It’s pretty much the only one Hillary has left. She played the “inevitable” card, and it quickly folded; she played the “superdelegate” card, and that paled and eventually reversed. Then she played the race card, the “electability” card, the blue-collar card, and even the unmentionable card. Now she’s hanging on to the last vestiges of the “it’s not over until I say it is” card as her “Florida and Michigan” cards begin to fade into the realm of the unlikely.

So now she’s in full swing with the victim card. The campaign has been incredibly sexist, she claims–she’s a victim of gender discrimination! Really? How? Sure, some bozos held up a sign saying “Iron My Shirt,” but that helped Hillary, as have most overtly sexist acts. Even the story in New Hampshire about her getting emotional–never mind that a man could be judged in just as sexist a manner over tears and gender roles, never mind that Hillary got the emotional-manipulation analysis because of her behavior and not because of stereotypes, Hillary made the “sexism” work for her and scored a big victory there. Sure, Hillary was asked the “diamonds or pearls” question, but then Edwards was teased about his hairstyles and Obama for his ties and pins. There is undoubtedly sexism in play, but Hillary has benefitted as much if not more from gender than she has lost–witness all the hardcore Hillary supporters backing her because she’s a woman. And let’s not forget, Obama has been hurt in several states where Hillary supporters have said that they were voting against the black guy. You cannot name one state where Obama won because of the anti-woman vote. Hillary is not a victim here.

She’s even aggressively playing her horrific gaffe about assassination as another example of how she’s the victim, pushing with vigorous force to get everyone to accept the idea that her words were “taken out of context” and that the Obama campaign is maliciously and unfairly attacking her about it–the totality of their evidence being an email apparently sent out by a staffer with the Olbermann screed on it. Imagine the gall of actually bringing up the specter of assassination as an example of why she should stay in the race–and that is not a misinterpretation and it is not out of context, she was listing examples of how past races extended into June as reasons why she should stay in–and then using that atrociously inappropriate remark to attack the man who lives under constant threat of assassination.

Bill Clinton is also playing the victim card to its absurd conclusion:

“She is winning the general election today and he is not, according to all the evidence,” Clinton said. “And I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running. Her only position was, ”Look, if I lose I’ll be a good team player. We will all try to win but let’s let everybody vote and count every vote.’“

Good lord, how many prevarications in such a short utterance! She’s winning the general election? Only if you cherry-pick the polls and numbers. ”All the evidence“? Several polls have Obama out-winning Hillary.

Treated so disrespectfully? Major projection! How many times has Hillary scorned, blamed, attacked, and put down Obama? How many times has she said McCain is better? Obama has been incredibly respectful to Hillary as of late, and especially relative to how Hillary has treated him. And Bill Clinton has never seen such disrespect???

Her only position was to be a ”team player“??? Are you freaking out of your mind??? Is that why she praised McCain over Obama so many times? Is that why she’s pushing her supporters to be anti-Obama partisans? Is that why she’s bringing up assassination? Is that why she’s not bowing out gracefully and shoring up party weaknesses despite having no hope–outside of a gunman’s bullet–to win this race? If that’s ”being a team player,“ I’d hate to see her not be one!

And ”let’s let everybody vote“? You mean like she agreed not to count Michigan and Florida, how she claimed before Iowa that she’d have it all tied up by Super Tuesday? And ”count every vote“? Like all the Obama supporters in Michigan who voted for ”uncommitted“ and Hillary now wants many of them shoveled off of Obama’s plate and onto hers? Like she wants to count all the voters in caucus states? Like all the times she said that this state and that state ”didn’t count“?

In fact, Bill’s whole screed is packed full of this stuff. Absolutely a sight to behold.

You have to wonder what the hell they are doing. They cannot possibly think that they are going to win this, and they cannot possibly believe that they are doing the party no harm. If Obama loses the election without a major scandal on his part, it will be because Hillary sabotaged it for him. Even if Hillary tilts full speed the opposite way and supports and campaigns for Obama after she finally concedes, she still won’t be able to undo all the damage–and I have a feeling that her ”support“ will be far from full-fledged.

Far from being a team player, Hillary has shown herself to be the most single-mindedly selfish and egotistical person to take the political stage in a long time–and with the company of Bush and others like him on the Republican side, that is saying a great deal. That is not sexist–it is based wholly upon Clinton’s own actions–nor is it disrespectful to make note of the plain truth.