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Pelosi Says Nomination Battle Won’t Go To The ConventionWhy Hillary Clinton will only hurt herself if she fights on after next week…

The Hillary Clinton camp has been throwing out some defiant words this week, with surrogates vowing that Clinton will fight to the convention if she does not get exactly what she wants with Florida and Michigan at the RBC meeting on Saturday. It’s strange, since even if she gets exactly what she wants, she’ll still lose, but it’s becoming clear that Clinton’s main argument is that somehow, someway, things need to be changed so that she wins. Now, part of this week’s defiant language is probably just political posturing in preparation for Saturday’s meeting. They obviously want to try and intimidate the members of the RBC into giving her what she wants. Once the meeting is over, and she doesn’t get exactly what she wants, unless she completely loses her mind, she will realize the game is over and concede. Afterall, not doing so will not just ruin her political future in every way imaginable, it will also result in her being turned into a laughing stock throughout the summer as her superdelegates, AND pledged delegates, abandon her. I don’t think it’ll come to that.

She’s too smart and calculating to do that knowing that no matter what happens, the end result will not be her winning. And anyway, it’s clear that the media has already basically forgotten about Clinton, so if she does keep at it all summer, who is going to follow it with Obama and McCain, the real nominees, battling it out? Nobody, and she knows it.But just incase, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had her own defiant words this week.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will step in if necessary to make sure the presidential nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama does not reach the Democratic National Convention – though she believes it could be resolved as early as next week.Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said “I will step in” if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.“Because we cannot take this fight to the convention,” she said. “It must be over before then.”