What's a Super Delegate to do?
Announce your endorsement too soon, and you've lost your leverage for getting that cabinet post.
But if you wait too long and the candidate gets anointed without your blessing, no ambassadorship for you!
This mating ritual is intricate and fraught with peril, but when it's over the Dems will f*uck themselves.
The Demodog superdelegates were emplaced for precisely this kind of year. This is exactly the situation. If they fail to do their job out of cowardice, it is going to force a reassessment of their whole philosophy ... actually, whether or not they do the job now, this year is going to force that reassessment when they have the time to look back upon what occurred.
My belief is that this has all been forced upon us (both parties) by the stooopid frontloading of the primaries because of states being jealous, thus preventing the more leisurely assessment of the candidates that they typically are given.