"That Obama is sooooo hot right now. Let's vote for him."
Posted on 02/11/2008 12:21:44 AM PST by bshomoic
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Imagine that as the convention approaches, Sen. Clinton is leading in the popular vote, but Sen. Obama has the delegate lead. Surely no one familiar with her history would doubt that her take-no-prisoners campaign team would do whatever it took to capture the nomination, including all manner of challenges to Obama delegates and tidal waves of litigation. [Barack Obama]
Indeed, it has already been reported that Sen. Clinton will demand that the convention seat delegates from Michigan and Florida, two states whose delegates have been disqualified by the party for holding January primaries in defiance of party rules. The candidates agreed not to campaign in those states. But Sen. Clinton opted to keep her name on the Michigan primary ballot, and staged a primary-day victory visit to Florida, winning both of those unsanctioned primaries. Her campaign is arguing that the delegates she won in each state be recognized despite party rules and notwithstanding her commitment not to compete in those primaries. Of course. "Count every vote."
As the convention nears, with Sen. Clinton trailing slightly in the delegate count, the next step might well be a suit in the Florida courts challenging her party's refusal to seat Florida's delegation at the convention. And the Florida courts, as they did twice in 2000, might find some ostensible legal basis for overturning the pre-election rules and order the party to recognize the Clinton Florida delegates. That might tip the balance to Sen. Clinton.
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Remember...
“This is the most important election of our lifetime.”
- H. Clinton
Clinton is no longer nearly as popular with Democrats as Obama. Most of the Democrats are going to be really mad, if she’s nominated. She would be more easily defeated in the general election, though.
Stupid premise ... the super delegates will determine the dem nominee.
"That Obama is sooooo hot right now. Let's vote for him."
That’s good...really good! LOL!
An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.
I’m glad your mentioned Jeb Bush. I believe Jeb Bush may be John McCain’s VP come this November.
If this becomes the scene it will turn off so many Obamma voters that Mrs. Clinton will get her clock cleaned in the general.
She is disliked and distrusted by a near majority of the populace at this point. She will really appear terribly if she goes through this kind of crap to win the nomination
Course she couldn’t be lower in my esteem regardless of what she may do in the near future.
She is a liar, thief, enabler of a serial sexual pervert and imho has had many folks who offed who tried to go against her sorry butt.
it would be great to see another Bush in the White House, but I don't think that's going to happen.
And it's good that you don't see Jeb as pres. He's proven impotent in the face of the Euthenasia machine.
And, florida did what it wanted to do (and what it always did) the entire time he was governor: bought and sold souls.
Florida: saw it off and cut it away.
I actually think there is a stronger case to be made for upholding the DNC rule against the early Florida primary.The DNC, like the RNC, is a private organization like the Odd Fellows or, in this case, the Liar's Club. That is why the two parties fought, and won, in court when the State of California presumed to pass a law requiring open primaries in that state. The constitutional right of free association does not permit the state to decide what a club's rules are.
Consequently SCOTUS could, and IMHO would, overturn the SCoFLaws if they tried to change the rules of the national Democratic Party without any need to reference Bush v. Gore. Probably unanimously.
But Olsen's point about how Hillary's attempt to change the DNC's rules post hoc, after having fussed and fumed about the Electoral College back in '00, is a delicious irony.
Electing Hillary is much more important than rules.
Doubt it. Too much Bush fatigue. Similar to Clinton fatigue.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967626/posts
You are correct. By the DNC rules there were no primaries.
It logically and legally follows that if there was no primary, there was no winner and there are no delegates.
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