By: TRUTH CAUCUS · 05/07/2008 · AIM: crnctruthcaucus · Section:

TO WIT – IS IT OVER YET?

As the Myanmar cyclone death toll moves from 5,000 to 10,000 to 100,000 (it remains unclear how these things are counted), as the U.S. gives relief money (that it may not have), as a five-hour Hollywood telethon may be the only solution (otherwise known as the American Idol results show)…

As Patrick McHenry celebrates a 67-33% victory over Lance Sigmon…

As Dick Morris predicts Ben Netanyahu will win election in Israel—and then bomb Iran. (This is what we call a “game changer.”)

As Mitt Romney warns “the presidency isn’t an internship.”

All eyes turn to the Democratic primary.

Last night, the pundits called the race. They put on their best suits, fluffed their pocket squares, shined their lapel pins (err…).

Prior to last night, Hillary Clinton was expected to win Indiana and Barack Obama was expected to win North Carolina. That happened. But, for various reasons, the pundits decided the expected was not enough. They had to kick it up. (Sort of like when Charlie Crist drinks Red Bull and…Merlot.)

Tim Russert declared on MSNBC: “We now know who the Democratic nominee’s going to be, and no one’s going to dispute it.”

Mr. Russert, apparently, is the puppet-master of the Democratic Party (when not having off-the-record conversations with Matt Cooper).

Not to be out done by his rival, George Stephanopoulos said: “This nomination fight is over.”

You can’t get anymore declarative than that.

Other pundits chimed in, but it wasn’t enough. More gravitas was needed.

Only the sagest counsel could solidify the media’s conclusion on the race’s end. Only the wisest soul could unilaterally deliver the declarative consensus we thirst.

The man network pundits turn to when conventional wisdom must be set in stone: George McGovern.

“All the mathematics seem to be on his side,” McGovern said of Obama.

But, the telling information comes here:

McGovern, 85, said he told Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, of his surprise decision in a telephone call, and that Clinton made no attempt to change his mind.

“He just wanted me to know that he thinks that Hillary has made a great race and it’s up to her to decide when she leaves. And I don’t argue with that,” McGovern said.

This means the Clintons are working on their end game. (For all future purposes, “end game” is interchangeable with the year “2012.”)

But Democrats should worry 2008 will go the way of 1968.

Or 1972.

I wonder what George McGovern thinks about that?

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