Carter: Michigan and Florida Should Not Be Counted

Fox News ^ | May 7, 2008

[Red Steel]

BURBANK, Calif. (AP)— Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that delegates from Florida and Michigan should not be counted at the Democratic National Convention because they “disqualified themselves,” and he warned of a disaster if party insiders try to wrest the nomination from the candidate with the largest number of votes and state victories.

An attempt by so-called Democratic superdelegates to override the popular vote “would be an almost unacceptable thing,” Carter told Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.”

If a candidate has a clear edge in votes, state-by-state wins and delegates claimed at caucuses and primaries, “I can’t imagine that the superdelegates would go against them,” Carter said. “It would be a catastrophe for the party.”

Carter’s comments came a day after the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, in which Barack Obama padded his delegate lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the tight race the judgment of superdelegates — elected officials and party insiders who can vote as they like at the party’s August nominating convention — will almost certainly be decisive.

The former president appeared eager at first to steer clear of the disputed primaries in Michigan and Florida, saying their delegations “ought to be seated — for sure — in 2012.”

But when pressed by Leno if those delegates should participate in 2008, Carter said, “No, they disqualified themselves.”

[upsdriver]

LOL!! This from the man who, while monitoring foreign elections, can’t recognize election fraud. Finally he finds fraud, in his own party!