We hold these truths to be self-evident:
Pigs like the smell of pigs. E Coli are determined to take over the digestive tract. And insiders think insiders should run everything.
Insider and one-time superdelegate Geraldine Ferraro (a Clinton campaigner) thinks that Democratic insiders should be able to pick the party’s nominee. That, in fact, is the subhead of her Op-Ed piece in Monday’s New York Times.
Superdelegates, she says, "were created to lead, not to follow. They were, and are, expected to determine what is best for our party and best for the country. I would hope that is why many superdelegates have already chosen a candidate to support."
Well, that’s one reason, Geraldine. Another reason is money. The Center for Responsive Politics just issued a report on campaign contributions made to superdelegates (most of whom are sitting congressmen) by the Clinton and Obama campaigns. Their conclusion:
"Campaign contributions have been a generally reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take."
Is that your idea of leadership, Geraldine? To follow the money? Weren’t you once censured on campaign finances by the House Ethics Committee?
Geraldine also thinks the superdelegates should decide to seat the "delegates" from the non-elections in Florida and Michigan. Presumably, for the right price they very well might do that.
That would make Harold Ickes happy. He’s the Clinton campaign strategist who said last week in a conference call with reporters that superdelegates are more in touch with the issues important to voters than the voters are. Amazing. Then why hold primaries?
Just who are these supernatural beings who always know what’s best and who know the voters’ minds better than the voters themselves?
Could they possibly be the same Democratic congress people who have spent the last seven years kowtowing to George Bush, cowering in the corners and giving him every ugly, ignorant, arrogant, unconstitutional perversion of government power his tantrums demand?
Is it their all-knowing wisdom that has kept on playing patsy to Bush even after 70% of the voters in America had come to realize that this man and his administration are a comprehensive disaster?
These are our super-leaders, who can’t win a fight or defend a principle even when they have control of Congress and the president’s approval rating is 28%?
Go back where you came from, Geraldine.
You are part and parcel of the dirty laundry that Obama is promising to change and that Democratic voters are rejecting by overwhelming margins.
Cross posted from The Horse You Rode In On