The Real Reason...

Speculation is running rampant about Hillary Clinton's motivations. The damage she's doing to the Democratic Party should, at this point, be obvious, even to her; there's simply no way after this long that Howard Dean will be able to "Yeeaaaaarrrrrrgh!" his way to a unified party in time to win the general election. So, what's her real reasoning? What motivation could be powerful enough to make a rampant ideologue like Hillary Clinton feed her party to the jackals? (I'm tired of things getting thrown under buses, dammit.)

Well, to find out, let's examine the last few months of the Democratic campaign. The funds expended by Hillary's campaign have, by and large, not been restored by donors; the cost of beating out Edwards and the other major candidates thus far has been, for Hillary, an erosion of her funding support that she's thus far been unable to stop.

So, you might ask, how did she keep her campaign rolling? How did she find funding to persist as she has? Well, fortunately, the answer to that, and the motivation that overpowers her party loyalty, are one and the same.

See, a while back, (specifically, in 2002,) John McCain co-sponsored a campaign finance bill, one of the provisions of which states that if a candidate drops out of the presidential race, they're not allowed to raise funds after the nominating conventions to pay back any personal funds they expended in the race.

I trust a light is dawning, as yet perhaps faint, but nonetheless there?

See, Hillary's been keeping her campaign going off the $11 million she's loaned it from her personal funds. Now, granted that, having essentially never held a real, non-political job in her life, basically all her "personal funds" are in reality your tax dollars, it's in fact not so much hers, as yours and mine, but she still feels ownership of it. And she's not ABOUT to write off $11,000,000 without a fight - especially since, if she gets the nomination, the DNC will then contribute matching funds to her campaign, allowing her to pay herself back the funds she took from you once, with more funds she took from you.

So: it is as simple as this: the motivation more powerful than her agenda, more powerful than her party loyalty, more powerful than her political aspirations, is GREED. Good, old-fashioned, lust for money. I hope she chokes on it.