Memo To Hillary

Dear Sen. Clinton,

Drop out now, before you find the floor pulled out from under you.

I've read your remarks about staying in the race and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. I've read your apology damage-control statement. No need for me to rehash anything; you know what you said. And my head hurts trying to find some rational explanation for something so incoherent and cryptically intimidating.

The only possible translation is this: "Hey, I have to stay in the race because Obama could get shot!" Was that an observation, a lament, or -- gadzooks -- an obtuse threat? Don't answer me.

As for your explanation, reported in the New York Times and elsewhere:

“The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” referring to the recent diagnosis of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s brain tumor. She added, “And I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.”

Apparently, you were also thinking about them in March, as the Times pointed out:

In March, she told Time magazine: “Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.”

We admire your respect and caring for the Kennedys, but I do not see the need to inject Bobby into the observation of why the nomination process has gone on so long.

Maybe it's because he had what you're losing -- an excited, inspired band of supporters eager for a new America. Those kind of people support Obama. You only wish you could motivate people like the Kennedys. Sen. Ted and his folks, however, have pushed you aside. You should've seen that coming after your hubby did his best to minimalize liberals in the 1992 campaign and afterward. Remember the "new Democrats?"

All things come around in politics. All that triangulation has now bit you in the face. Conservatives can't stand you. Lefties hold you a grudge. Griping about the media can't save you now, and surely not when you give them more tabloid material.

It's time to call it a campaign, Sen. Clinton. The delegate math doesn't add up, and your resistance is futile. Curtsy out with some honor and perhaps a cabinet position will await you in an Obama administration. VP? You think you have a chance after raising the specter of assassination?