This was probably inevitable. Sad, but inevitable.

As her campaign slowly devolves into its death throes, Hillary Clinton has resorted to blaming sexism on her failure to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

Here’s what Clinton told The Washington Post recently.

“The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, ar at least more accepted, and ... there should be equal rejection of the sexism and racism when it raises its ugly head,” she said, adding, “It does seem as though the press is at least not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing more than misogynists.”

And then Clinton went on to bemoan lewd t-shirts and comments she has experienced on the campaign trail.

To which one can only respond with, and this is a highly technical political science term, balderdash.

A 60-year-old candidate with all the hustings charm of Ma Barker and voice that could crack the mirrors on the Hubble Space Telescope, still has managed to best a huge field of Democratic candidates to come within a eye-lash of capturing her party’s presidential nomination.

So please, if Hillary Clinton were truly the victim of sexism, her campaign wouldn’t have made past the Iowa caucuses.

Along the way, Clinton defeated heavyweights Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd, John Edwards and a host of other candidates, as well.

Regardless of your views toward Clinton, considering her Imelda Marcos-like political and personal baggage, she waged an extraodinarily fine campaign, proving herself to be a formidable political force. Good for her.

But all political campaigns produce winners and losers. And instead of accepting the fact she has come up all, too tantalizingly short, Hillary Clinton has now risked her dignity by leaving the the presidential race as an embittered, angry sore loser. It’s unbecoming. It’s embarrassing. It’s, alas, oh so Clintonian.

Hillary Clinton conveniently overlooks she has been elected twice to the United States Senate by overwhelming margins - hardly the victim of sexism there.

And during the course of the Democratic presidential primary season, as she herself has often noted, she is at least tied with or (depending on how you count) even ahead of Barack Obama in the popular vote. Sexism at work here? Really?

She received numerous endorsements from newspapers around the country as well as all manner of special interest groups, who apparantly didn’t care she was a woman.

Are there plenty of prejudices to be found on the stump? You betcha.

Would anyone disagree that Barack Obama has lost votes simply because he’s black? Has John McCain been subjected to ageism? Duh!

Mitt Romney most certainly experienced an anti-Mormon bias. And let’s face, there are still some people out there who are irrationally fearful of a Catholic president.

It is certainly true, as well that Hillary Clinton has indeed been subjected to sexism, but no more or less a bias that any other other high profile candidate has had to endure.

Clinton’s real problem is that she treated the presidential race more as an entitlement rather than an honor to be earned. She made huge miscalculations in campaign strategy and blew enormous amounts of money. And she came up short. Rightfully so.

Men often make the same mistakes. See Giuliani, Rudy.

Presidential political life is a tough, very tough arena. To the victor go the spoils. And eventually, the crybabies go home to Chappaqua - as they should.