Josh Marshall, of the Talking Points Memo website, spoke out against the recent news of Hillary Clinton trying to make a desperate play for Florida against the rules of the Democratic National Convention. Hillary Clinton is breaking the campaign pledge not to campaign in Florida. She doesn't play by the rules anymore, clearly so, and this is the kind of woman we want in the White House?
More from Josh Marshall below the jump:
The Clinton camp really needs to be shut down on this new gambit of theirs to muscle the party and the other candidates into seating the Michigan and Florida delegate slates.
Ouch. More from Josh below again:
Even that was a matter of her basically pulling a fast one on the other candidates by not taking her name off the ballot. Each of the major candidates signed a pledge not to "campaign or participate" in any primary or caucus prior to Feb. 5th except for Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. The other major candidates adopted what seems like the only reasonable interpretation of the pledge (see text here) and pulled their names from the ballot.
This is another pattern of Hillary Clinton here. When the rules of the game don't gain you the advantage, lie, cheat, and break the rules of the game in order to win.
But all these particulars are secondary to the principle, which is that you don't change the rules in midstream to favor one candidate or another...(sic) But everyone else should see this for what it is and say No.