First things first. A hale and hearty greeting to all of the denizens of DailyKos! I mean, we're talking full on eye contact, big toothy smile and nod of the head, the shake of the hand, the optional shoulder grab... The works! Hello everybody! Thanks for having me! My name is Matt, I am a mild-mannered retail wine salesman in D.C. by day, and a deeply committed supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton by night. I am excited to share my views with this community...and awaayyeee we go!
As a supporter of Sen. Clinton, I am appalled, dismayed, bewildered and bereaved with the prevailing wisdom regarding the supposed ice cold and rock hard math of this election. Solemn declarations about this nomination being "over", based strictly on the math, are completely and absolutely contrary to the rules of this nomination. The rules of proportionality and Superdelegates that govern this process were created precisely to deliver the final decision of any close election, let alone a deadlocked race such as this, into the hands of a trusted group of party insiders who are to make a reasoned judgement as to who would be the best nominee. There are no secondary indicators codified by the rules. Supers are free to make their best judgement. Maybe I'm nuts, silly, schizoid or just need more cowbell, but the railroading of Sen. Clinton's campaign to a siding based on the math is by far the most bitter pill I have been asked to swallow as a voter in my entire life. It makes Bush v Gore taste like one of them tasty Skittles in comparison, a vast improvement, relatively speaking.
Consider, if you will, this argument. It is said, over and over by the Obama campaign and some in the media, that for the Supers to choose Sen. Clinton for the nomination would be to "take it away" from Sen. Obama. Yet, if the delegates were tallied in a "winner take all" fashion, the same one utilized in the general, it is Sen. Obama who would already have lost. So, far from threatening the Obama campaign with a grave injustice, these muddled and byzantine rules are the only reason his amazing candidacy is still drawing breath.
Do I, and therefore Sen. Clinton, have an argument here?