Posted on 02/07/2008 12:16:31 PM PST by Uncledave
Liberals in general are a big, confusing, and divisive waste of precious time.
Actually it should be “String” theory.........H! will be pulling the strings........
I predict actual violence within the building as the NEA teachers start a race war.
I predict five fat brownshirts in a German tuba band...
(with each other).
Let’s stock up on popcorn and watch. Yep who knows what will happen if the super delegates hold the balance of power. I think it’s funny that the Democrats pride themselves on counting every vote and all that, and they allocate 20% of their convention vote to people who are specifically not committed to anyone, who are not chosen in primaries or caucuses.
You're just saying that to try to cheer me up after another of my candidates has left. Well it worked.
Considering how quickly Republicans bailed out after I decided to support them, I'm thinking of supporting McCain just to be rid of him by the end of the month.
Is there any way to gouge out my mind's eye to make that vision go away?
The last primary is on June 3. The convention isn’t until the end of August. That’s plenty of time to work out a back-room deal well before the opening gavel.
Remember that most of these superdelegates in both parties are, not to use too derogatory a term, party hacks — most will put the good of their party over the good of their favorite candidate. If the superdelegates are the swing bloc, I have little doubt they’ll strike a deal out of public view and before the convention. All of them remember 1968, and all know a chaotic convention would bring disaster.
Not to mention that a lot of the “earned” delegates will be chosen at the state conventions, most of which won’t happen for a number of months. Individual voters might not practice a high level of sophisticated strategic voting, but I promise you that state convention delegates and the superdelegates will. There will be a lot of horse-trading this summer. It does no good to gain points with a candidate who loses and has no favors to hand out.
Funny that the Reps have a fairly clear front-runner, and the Dems are contemplating a brokered convention. Four days ago, it looked more likely to swing the other way.
According to Jonathan Alter, Clintonista Alexis Herman will play a big role in deciding whether to seat Michigan and Florida:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/108697/page/2
Once delegates arrive in the Mile High City, the first order of business will be to resolve the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations. The Democratic National Committee stripped those states of their delegates because they broke party rules by scheduling their primaries out of turn. Although all of the Democratic candidates agreed not to campaign in either place, Hillary won in both, and she obviously wants those delegations counted; Obama does not. Under pressure from the Obama camp, the DNC may require Florida and Michigan to schedule caucuses, probably in early June, to select their delegates. If they refuse, the Florida-Michigan question will be referred to the DNC’s credentials committee, which is headed by Alexis Herman, a former secretary of labor and senior aide in the Clinton White House. She would presumably hold highly publicized hearings over the summer and issue a report.
The credentials committee’s report would be debated on the floor of the convention on the first night. It would likely be the test vote to see the relative strength of the two campaigns. (Similar test votes on obscure party rules were held at the 1972, 1980 and 1984 Democratic conventions, when George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, respectively, entered the convention just shy of the votes needed to nominate.) The winner of that vote on Monday, Aug. 25, would likely be nominated on Aug. 27.
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I predict an increase in all sorts of crime in the Denver Metropolitan area. Guard your home and property tightly while these freaks are in town. They will steal everything and temporarily turn Denver into a Philadelphia.
“Chaos theory attempts to explain the fact that complex and unpredictable results can and will occur in systems that are sensitive to their initial conditions. A common example of this is known as the Butterfly Effect. It states that, in theory, the flutter of a butterfly’s wings in China could, in fact, actually effect weather patterns in New York City, thousands of miles away. In other words, it is possible that a very small occurance can produce unpredictable and sometimes drastic results by triggering a series of increasingly significant events.”
“The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.
The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.”
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Now consider this:
Conservatives, By compromising there principles in past elections And considering only that a candidate was “GOP”...Have allowed the situation we are in today to come to be. That was a prime example of Chaos Theory. And this time around we may be to far gone- to tilt back upright. But the only thing we can do is to start standing up to all of this, and not vote for bad candidates. All we can hope for is that by the grace of God that it is not too late.
OK so the dems get in. One can hope that they will get all the blame for the mess they make. One can hope that we have enough freedom left to be able to pick up the pieces when they get done. One thing is for sure. We have lost plenty of freedom in the last 7 years. We are on the path that destroys this country already. One can hope that after 4 years of Hillary or Obama rule that the people will be crying out for true conservative leadership, and that Conservative will no longer be associated with Neocon or Rhino. One can hope anyways.
FOTFL Thanx. I needed something to laugh about!
The worst thing that can happen is the Super Delegates will override the popular vote. How will Democrats respond if Obama wins the popular vote and has the most nonSuper Delegates, but then the Clinton machine delivers the Super Delegates and the nomination???? I think the crap will hit the fan, and that would be a good thing.
I want a Chicago redux! Please give me a Chicago redux!
At a democrat convention where deals and kickbacks rule, the smart money should be on Hillary.
She will also suffer the most damage. Her only hope is to go into the convention with a commanding lead. The VP pick will be key. She may go with a Bentsen-type of pick to offset her Dukakisness. .
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