Posted on 04/17/2008 6:20:23 PM PDT by Red Steel
(CNN)— An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”
“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” the Democratic National Committee Chairman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We’ve got to know who our nominee is.”
After facing criticism for a mostly hands-off leadership style during much of the primary season, Dean has been steadily raising the rhetorical pressure on superdelegates. He said Thursday that roughly 65 percent of them have made their preference plain, but that more than 300 have yet to make up their minds.
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This is so good. Who’d have thought a Dem nomination race could be so much fun?
There's really no such thing as "illegal" when it comes to a political party determining its own candidate(s). They basically make up their own rules for themselves, and determine their candidate(s) however they want.
/johnny/
Primaries are not elections. Parties make there own rules. Blue eyed people could vote twenty times if they chose to make their rules that way. Nothing illegal about it.
From your typical well-informed Dim voter.
“This is so good. Who’d have thought a Dem nomination race could be so much fun?”
Not Hitlery, for damned sure. Gotta love it.
Why is he telling this to Wolf Blitzer? Because the delegates aren't paying any attention to him?
Egads! What a situation! I always thought that even primary elections were governed under some kind of broader law. How did we come to this?
“One think she’s queen, the other thinks he’s the second coming....”
Thanks. I was afraid the choice was between antichrist A and antichrist B.
I thought he was the queen.
After the lousy performance by the Democratic candidates Wednesday night, I can understand Dean’s panic. I’m getting fairly sick and tired of the 1960’s radicals, Howard Dean included, who occupy the Democratic Party. I would love to see the Dems lose the Presidential election, and Dean lose his job.
Absolutely!
Hillary needs to steal the rat nomination. Can you imagine that? Buh-bye at least 20% of the permanent black Democrat "base", not to mention another 20% of the guilty-white-liberal Democrat "base". A Hillary nomination would castrate (no pun intended) the Democrat party for at least a decade.
It's the Clintons doing what they do best: trashing everything they touch.
I know some Democrats in Michigan and Florida who were disenfranchised.
Tanya K likes to shout in all caps too. That must mean she is “really serious.” LOL
The primary system needs to be changed to prevent Iowa and New Hampshire from picking our candidates, and the national party committees should be told to butt out. Who is Howard Dean to tell Michigan and Florida when to vote, or that their delegates won’t be seated. Elections are governed by State law. Add in all the idiot quotas that Dems have, and the national party gets to pick all the delegates.
In truth, you don’t want the government regulating parties. If you want to form a political party tomorrow, which selects candidates based on their place in the phone book, that should be your right. Remember, no one is forced to join your party.
I thought he wanted them committed by June 1 (and yes, I think that they should ALL be committed, but that’s another story ;’}...you’re right - he IS in a panic!
It's always been this way. I've been involved in a couple of lawsuits over primary politics and the judges in each case have said that the courts have historically stayed out of the workings of the parties because they are private organizations. We could make up a FReeper party and let JimRob choose our candidate. It would be perfectly legal.
CHAOS
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