I really don’t understand the rabid attachment she has to staying in the race. There is something really wrong about her pursuit against the math, regardless of how close it is.

Politics is a competition, a game. The fundamental games are classic athletics, good old sports. How can sports help us understand the insanity of Hillary’s pursuits?

In other sports, there is no sense that “this runner is more likely to beat the Kenyans so we’ll pick her for the Olympics instead of the fastest runner at the trials.”

In other sports, you can lose by one-hundredth of a second. You are still the loser.

In other sports, only sociopaths will destroy the team in an attempt to secure their own vanity or indulge their bad habits (think gambling against your own team mates.)

In other sports, you can challenge the rules during the off-season; once the game starts the rules in play are the ones that are followed. You can’t seat delegates when your opponent was not even on the ballot.

In other sports, the referees sometimes make bad calls. But their judgment stands. Otherwise there would be chaos. The people have voted; stop trying to get the super delegates liquored up to support you.

In other sports, you can sometimes win by throwing your opponent under the bus, but it is not an honorable win and you are not likely to repeat this sort of “success” because you won based on chicanery not on strength and core skill.

In my experience, men are much better at grokking these rules of sport, perhaps because they have more experience but perhaps also because their braun is easier to establish without question. Women tend to use a combination of strength and manipulation to get ahead. They make up all these side-arguments and excuses. It weakens their case in my opinion.

Hillary, be a good sport and quit. You’re hurting your team. And a win, should you miraculously and manipulatively get it, will have little honor.