Absolutely nuthin'. Say it again!
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Dean isn't handling the issue properly and should lose his job if he can't prevent a situation in which the nomination is decided by superdelegates, said Lionell Spruill, a superdelegate who serves in the Virginia House of Delegates and backs Clinton.
``If the superdelegates have to play a part at the convention, it would be bad for us in November,'' Spruill said.
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If the superdelegates have to play a part at the convention, it would be bad for us in November?! Then why have superdelegates? Didn't anybody think that eventually superdelegates would decide who the nominee was going to be? Let the party elites and elected reps be on the candidate's slate of delegates or have to run whatever gauntlet the local rules provide for becoming a delegate and then BE a delegate for the candidate you support! The reason for superdelegates is patronage, something that got the Republicans in serious trouble as far back as the Grant Administration. The superdelegates get something out of this process. The longer they wait, the better deals they will get out of this. Like most humans, they enjoy attention. It's not that Hillary won the other night, it's that Hillary is now in a position to give them something she wouldn't be had Obama won the popular votes in Ohio and Texas. It's not about delegates, people! It's about What's in this for me?
And by the way, aren't the Republicans happy to see headlines like Democrats Mired in Delegate Disarray? Once again, out of a sense of ultra-fairness while allowing the elites to get their asses kissed even more than they already do, the Democratic Party looks like a collection of flakes. It will be hard to get Independents and cross-over Republicans to go for that. The party has set up a system that looks so dysfunctional it carries over to how the public will perceive a Democratic administration.
We hear talk about the Clinton Campaign being in such disarray as a sign of how her administration will be. Obama's Campaign is smooth and therefore so will be his administration. No one else is going to care about that when the overall picture is a party that can't shoot straight. And I think we're all saying, Aw, Geez! Not FLORIDA again, aren't we?
One more thing: This is not some sales event or a Vet clinic, so let's stop with the "close the deal" and "put down" any one candidate. Whomever wins (and this includes McCain, Nader or Mickey Mouse), there's going to be a helluva mess to clean up. Voters like both candidates and not always for good reasons. Deal with it and be polite to each other. We aren't the problem unless we keep it up.
Mickey in '08!
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