Really not arguing the argument – just raising it. Hope that's clearer.

Nominees are selected by the vote of delegates, not by the popular vote–just as Presidents are elected by the electoral college vote, not the popular vote. You can complain about this. You can make reasonable arguments about this being unfair. You can work to change the system for the next election.

But the rules were in place before the primaries started. And they were known–or should have been known by well-paid political professionals–before the primaries began.

Since March, the delegate math has always been tough for Clinton. It has always been unlikely that she would gather more delegates by votes. It has, in short, always been unlikely that she would win the nomination.

I do understand that she has a devoted following. I do understand that this is an unusually good year for an–um–unconventional Democrat to win the election, even though there are plenty of people who would never vote for a woman or someone whose last name is Clinton. I do understand that she feels sandbagged. And I certainly understand that she was poorly served by the well-paid political professionals who worked for her.

If the deus ex machina were to descend from the heavens and grant her the nomination, I would gladly vote for Hillary Clinton to be the President of the United States.

But however close, she lost.

She should concede.

She should use her now well-honed campaign skills to elect the other unconventional Democrat, even though there are plenty of people who would never vote for a black person or someone whose middle name is Hussein.

I feel for her.

But I also think she has the wonderful example of Sen. Kennedy, who lost another hard-fought campaign for the Democratic nomination (and who, surely, must have felt a sense of entitlement when he ran) and who went on to become one of the most effective senators in our history.

JFK and RFK were poetic figures. Teddy was always the prosaic brother.

Certainly it might have been otherwise for Sen Clinton. But who can say what might have been?