Bolson on…

“Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.”

–Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

In politics, especially presidential politics, it’s money not votes that is god. If you have enough money, and are willing to spend it, you will assuredly end up with enough votes. Money makes the world go ’round—especially in the not-for-the-weak world of modern day politics.

In the current race to become the presidental nominee for the Democrat party, one candidate has the money and the momentum, while the other just seems to have the increasingly heavy money monkey on her back. No doubt about it, Hillary Clinton is currently being plagued by the devil and the devil is about to deal her the campaign “death card.”

She has the desire to continue. But she does not have the delegates nor the deep pockets of denero that it would take to actually execute a “come from behind” victory play. Game over. We’re now simply waiting for the final ticks of the clock to tick down on the Democrat scoreboard.

According to the Associated Press (AP), Senator Clinton began March with $11.5 million to spend in the primary compared to almost three times that amount, $30.5 million, for her opponent, Senator Obama. But the most eye-catching aspect of Clinton’s campaign checkbook is that she owed a whopping $8.7 million to several campaign vendors at the end of February. Not to mention the $5 million she lent her own campaign several weeks ago in order to stay afloat.

The reality is that if she were to drop out of the race tomorrow, she would either have to pay the nearly $9 million debt out of her own purse, or simply stiff everyone she owes. Caterers… Ad agencies… Hotels… and a long and growing list of other vulnerable vendors. 

Unless she is ready to completely drop out of politics, she can ill afford to do the latter–not if she still wants to run for re-election for the senate should her presidential dreams be dashed.

It wasn’t all that long ago that Hillary had suddenly “found her voice,” more recently she has basically been reduced to searching the couch cushions for loose change.

Politics as usual, in this case, is no more than a case of “Show me the money.” The longer Hillary Clinton remains in the race, the greater her chances are of reducing her debt. She can’t drop out because she can’t afford to drop out. Forget the “fighter” propoganda and all of the falderal, follow the money.

If you want to eliminate Hillary from the race, you have to help her effectively eliminate her list of campaign-related “I.O.U.’s.” One thing is for certain, for Barack Obama to find himself the “last man standing” in the Democrat primary any time soon, it is going to cost him—about $13.7 million by my estimate.

On the other hand, if Clinton remains in the race all the way to the Democrat convention, fussing and fighting tooth and nail, it could ultimately cost Obama the election come November.