This in from HuffPo, the Clinton campaign is openly declaring their intent to steal the democratic nomination through arcane parliamentary procedures.
Many of us knew they were not above it, but the audacity to publicly proclaim it is enough to send shivers down one's spine. If even more evidence were needed to confirm that the Clintons will do anything to obtain/retain power, it has now arrived.
Here's how they spin it:
There is no secret plan.... The Clinton campaign has been vocal in stating that the votes of 2.5 million people must be respected. Hardly a day goes by when a Clinton official doesn't publicly declare that the votes of Michigan and Florida count and that the delegations from those states should be seated.
Here's how they plan to do it:
Hillary Clinton's campaign has a secret weapon to build its delegate count, but her top strategists say privately that any attempt to deploy it would require a sharp (and by no means inevitable) shift in the political climate within Democratic circles by the end of this month.
With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives. The Obama campaign has declined to give an estimate.
Using the Rules and Bylaws Committee to force the seating of two pro-Hillary delegations would provoke a massive outcry from Obama forces. Such a strategy would, additionally, face at least two other major hurdles, and could only be attempted, according to sources in the Clinton camp, under specific circumstances:
Obviously, Clinton has no plans to drop out of this race no matter how she does in the remaining primaries. Clearly she intends to capture the nomination no matter what the consequences. Frightening!