Editorial: Florida, Michigan: Train wreck for Democrats?

Sacramento Bee ^ | 3/10/8 | Editor

[gridlock]

I’m thinking “so sad, too bad” sounds like a pretty good solution to me!

[VeniVidiVici]

The apparent Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, is surely chuckling at this state of affairs. He should. One of his GOP friends helped engineer it. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and a Republican-controlled Legislature approved moving up Florida's primary date to January, ignoring Dean's warnings. Once Florida made the move, Michigan followed it off the cliff and defied the DNC rules.

No Democrat leaning bias here, hmm?

For your liberal friends out there who follow these Pied Piper editorials; the Florida legislature was practically unanimous in its vote to move the date of the Florida primaries.

For those of you in Rio Linda that means all Republicans *and* Democrats voted for this.

And the editorial comment that Florida should pay for the DNCs problem? Take a hike, SacBee. Hold a bake sale and give the proceeds to your Democrat overlords to help defray the cost. I fail to see why the taxpayers should pay for a "do-over".

[Pistolshot]

POPCORN, GET YER POPCORN !!!!

[ladtx]

Best thing the GOP could do would be to keep pointing out this fiasco. The dumb dems can’t oversee their own primaries and they want to run the country? Sorry, thanks but, no thanks. Learn how get your own house in order then we’ll talk about it.

[Vigilanteman]

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and a Republican-controlled Legislature approved moving up Florida's primary date to January, ignoring Dean's warnings.

So the Sacramento Bee's advice is to:

1. First blame the Republicans. (Hellooooo! Primaries are party affairs. The state parties get to determine the dates. South Carolina's Democrats held their primary a week after the Republican primary there. Idaho's Republicans still haven't held their caucus even though the Democrats held theirs on February 5.

2. If this doesn't work, then remove the consequences of having your cake and eating it too with a do-over. Hellooooooo! Suddenly Pennsylvania is very important in the Democrat primary, even though everyone predicted we would be inconsequential with an April 22 primary.

3. If "fairness" for Democrats is so damned important, why isn't fairness for Republicans? After all, it was Florida which largely saddled us with McCain as the nominee. Some of us would like a do-over too. And if Florida is a do-over, then all those states voting after Florida should be do-overs since the Florida result was so key.

[DCBurgess58]

Soooooooooooo The Sacramento Bee is suggesting that Charlie Crist should have vetoed the choice of the Florida DNC and the Democrat controlled legislature???? That would have gone down like a turd in a punchbowl!

[kidd]

The apparent Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, is surely chuckling at this state of affairs. He should. One of his GOP friends helped engineer it. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and a Republican-controlled Legislature approved moving up Florida's primary date to January, ignoring Dean's warnings. Once Florida made the move, Michigan followed it off the cliff and defied the DNC rules.

Furthermore, the Florida bill to move the primary to an earlier date WAS INTRODUCED BY A DEMOCRAT lawmaker.

[schu]

Classic Democrat respose. We do not like the results, let's change the rules and have a do over .... ;-)

If it were not so true it would be funny!

schu

[DCBurgess58]

Charlie Crist should have vetoed the choice of the Florida DNC and the Democrat controlled legislature????

I missed the part about the legislature being Republican, It doesn't matter though, the bill was introduced and 100% supported by Dems

[DustyMoment]

One of the things I find fascinating in this whole debacle is that FL Sen. Bill Nelson initially came out against another primary. In recent comments, he has indicated that he supports another primary . . . . . or SOME means of making the FL primary count. Perhpas someone had a “meeting of the minds” with him!

This also has the issue of “Be careful what you wish for”. In the primary, HillBillary originally won FL’s delegates. She might not come out so well on the “do-over”. Obama came on strong after the primaries were over in Mich. and FL!

[kalee]

I’m having an argument with a dem after I told him I had read this numerous places. He wants a name and bill number, do you have it? I have done a quick google search and can’t find anything.

[bill1952]

(Hellooooo! Primaries are party affairs. The state parties get to determine the dates.

Ummm. No. Not in Florida they don't.

Fact is the dates are set by State law, and the parties follow suit.
After all, there is no special law for political parties that gives the DNC some say in how Florida must pay for primaries.

And we are still laughing at Dean.

The freaking nutjobs in any party who think that states and their taxpayers have to hold and pay for their primaries in the first place, need to be run out of town on a rail.

[bill1952]

Hillary will sweep Florida.
Not many blacks and plenty of middle age democrat women in the dem ranks.

Of course, in the general, she will do poorly, as will any democrat.

[preacher]

How was it done in Michigan? Was it by a DEMOCRAT controlled legislature?

[t4texas]

It's hilarious that the party which prides itself on looking after the interests of the disadvantaged and underprivileged is not only out of touch with their own mantra they are out of touch with each other. This specter is only rivaled by Hillary's stated objective of rebuilding this middle class. After the train wreck that is the dem nominating process I can only imagine a scene like Hiroshima after an Anola Gay fly over.

[sr4402]

The apparent Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, is surely chuckling at this state of affairs. He should. One of his GOP friends helped engineer it. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and a Republican-controlled Legislature approved moving up Florida's primary date to January, ignoring Dean's warnings. Once Florida made the move, Michigan followed it off the cliff and defied the DNC rules.

No Republican Speaker would stand in the way of a Democratic Primary. To do so would be political suicide. The writer reveals his bias since it was a Democrat who pushed the Bill and the Democrats who Got what they ASKED FOR. DOH!

[MtnClimber]

Two trains on a slow-speed collision path. The wreck looks to be centered on Denver. Colorado’s left-wing, nutjob Governor (Bill Ritter, D-RAT) is certain to make the problems worse as he tries to clean up the mess.

[Kozak]

[Signalman]

“Train wreck for the Democrats”

I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope.......