The End for Clinton? -- Part One of Three

Editor's note. I think you will particularly enjoy Parts Two and Three.

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Well, even though Hillary Clinton won easily in Puerto Rico, supposedly the match-up is finally finalized. Only pro-abortion Senator Clinton has not gotten the memo that it's all over (including her shouting).

It's pro-abortion whiz kid Senator Barack Obama versus pro-life Senator John McCain. Clinton is being advised in increasingly urgent terms that when the last two states vote on Tuesday, pack it in.

Any chances at a last-minute rally evaporated, we've been told repeatedly, when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) resolved the fierce battle over seating the Michigan and Florida delegations over the weekend. The two states had moved their primaries up early in defiance of party rules which led to threats that no delegates would be seated at the convention in August.

On Saturday the party agreed to seat the delegations but cut their voting power by half. The DNC gave Obama a portion of the Michigan delegation even though his name did not appear on the ballot, based on the number of those who voted "uncommitted." The decision was a "compromise" when Clinton desperately needed an all-out victory.

Frankly, I will believe she throws in the towel when she throws in the towel. Clinton is a fierce competitor and no doubt has persuaded herself that she would be a far superior opponent for McCain come next November.

Our task is (as Ronald Reagan famously put it) simple, but not easy.

Sen. McCain has a stellar voting record on abortion and has made it abundantly clear that his Supreme Court nominees will be in the mold of President George W. Bush's selections-- Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. For that McCain will be eviscerated by the "mainstream media" as an "extremist."

By contrast, as we have discussed many times in this space, Sen. Obama's positions are pro-abortion squared. And his anti-life agenda does not end there.

While an Illinois state Senator, Obama was instrumental in assuring that babies who survive abortions do not receive the care that babies who are born prematurely customarily receive to save their lives. For that he will be portrayed by his hordes of media admirers as a "moderate" who will "transcend partisanship" on the abortion issue.

Go figure.

Talk to you tomorrow.

See Redbook, Part Two.