Hillary Would Like To See All Delegate Slots Returned To Michigan, Florida

The Whistler • January 26, 2008

Of course, she feels that way now after she won in Michigan unopposed and is currently leading in Florida.

This is a very, very, very big deal. From the Clinton campaign:

I hear all the time from people in Florida and Michigan that they want their voices heard in selecting the Democratic nominee.
I believe our nominee will need the enthusiastic support of Democrats in these states to win the general election, and so I will ask my Democratic convention delegates to support seating the delegations from Florida and Michigan. I know not all of my delegates will do so and I fully respect that decision. But I hope to be President of all 50 states and U.S. territories, and that we have all 50 states represented and counted at the Democratic convention.
I hope my fellow potential nominees will join me in this.
I will of course be following the no-campaigning pledge that I signed, and expect others will as well.

This is the sort of decision that has the potential to tear the party apart.

Well, yeah. If the Democratic National Committee retroactively gives Michigan and Florida all of their delegates back (both states had half of their delegates removed after they moved their primary dates up without the DNC’s consent) after Hillary wins it will be a blatant act of favoritism for the Clintons. Not to mention a decidedly un-democratic maneuver for the party which calls itself the “Democratic” one.
If the DNC had decided to do this before one of the states had held its primary there would be no problem. All of the candidates would have been given an equal amount of time to respond to the news and campaign accordingly. But doing it after a primary has been held in one state just favors the person who one that state. A point that’s especially important since Hillary ran basically unopposed in Michigan.
Part of me actually wouldn’t mind seeing the Democrats tear themselves apart over this. But the other part of me, the one interested in a fair and transparent political process, thinks this would be a terrible thing.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics, The Loony Left

Ombre Rose

Yyou are right – it would be a really TERRIBLE idea, a really really HORRIBLE idea – lex majoris partis rule= democracy/republicanism -VS- favor of persons=ROYALTY

lex majoris partis means the RULES are established by MAJORITY RULE and they are NOT CHANGED for FASCINATION OF CELEBRITIES.

That is why Ruby Julie Annie is an unacceptable candidate in ANY election, after he offered to let voters in NYC set aside the Bloomburg Election for his sake, in Fall 2002.

That is why the Dims were NOT allowed the change the rules MID-COUNT in Florida in 2000 or 2004.

That is why the Dim Party should NOT change their rules MID PRIMARY SEASON, or ANY point POST-PRIMARY 2008 DEBUT.

That is (the kind of inherent thinking of the Dim Party that is the reason) why the Dim Party lost the South!

That is why we can be SURE that sometime before the Dim Party Convention gets around to counting delegates, THEY WILL "RELENT" and include the MISCALCITRANT STATES who violated "THE RULES" – that suddenly don't seem so very important at all, anymore.

"The first principle of republicanism is that the lex majoris partis is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights; to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority of a single vote as sacred as if unanimous is the first of all lessons in importance, yet the last which is thoroughly learnt. This law once disregarded, no other remains but that of force, which ends necessarily in military despotism." –Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1817. ME 15:127
2Hotel9

Funny, Democrats say they are all about performing the will of the People, and yet when the People who are members of the DNC expressed their will to have earlier primaries the Democrats refused to perform their will and also punished the People for exercising their God given rights to do as they decide to do. There is a word for that. It also applies to a woman who claims to be a strong feminist, and in the same breath says she will not leave the husband who has, and continues to, commit adultery. What could that word be?
http://www.neofascist.org/ Socialist

the Democrats refused to perform their will and also punished the People for exercising their God given rights to do as they decide to do.

I agree, but this entire primary process is crap. The front-loading of this entire process, on both sides, is just another step towards a fascist dictatorship because it doesn't allow enough time for the primary process to work and allow people more time to look at the candidates and make an informed decision.

No matter who wins, it's just another installation of the next corporate puppet.
http://Array 2Hotel9

Either you need to back off the meth or double the dose.
Eneils Bailey

Evidently,

Doubling the dose technique works really well.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

This is yet another reason why the Democrats are not Democratic.

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