, it will start to have an impact on the party's morale.