That’s right, guys and dolls, Hillary won the great state of Kentucky by a landslide. Screw the math, THIS IS NOT OVER YET! The pundits and fact-checkers and that guy who plays with the big touch-screen board on CNN, John King, have no idea what they’re talking about. She’s staying in it for the long haul. All the way through the crucial states of South Dakota and Montana and…really? No shit. And Puerto Rico! Yes, these last three contests are really what it’s all about.

Forget Super Tuesday and Super-Duper Tuesday and Pennsylvania and all 48 other states, THIS is what it’s been boiling down to for these last 18 months of campaigning- South Dakota, Montana and Puerto Rico. The hard-working, mostly white(sorry, Puerto Rico) people of these last two states are as salt-of-the-earth as it gets. June 3rd is where this race actually, finally get’s serious. If she wins these last two states, then it’s obvious to anyone that she should be the nominee.

Did you know that a Democrat has not won the White House without winning South Dakota and Montana on years that end in “8″ since 1828? No? Well, it’s true. Or, at least, it’s true until you take the time to look it up and prove me wrong, which you won’t, because no one cares.

That’s right, no one cares. Sorry to burst your bubble, Hillary, but no one cares. At all.

Go ahead, check the major news outlets. Check CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times and Reuters. I’ll wait… … … … … … … … …done? On almost all of them, the big story is Barack Obama’s big win here in Oregon or Teddy Kennedy’s release from the hospital (get well, Teddy!). We live in a country dominated by media, if you can’t get mentioned in said media, there is no reason for people to care about you. None. Just look at David Hasselhoff. No one gave two shits about him for years until he was shown on video, drunk and sad, trying to eat a hamburger on the floor. Then, people cared, because everyone loves a train wreck.

Only MSNBC has anything of signifigance about Hillary and even then, the sub story is about how Obama is close to winning the nomination, anyway. Even in the related content of that story, there is a poll where you can vote as to whether you think she should stay in the race. The article itself is pure fluff, with her camp trotting out the “strongest candidate” BS and quoting Bill Clinton as saying that there has been “gender bias” in the campaign, then contradicting himself a sentence later.

It’s. Over.

Every Clinton campaign member and surrogate from here to kingdom come will barrage you with talking points that are strategically assembled to cast doubt on Obama and put the best spin on Clinton. That’s their job. That’s what she’s run her campaign into a $20+ million hole doing. They’ve even started claiming that her “wins” in Florida and Michigan should be counted, “because everyone deserves a vote.” If they deserved a vote and they didn’t get it, then they should blame their state representatives or their state party chairs, because those are the people that went against the wishes and rules of the DNC, not the candidates.

But to listen to Hillary’s people tell it, that’s exactly the case. But she’s fighting for their rights to be heard, and Barack Obama isn’t. Of course, she’s doing that AFTER she signed an agreement not to campaign and not to count the primaries held in those states. She and every other candidate at the time signed that agreement. But once she fell behind and needed those votes, then she’s trying to fight for their rights, then she’s the champion of the disenfranchised. It’s funny how a person’s perspective changes once their position changes…ain’t it?

As for her landslide victories in Kentucky and West Virginia, she won big in those states because a great many people, but not all, voted for her because she’s white and Barack, well, isn’t. That’s all I need to say.

In light of the long, drawn-out death march that the Clinton campaign has dragged us all through, I’d like to propose some simple rules to be added to both parties’ Primary processes. Here they are:

1. If you run out of money, you have to quit. You can’t run your campaign into debt, not pay your bills to outside vendors, beg for money at the beginning, middle and end of every speech and then expect someone else to bail you out. Running into debt without appearance of consequences is exactly why so many people in this country have such massive credit card debt. You’re setting a bad example. If you’re out of money, you have to quit, period.
2. If there is no mathematical way for you to win enough delegates, Super or otherwise, to win the nomination, then you have to quit. None of us liked math growing up. We never actually thought it would pertain to our real lives. So, maybe that’s how we get to the point where an entire campaign can just blatantly ignore the cold, hard numbers. And when Superdelegates are signing up with your competitor at a rate of, oh, 100 to 3 or 4, it’s pretty obvious that they know what’s hot, and that you’re not it.

That’s right, I only have two new rules to introduce. But I think that they are pretty conclusive and would really clean up the process.