Posted on 03/17/2008 9:49:13 PM PDT by MitchellC
Democrats spent 40 years engineering the perfect presidential nomination system. Instead we engineered a perfect train wreck.
We now are in perfect position to blow an election that should be ours.
We have two strong, popular candidates for the nomination. Neither has put the race away. They are tired, frustrated and getting madder at each other every day. Their supporters are getting more and more bitter. And the party is about to fracture on racial and gender lines.
Here is how we got here:
* After the 1968 Chicago convention, the party went on a reform bender: Cut the bosses’ power, and empower the grassroots. The result was George McGovern and the 1972 debacle. North Carolina got a Republican Governor – and Jesse Helms.
* In 1982, the commission chaired by Governor Hunt – with David Price as staff director – created the superdelegates. The superdelegates’ job was to pick a winner. They picked Walter Mondale, who lost 49 states. North Carolina got another Republican Governor, and Helms beat Jim Hunt for Senate.
* Over the years, the party replaced winner-take-all primaries and caucuses with proportional representation. The result – when you have two strong candidates like now – is that neither can win without the superdelegates.
* During the last four years, so as not to be left out of the nominating fun, states front-loaded primaries and caucuses. The result is that Obama rode his wave to an insuperable lead after Super Tuesday in early February. But he could not win outright.
If we lose in November – thanks to 40 years of reforms – you can count on one thing: We will have another set of reforms to get it right next time.
Poor babies.
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Hillery carries a recipe for disaster and who the Hell knows what Mr. Obama is carrying?
This time, I'm not so sure the media will carry their water.
I just hope the Republicans don’t get too arrogant about it. It may come back to bite them because Hussein Obama and the demos won’t be laying down for us.
It’s a long, long way to November.
We have a whole government full of “Democrat Reforms;” mostly with similar results.
That’s true. Two fears of mine is that McCain and the party is just too dumb/inept to run with the ball while we have it, and that McCain might not have enough coat tails for the down-ticket Republicans to catch a ride on, even with the faults of the Democrats.
Nope...I believe he is dead serious/series.
thats’ it. :D
And that’s sad.
Hmmm? On second thought; maybe that will cause more Demwits to swing to Obama?
As Ronald Reagan said about the Soviet Union, they will eventually be consumed by the inmorality of their system. Laws of nature are very hard to hard to change.
Well, it is not like the Republican nomination process is working for them much better. The Republicans after all are going to nominate Mr. and Mrs. Puff Daschle’s vacation buddy.
As one of "them," let me say that we are very happy to see these rifts in the Democrat Party and applaud all media coverage of the splintering, regardless of who may vacation with whom.
McC’s coattails are just as apt to be Democrat as Republican.
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