You know, if the Democrats ran the world (and that is still somewhat a hopeful notion),the New England Patriots would have had an undefeated season and been Superbowl champs this year.
Oh yeah, a crazy little thing called "regulation play" got in the way and the NY Giants won in the closing moments (hhmmm...political foreshadowing?) and the super Boston season went down in flames! Maybe we should shorten the game to 55 minutes to ensure that doesn't happen again, god forbid someone use all the time they are granted to pull a victory together and burst everyone else's bubble.
And so begins a rant about the Democratic Party. First, I would remove the notion that any delegates are "super" if they are bitching about the process they created and now don't like it! What a wanker that Joe Andrew is! Joe Andrews, the former head of the DNC had the audacity to claim, "a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to continue" a long, self-destructive Democratic campaign." Well hell, don't hate the playa, hate the game in which they have to play!
The Democrats can control what has turned into a mess! This primary process sucks and now they have to deal with it. If you don't want a dragged out process then set up a primary season that ends sooner (oops, Michigan and Florida did that and look what happened), or just get rid of the states you just don't like: tell Indiana and NC that "we don't really care what you say because you vote so late in the year!" The mere fact that states, who have rarely ever had a voice, for once matter, is being lost for a quick-fix solution to a problem the "leaders' of the party created: you want to dub them "Super"? Not me!
So it's damning to hear the leadership decry what's going on- a good old fashion democratic process; a vote for one, or another candidate, should represent that alone, not a vote for whether the process is lame or not!
Why should the people of NC or Indiana (or any state yet to vote) have to correct, through a symbolic gesture about the process, what they didn't screw up? Let their vote be for the person- not the process.
Don't like the outcome of dumb rules, fix them before the next game, but not midstream!
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This is why I love Howard Dean. Everytime he gets on a show he's asked about changing rules, or easy fixes for Michigan and Florida- he basically just says the same thing- we can't change the rules during the election. I know lots of people are wanting to kick him in the junk for the whole Michigan/Florida mess but honestly, honestly, he's not completely responsible. Or in my opinion, responsible at all.
As for a Democrat winning- my fingers are so crossed. There are parts of John McCain that I actually like, that I can tolerate- and that scares me.
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