Clinton’s Three-Pronged Strategy to Steal the Nomination

Clinton supporters are already invoking the moral principles of Martin Luther King Jr. to back their demand for new primaries in Florida and Michigan, claiming the civil rights leader opposed supporting “unjust laws.” Clinton’s camp is also framing Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary as decisive, part of a strategy to view popular vote victories in “big states” as the chief entitlement for the nomination, rather than the actual delegate count. But Clinton’s chief strategy for winning the nomination despite losing the elected delegate race is portraying Obama as so weak on national security issues that his election would jeopardize the nation’s safety. To this end she has aligned herself with fellow Iraq war supporter John McCain, and against both Obama and the Democratic Party majority that strongly opposed the invasion and wants troops out now.

But for all Obama supporters fretting that Clinton will steal the 2008 nomination like Bush stole the White House in 2000, there is a key difference: Clinton, unlike the Republican-controlled Supreme Court that annointed Bush, can be stopped.

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