Democracy for Vancouver

Because she’ll still lose:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.

Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party’s legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.

The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday at a Washington hotel. The committee is considering ways to include the two important general election battlegrounds at the nominating convention in August, and the staff analysis says seating half the delegates is “as far as it legally can” go.
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The analysis said there are two options to include half the delegations - either allow half the number of delegates from each state into the convention or allow the full delegations to attend, but give them each half a vote.

This is where Clinton either gets off the bus or announces that she’s going to fuck the rules, the Dems and the country, because even if she’s granted all of the allowed 50% of the delegates from Florida and Michigan (half of 210 for Florida and half of 128 for Michigan), she’s still behind in the count.

And, as anyone who’s been paying attention knows, Hillary shouldn’t get a single delegate from either Florida or Michigan, and nor should Barack Obama. Because both of them agreed that Florida and Michigan wouldn’t count.

Obama took himself off the ballot in Michigan (Hillary conveniently missed the deadline to remove her name, but said it didn’t matter because “everyone knows” Michigan and Florida don’t count). Florida wouldn’t allow either candidate to remove themselves from the ballot, but again, both candidates agreed not to campaign in Florida, and both agreed that FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN WOULDN’T COUNT.

But, fuck that, right Hillary?

I would say, fine, take the fucking delegates, you still can’t win, but we all know the Clintons too well by now.

Giving Sen. Clinton those 169 delegates would be tantamount to an engraved invitation to the convention: “I’m so close, it would be undemocratic to do anything but take it to Denver and let the delegates decide.”

So, again, superdelegates, unless you want a bloodbath on the floor of the Pepsi Center, you’d better start picking sides, and make sure either Clinton or Obama has an insurmountable, credible, and unassailable lead before the Convention - hell, we need to make it plain before the summer media doldrums set in. Doesn’t the 3rd of July have a nice ring to it?

Because we cannot win in November if we don’t have a candidate until August.

There are only 67 days between the DNC and the general election. We cannot beat the GOP machine in 67 days - especially when they’ll have been hammering on us as indecisive weenies between their June coronation of McCain and our Mile High clusterfuck.

Superdelegates, I am begging you. Seriously.