In Fairness to Hillary

davidlimbaugh.com ^ | 05/08/08 | david limbaugh

[lancer256]

The question, my fellow election watchers, is not, "Why won't Hillary do the honorable thing and quit?" but "Why won't Democrats do the honorable thing and quit trying to force her to?"

Did Democrats make Ted Kennedy quit when he fought Jimmy Carter through the Democratic convention in 1980 in an effort to dislodge pledged delegates though Carter had already secured a majority? That was far worse than anything Hillary is doing.

Until one of the candidates secures the magic number of delegates (a majority) -- and that number is a moving target, given the limbo status of Florida and Michigan -- there is no nominee. A plurality won't cut it.

Nor is the candidate with the most pledged delegates automatically entitled to the nod of the superdelegates or even most of them. The superdelegates are free agents, who may choose either candidate for any reason.

The superdelegate system was designed to give the superdelegates maximum prerogative, which only makes sense because the party bosses established it to ensure their own control over the nomination process. The whole idea was to give them the power to substitute their judgment for the will of the people if, in their political omniscience, they determine the people's choice to be not prudent.

[Canedawg]

“Why won’t Democrats do the honorable thing and quit trying to force her to?”

When was the last time the Dims did something honorable?

[yldstrk]

She ain’t quitting, Tonto. If she can’t be Pres, she’ll take the Domo chair from Dean. Duh.

[upchuck]

BUMP!

[Crawdad]

In fairness to Billy Dale...

[Caipirabob]

[originalbuckeye]

Here's my theory. The DNC has come to loathe the Clintons for ruining the Democrat domination of the government. They knew they couldn't run another white guy against the woman, so they had to find a minority to counter her gender advantage. Obama was not ready for prime time but the DNC figured no one would be able to criticize him or they would be subjected to the cry of racism. This has been done to the Clintons anyway. So Obama has advanced further than most thought he would do and now they have him poised to take the nomination. They just want Hillary! to go away so they can start on the ruination of McCain (with their willing accomplices in the MSM). Hillary! and Bill are persona non grata at this point. I'm just wondering what the next trick in the Clinton's bag is. She will need to be dragged kicking and screaming off the floor at the Dem convention as she was ENTITLED to the nomination dontcha know. Now the Obamas think they are ENTITLED and won't go quietly into a classy race for the WH. No class in this race this year, except maybe Cindy McCain.

[smalltownslick]

This whole thing has me thinking NO ONE should ever quit - R or D. Once a candidate is in, they should be in til the convention - otherwise, why have the convention? Any time a candidate quits before all the primaries are over, there are people who are “disenfranchised” because they are never given the opportunity to vote for the candidate they preferred. Someone mentioned that on the Republican side just the other day - because they got everyone to drop out so soon, by the time most of the primaries came around, there was no one left to vote for.

So even if a candidate doesn’t feel he/she has a chance to win, or doesn’t want to expend any more money and energy on the campaign, their names should always remain on the ballot all the way to the primary.

Or, as others have suggested, have a national primary. That would eliminate so many problems, and the whole concept of “momentum” - “I’m gonna vote for whoever everyone else is voting for.” Can’t people think for themselves?

[nancyvideo]

Great article!