Naturally, for Hillary's supporters this is a tough pill.  In the alternative it means slicing and dicing it, a million ways, as to come up with good reasons why Hillary must stay in the race. And that is merely on a statistical level.  Yet, Hillary is missing the popular vote, the delegate vote, and the states.  Importantly, the Super Delegate are dripping away to Obama.  On a national level Hillary's slip continues.  Thus, throwing a wrench in the assertion "Hillary is more electable than Obama."  We certainly can't assume that since Hillary won states like N.Y. that these states would go republican should another democrat be on the ticket.  That would mean states like N.Y. would ignore their 20 plus year trend of pulling for the democratic ticket.  In most of Hillary's victories her advantage has not been double digit.  Thus, in most of her victories we don't see a huge degree of democratic Obama rejection which could be translated into a loss should Obama be our candidate.  Further killing this argument is Clinton's promises that she will do everything within her power to insure Obama's victory should he be the candidate.  

Some may take solice in the PA victory.  Yet, Hillary was almost 20% ahead of Obama just weeks ago.  The final tally has her at between 9% and 10%.  That is not an upward trend.  Moreover, her biggest assets, Nutter and Rendell, have both said they will do the same for Obama should he be the candidate.  

Bottom line, at this point Hillary would need to win 71% of the delegates from the remaining races and/or get the Super Delegates to do what they have been refusing to do since Iowa - move back to Hillary.  

There are a million good reasons for Hillary's supporters to want her, and only her.  "Damn the torpedoes!"  Likewise, there are a million good reasons why I should want to win this week's Power-Ball lottery.  Yet, I have done the math and will be going to work like a diligent worker bee.  If Hillary's supporters support her candidacy because they want what is best for America then the big question looms - Will maintaining this path merely insure we get another 4/8 years of Bush/McCain?

To claim there is some path to victory for Hillary would require one to ignore gravity.  Hillary's supporters have been forced into positions such as "Texas's rules should be ignored" as to claim she won in that state.  Recently, it has been suggested we should simply "forget the democratic party rules and do our analysis using the Republicans way of counting delegates.  Such arguments mean ignoring rules which have been around since 1968.  We can suggest that the Super Delegates simply decide what is "best" and ignore the will of the people.  An idea, should it happen, which would be suicidal for the democratic ticket.  McCain's justifiable rallying call will be "my opponent was rejected by the popular democratic vote and yet, she wants us to select her?"  This does not even begin to address the mass of voters who will return this slap in the face by going to the movies rather than the polls on election day.

We can also try and bring FL and MI back into the fold.  This would mean ignoring the very rules to which all candidates agreed upon because the "loser" didn't like the result.  It troubles everyone that two big states were punished.  Yet, to do otherwise would mean ignoring the "game rules" and creating nothing short of chaos in 2012 when all the states realize they too can do what they please despite the clear and well settled rules.  Is that what we really want for our candidate?

If you despise the war, the economic slide, the lack of health care, Bush, our use of torture, etc. you naturally want either Hillary or Obama.  Yet, by supporting Hillary, to the bitter end, are we throwing the baby out with the bath water?  

It takes big people, parties, and supporters to muscle together a win.  Yet, it takes even a bigger person to realize they are wrong, have lost, and must know face the facts and support the party.  Hillary can leave the race on the most positive of notes.  She can say "I won in PA and yet, I realize the math and necessity to back our party's candidate."  It will secure her place in history and provide us with the best chance to win in November.  Otherwise we will help insure McCain wins as we look for the fumble and ignore gravity.  I will not accept years more of this crap while we spend the next 4/8 years pointing fingers.  It is time to think about this, maybe recommend we all think about this.  Maybe it is a good time to stop the echo chamber (I'm more guilty than the next on this)  and give it a thought before we simply set up a McCain victory. This is your call to action....make sure Hillary does the right thing...voice your opinion to her.