Posted on 05/21/2008 1:00:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight.
The presidential candidate said Wednesday, "Yes I will. I will, because I feel very strongly about this."
Clinton is calling for delegates from both states to be seated at the convention based on the primaries.
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Would all of you Hillary supporters be rooting for her if it were Hillary vs. McCain in the general and he had the most electoral votes and she had the most popular votes — ala Gore v. Bush?
He needs to stay out of focus until early November.
He'll be "out of focus" a lot longer than that.
“Would all of you Hillary supporters be rooting for her if it were Hillary vs. McCain in the general and he had the most electoral votes and she had the most popular votes — ala Gore v. Bush?”
geez. chill out.
Stick to your guns Hillary!
Does counting their votes automatically go along with seating them?
Regardless, if not seating them worked to Beastie’s advantage, she’d be advocating that. She doesn’t really give a rip about the delegates or the people they ostensibly represent. Only the fact they can help bring about her goal.
Rush had an interesting speculation today that Obama-lama Ding Dong won’t want Beastie as a running mate as Slick being part of that package, would take all attention away from Ding Dong and upstage him on the stage and during the convention.
I’m actually pulling for HRC to follow through on something. Somebody pinch me.
There..fixed it.
Suppose the rules committee goes against her on May 31st. Then she would have to trigger a floor fight at the convention, wouldn’t she? At least if we can take on face value that she strongly believes these votes should count. If we believe that she has any strong core beliefs.
The Dem. race could be in limbo till the convention if that happens, if she decides to go for a floor fight. Obama will almost certainly get to 2026 delegates by June 3rd, including more super delegate endorsements, but if Florida and Mich. get counted, the number needed to clinch it goes to 2210. And then we would all have to wait for the floor fight and roll call of states at the convention to see if Barry gets his 2210+. Or to see the results of the floor fight to see if 2210 is the magic number needed.
Or Hillary could concede and spare Democrats some grief.
This adds fuel to my long held theory that there will be no dem convention (as they have previously been known) this year.
Very doubtful...Obama was totally unknown at the time FL & MI voted...had they waited and voted at the time they were supposed to, he was having his love affair with America and all the dirt had yet to come out on him.
Does Hillary care about tearing apart the Democrat party? Does she care about her future role in the Democrat party? Does she care about running for pres. or other offices in the future and having Democrat party support?
Considering what happened to Chicago in 68, Denver should withdraw their invitation for the CommiecRATs to convene there.
Considering what happened to Chicago in 68, Denver should withdraw their invitation for the CommiecRATs to convene there.
A lot would...and also, vote for her.
Well of course she will. Those superdelegates don’t actually count until they vote, which is AT THE CONVENTION. They can change who they support daily if they want to.
I’m afraid that the beast and osama will pair up via. demand from the party. Fact that neither of them are electable but the pair would probably cinch it for the dems. I figure that osama or slick will realize that you get all of the perks and only half of the notoriety for being VP and that’s better than their current day job. All for the good of the party.
That's the one thing I give her credit for (Ron Paul, too, for that matter) and wish to God our side had a whole lot more of. If they're going to go down, they'll go down swinging.
Shea needs to touch her with the Sword of Shannara. Warlock Lord Hillary refuses to accept the truth of her electoral death, and continues to haunt the realm.
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