Posted on 05/30/2008 4:12:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
"Is Clinton going to make it easy, or is she going to make it hard?" That's how a longtime Democratic Hill staffer frames the dilemma that will face his party after Saturday's expected ruling on seating the delegates from Florida and Michigan. With the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee set to determine the fate of these rule-breaking states, Hillary Clinton and her campaign have demanded that all of the 368 delegates be seated. The bedrock democratic principle that all votes should be counted is at stake, they have argued. To do anything less risks provoking a November backlash against Democrats in both states.
If the RBC—as it's now the fashion to call it in heated bar conversations—seats all the delegates, Clinton would be 55 delegates closer to Obama, whom she currently trails by 200 delegates. That ruling would also legitimize the popular vote in the two states and thereby Clinton's claim that more people have voted for her than for her opponent.
It would also prove the existence of unicorns. Which is to say that this fantasy outcome, in which Clinton gets everything she wants, is highly unlikely for a number of reasons: Committee rules may not allow the full seating; counting delegates and votes from Michigan would be unfair to Obama, who was not on the ballot in the state; and to seat all delegates would virtually erase the sanctions that were put in place to keep states from jumping ahead in the established order of primaries. There's another bedrock principle at stake here: The rules are the rules.
So, what does Clinton do if the RBC doesn't seat all the delegates? Her campaign advisers won't say, but she has two options.
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She knows the longer she hangs in there the better it gets for her.
...will a pit bull let go of your a$$ if you tickle his nose?
This is Hillary. I got a twenny sez “bitter end.” BTT.
The Clintons will NEVER....EVER let a BLACK GUY BEAT THEM....NEVER!!!!
It’s a shame she doesn’t apply her policy here, to jihadis there.
“Fighting All the Way - How Long Will Clinton Fight for the Michigan and Florida Delegates?”
Until she is the nominee.
Karl Rove must be advising her!:)
As long as it takes!
I tell you what, the longer she hangs in there like an obsessed, psychotic Terminator, the more I wish she was on our side.
The article did not mention Hillary’s third option, which is she could show the super delegates the video she has of Michelle Obama speaking at her church about “white people”!
She will never quit without a court fight.
The irony is so thick, you have to brush it away like flys.
5/29...Hillary Clinton-— “you can’t tell how far a frog will jump until you punch him.”
If the RBC -- as it's now the fashion to call it in heated bar conversations -- seats all the delegates, Clinton would be 55 delegates closer to Obama, whom she currently trails by 200 delegates. That ruling would also legitimize the popular vote in the two states and thereby Clinton's claim that more people have voted for her than for her opponent... Committee rules may not allow the full seating; counting delegates and votes from Michigan would be unfair to Obama, who was not on the ballot in the state; and to seat all delegates would virtually erase the sanctions that were put in place to keep states from jumping ahead in the established order of primaries. There's another bedrock principle at stake here: The rules are the rules.Oh, who is that guy kiddin'? The fact that the DNC allows any challenge or debate about this shows that the Dhimmicratic Party doesn't have any rules per se. What a whitewash job. Or maybe blackwash. Or half-blackwash.
I agree with you 100%. But as Rush said the fix is in.
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