Amazing to see you guys still salivating that HRC will loose this battle somehow! lol. Stop counting the chickens before they are hatched!!

Because, have you seen latest polls? especially after the entire world saw all Rev. Wright's racist sermons! ...Obama is toast, people, just wake up and change your slogan "yes we can" to "NO WE CAN’T"! :)

Respect for the rules is not an either/or proposition. When you impose rules, you face a cost. I'm asking if you think the price is worth paying. Are you prepared to address the question of whether the consequences of repealing this rule are so serious that it's better to let it stand and let the disgruntled voters in Florida and Michigan sit the election out?????

FWIW, you're presenting an absurd hypothetical.  From what I've seen, Obama beats McCain handily now, without the party having "come together", even without taking FL.

What's so absurd about thinking the voters won't necessarily feel the same way in November as they do today???

Is it absurd to think the Republicans and Mainstream media are only beginning to turn their guns on Obama? You're going to see a lot more ugliness out there, and I don't think it's absurd to envision Obama's current lead disappearing--especially if a rigid adherence to arbitrary rules erodes Obama's Genuinely Nice Guy image.

that can stop other states from pulling a Michigan in 2012. If MI pays no penalty this time then five or six other states will shout "Me first!" next time. Every state will claim to be a more important battleground than every other state. Eventually the states with the most delegates will be front-loaded and primary season will last ten days and be concluded long before January 1st. People are chafing against the IA-NH always-first system and with good reason. But MI and FL picked a piss-poor method to remedy that. Without rules, you get the law of the jungle. You'd expect a judge (actual or pretend) to know that.