Donna Brazile Calls For An End, Says It Has Nothing To Do With Sexism

Democratic activist Donna Brazile calls for an end to the race after June 3rd, saying Hillary's willingness to go beyond the end of the primary season is "just awful":

There are some media reports suggesting that Clinton is now willing to extend the primary fight beyond the last set of primaries. That's just awful. No matter on which side of the fence Democratic primary voters have decided to stand, a convention battle is not in the party's best interests.

Democrats are eager to win this year, and it's time for the noble warriors who are backing the candidates to take their aim or their political swords and focus on John McCain and his allies. It's time to rally around the nominee as soon as the fourth day of June breaks upon the horizon.

Why not? What would Democrats gain by taking this debate any further, especially when the party is now engaged in the kind of polarizing politics that we once denounced the GOP for using for partisan gain. What can be won by tainting the process, arguing the rules are now unfair, or worse, the Republican rule of winner-takes-all should have guided the Democrats as well? All this fuss is simply about saving face and waiting to see whether some awful thing tarnishes the presumptive nominee. It's shameful, short-sighted, mean-spirited and morally unacceptable. Now, I said it.

She also takes on the ridiculous accusations of sexism coming from Hillary, Ferraro and her hardcore supporters:

To my longstanding friends in the feminist community who have called out the media as being culturally sexist and misogynistic, it is time to help educate the American public about the corrosive impact of sexism in politics and elsewhere. But we can have this dialogue without using divisive language and political tactics that further threaten to divide our country and party. If another woman comes up to me in an airport and suggests Obama should wait his turn, I might scream, "Stop it!" This is not about who should be first, it's about who has the most delegates and who might make the best president of the United States.

The most tragic thing I have heard is this need to link the Obama camp to pundits inside the media who have used the "math" historically used to call an election with attempts to push Hillary out of the race. After all, when the senator held a lead in every national poll in 2007, the media described her groundbreaking campaign as being inevitable. No one called that sexist.

That last one I emphasized because I've been saying that repeatedly, all of their claims of unfair treatment and trying to be pushed out ignores the fact that the (supposedly sexist) media all but wrote every other candidate off for the majority of this election campaign, while Hillary enjoyed a HUGE lead in superdelegates over Obama, which essentially stacked the deck against Obama, making him fight uphill with a huge handicap, and he never claimed any mistreatment. Can you imagine if Hillary had started out with the entire Party establishment against her? Can you imagine how much whining she would be doing about that, about the unfair sexism? Can you imagine how much red-faced, finger-pointing Bill Clinton would be screaming about how everyone is against his wife?? They would raise hell. They are already raising hell even though they have received EVERY advantage from the very beginning. And Obama never complained, he never made excuses, he just pressed on against all odds, against the "inevitable", and the people chose him, and he has won gracefully, never calling on Hillary to leave, never declaring victory. The differences between these two candidates couldn't be more different, and unfortunately that is something that hasn't gotten much attention in this race.