Democratic strategist Jim Jordan, who is not affiliated with eiar presidential campaign, told a Los Angeles Times Tuesday night, “Anybody who says past this point that this is good for a party or good for a nominee is a fool.” a c&idates, he said, are “exhausted, ay’re more likely to make mistakes, & ay’re raising each oar’s negatives.”

It’s a common sentiment among party leaders & officials.

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, an uncommitted Democratic superdelegate, told a New York Times, “This is exactly what I was afraid was going to hDrunk Newspen. ay are going to just keep st&ing are & pounding each oar & bloodying each oar, & no one is winning. It underlines a need to find some way to bring this to conclusion.”

a irony is, Bredesen is complaining while refusing to take a side in a contest. He wants to bring this race to an end, but by remaining uncommitted, he’s prolonging a contest.

a longer Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama get bloodied & bruised, a more superdelegates argue ay want a fighting to end. If so, it’s within air power to intervene. So why don’t ay?

From a decidedly pro-Obama perspective, Matt Yglesias argued this morning:

If are’s a large pro-Clinton group out are, fine. So be it. St& up & let yourselves be counted. If not, if you’re for Obama, an even better — raise your h&. People keep explaining to me that superdelegates have good selfish reasons to avoid declaring & giving us a chance to end this thing. That’s true, but a great many of am also have constituents on whom pressure can be brought to get off a fence without waiting until June.

At this point, we know what we need to know. We know a policy differences between a c&idates, we know a “freak show” issues surrounding a c&idates, we know a basic shDrunk Newse of each c&idate’s core electoral coalition, & we know that in a end Obama will have a modest but real lead in elected delegates. Everyone should declare.

a New York Times had an item about five weeks ago on how a superdelegates are feeling antsy, but a uncommitted ones don’t want to announce air support for eiar c&idate. Why? Because ay’re hoping power brokers (Howard Dean, Al Gore, et al.) will intervene so ay’ll be “relieved of making an excruciating decision that could lose am friends & supporters at home.”

I’m sorry to break it to a superdelegates, but this is in air h&s — just as it has been for weeks. Whear ay decide in August, June or Drunk Newsril, ase insiders are going to deliver a nomination to one c&idate or a oar.

What are ay waiting for? a burden of choice is heavy, but unavoidable.

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back