What MORE do you think HRC is going to gain by staying in this?

Dozens of male candidates drop out of the campaign every year. So how, exactly, is she going to prove she's "as tough as the guys" by staying in this?

Look if the point is to prove she's tougher than the men, fine, by all means continue. But if the point is just to prove she's as tough as the guys, then she's already proven that, drop out already.

Everyone does understand a lot of people don't mean EVERYTHING they're saying about her right? And that not everyone's going to instantly regain all of the respect they had for her 2 minutes after this ends right? A lot of women and men have lost respect for Hillary Clinton for good reason.

The best way for Hillary Clinton to maintain her position in the Democratic Party, protect her legacy, represent the issues she believes in and possibly ever have a future in this Party again is to drop out.

The longer this goes, the worse her position becomes. Some people like Joan Walsh want to present this false dichotomy where she continues campaigning but on some mythical, higher level.

Look she's not capable of this. All candidates (male or female) have things they are and aren't capable of. I very much doubt if Barack Obama is capable of really launching a series of dirty attacks on a candidate that lasts more than a minute. I doubt Bill Clinton's incapable of not being the center of attention, or at least trying to be, for more than a minute.

Hillary Clinton is simply, clearly incapable of not campaigning dirty. We all know this. It's simply not in her character. She would not be the first good leader (although I don't put her in this category) that is incapable of this. But that does NOT change the fact she couldn't campaign positively even if she wanted to. It's not her.

So expect more of the same for the next 2 or 3 or whatever weeks until the Party finally realizes what at least half of us know, she's trying to steal the nomination, will continue to try to bring down Barack Obama and won't quit until finally pushed out. Joan Walsh, Hillary Clinton and her supporters can deny this till the cows come home or the moon turns to cheese or hell freezes over or whatever analogy you want. But Hillary Clinton campaigning positively just ain't gonna happen. Mud and more smear politics are.

Glad we're down to this.

As others have pointed out repeatedly, many Hillary supporters and clearly Joan Walsh as well missed the POINT of the "Is Hillary Clinton channelling George Wallace" article.

Wallace was kind in his every day relations with blacks, enjoyed their company and apparently believed little of what he was spewing. He started out as a populist and only threw in the dash of prejudice when it played.

The goal of Hillary Clinton, at this point, is to remake the entire Democratic Party into what it was in 1956. She is not only willing but actively trying to eject young people, educated people and African-Americans from the Party, not because of who they are, but simply because they oppose her.

And her supporters know it. They fully support it. Why do you think you find them on here espousing that Latinos are a larger minority group than African-Americans (which is true) so we should ignore African-Americans? (Her only mistake here one could argue was the treatment of Bill Richardson, which was not a mistake at all but deliberate. Think about it. Dozens of former Clinton supporters and people appointed to high powered positions by them have abandoned ship. Why the sharp attack on Richardson? Easy he threatened to peel off the one remaining minority group she intended to include in her "new" coalition.) Or that young people know nothing? Or that educated people don't really work hard?

When young people and educated people with college degrees also decided to side against her they too became part of the Obama coalition that must be destroyed.

Her comments to USA Today were not some mistake, or carefully parsed message as her supporters would have you believe. They were exactly what they sounded like: an attempt to destroy any and all who are currently opposing her. The reason they were so striking is because they demonstrated this latest phase of her attack on the Obama coalition, not only blacks but educated people (some of whom clearly aren't buying her b.s. anymore) must too be rejected from the Party. She must point out that they don't work (completely untrue) and therefore aren't "real, hard-working Americans."

This is not some last second, running the clock out, Hillary Clinton wanting to prove she is a strong woman gesture. She is trying to fundamentally remake the entire Democratic Party so that when it goes down to defeat, as she is hoping it does, she will not have to deal with the same Party which has clearly grown sick of her.

Instead she can deal with a new Party of just her constituents which she then (incorrectly) believes will lead her to victory in 2012. She has no idea how she will do this without African-American, educated or young votes. She just knows these people currently oppose her and thus must be thrown out.