Crossing the Political Rubicon

Tuesday maybe the proverbial Rubicon. Should Barack Obama win one of the two big states and do well in the other, the race for the nomination will have to be declared over. I know that Hillary is already setting the stage for a protest in Texas -- the reason being that she senses that she is going to either lose Texas or lose the caucus part of the vote. She is not a good organizer -- depending it seems on the party apparatus in the various states. And the trends, even in Ohio, where she still leads, points in Barack's direction. Should he lose in Ohio, it's likely that it will still be a close race. In Texas, the polls say, he has opened a small but significant lead.

Of course, we all know how prescient the polls have been of late. Even in Wisconsin, some pollsters had Hillary up going into election day, and yet he won in a landslide.

You can tell from the desperate nature of her campaign that she knows the end is near. The latest ad, one that raises questions about Obama's fitness to be Commander-in-Chief likely won't help her, but could raise enough questions that John McCain could make use of them. And then we hear that her campaign is suggesting that if Obama doesn't sweep states she's been leading and her supporters say she must win convincingly to stay in the race then there's something wrong with Obama and that the party should nominate her -- even though she would have gone 1-15. That's a little like saying that if the Miami Dolphins knocked off the New England Patriots on the last day of the season, they're the better team and should go to the Super Bowl.

Hillary needs to stop and think about the future. Is this about her or the country. If, as many of us believe, we need to elect a Democrat to restore balance in the country, then she needs to step aside gracefully on Tuesday evening. The time has come!