"Candygram!"
Posted on 12/19/2009 10:11:05 AM PST by jbjd
Have you heard? The Democratic National Committee Services Corporation (DNC Services Corporation or, Corporation) is “considering” revising its Presidential nominating rules. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/05/democrats-consider-new-presidential-nominating-process/
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“We need to improve a little bit in spite of the fact that we got a great candidate out of the process,” Clyburn said Saturday at a meeting of a DNC working group tasked with drafting a new plan. “It was not very comfortable at various points along the way.” (Emphasis added by jbjd.)
Ya think?
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Both the movie “Jaws” and the television show “Saturday Night Live” debuted in 1975. The hysteria – which Merriem-Webster defines as “behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess” – produced by the movie resulted in a hysterical – as in, excessively funny – skit on SNL, called “Land Shark.”
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The premise of the skit is simple. The Land Shark, determined to eat its prey, manages to trick unsuspecting apartment dwellers into opening up their doors to him by offering up a series of incredible rouses until he finds the fiction that works.
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Does the new process including vetting candidates properly? Asking them for their various papers?
I’d like to see some real changes in the Republican process as well. I’m tired of the candidates being whittled down to virtually nothing by the time many large states even get a chance to vote.
Ha ha ha! (Repeat to the sound of Santa Claus exclaiming, “Ho ho ho!”)
This has to be Darks fault.
"Candygram!"
If this were a Sharkarian trap, the extra would have been splatted by now.
Your question is not as simple as it appears on its face. First, we have to qualify what we mean by vetting the candidate. Because absent federal legislation (or a Constitutional amendment), no state has the right to determine who is qualified to run for POTUS. However, the state has the right to determine the qualifications for getting on the ballot. (Even if a candidate fails to meet this qualification, this does not mean, the Electors for the party cannot still vote for this person in December.) Plus, since the political party corporations are not public (read, governmental) agencies, they cannot be compelled to carry out what is the government function of vetting the eligibility of the candidate to appear on state ballots. (Notice, determining eligibility to get on the ballot is not the same thing as eligibility to be POTUS.)
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