Well, everyone always points to Lincoln as a brokered candidate. But the dims are fresh all out of Lincolns and he was a republican anyway. This just makes it more of a shamed that McInsane is our candidate. Virtually any one of the other candidates would have kicked butt. Unfortunately it is becoming more and more apparent that the candidate selection process excels at finding the worst possible people for the job. The only reason that McInsane has a chance is that the dim party is so incompetent that they can’t even perform their most basic function, which is to select a viable candidate for president. Add to this the incompetence of Howard Dean in barring the Florida and Michigan delegates, to must win states and you have a party that isn’t fit rule Albania. And who was the genius that thought up proportional splitting of delegates and super duper delegates anyway? If you think about it for five minutes you come to the conclusion that a virtual stalemate is inevitable. At some point there has to be a close race where both candidates fail to garner the needed delegate totals. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Gosh, I guess you have much to say. Paragraphs are our friends. As a patient and inquisitive person, I will take the time to break down your post, and digest the contents thereof. ;-)
The dims use proportional splitting of the delegates and super delegates, because they don't trust their own members not to drive the party off a cliff.
The intent was to ensure the primary race was always close so that the super delegates could step in and "anoint" the candidate with a realistic chance of winning and enough of a marginal grip on sanity to ensure that if elected, the dim candidate would be no less incompetent a President than Jimmy Carter.
However, the system was not designed to handle two Marxists candidates each attempting run further left than the other, to secure the nomination. This dim primary season is like a bad Dr. Seuss book with McGovern1 and McGovern2 as the candidates.
Not that the Republicans are faring much better. The key to success for both parties is the same: Run as hard and as far to the right as you can.
Instead, we are treated to the spectacle of three individuals, who among them lack the executive ability to run a corner lemonade stand, attempting to outdo each other in their promises to take from the productive citizens of this nation and give to the masses in order to buy votes.
God help America!
I've heard Bob Beckel take reluctant, partial credit for it a number of times, saying it goes back to the 1984 election.
I think he really regrets his part in it.