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March 05, 2008
Thuggery
Harold Ickes apparently floated the idea that the pledged delegates can legally switch candidates. Nice. Oliver warns the Clinton campaign not to try to steal the pledged delegates:
Here's the deal: if they try to pull this and any delegates actually follow along, they've destroyed the party and given the fall election to John McCain. Diehard loyal Democrats like myself will not accept this brand of thuggery and as a result - no matter our heartfelt desire to see a Democrat in the White House - will tell the party to go take a flying leap off a pier. If she wants to be the nominee, she needs to win the delegates. If she wins the delegates legitimately, then she's the nominee and she will be supported. But if the Clinton campaign becomes an echo of the 2000 Bush campaign she'll join John Kerry, Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale.
I've done a lot of yelling recently about the fear mongering and how, because of it, I couldn't bring myself to support Senator Clinton if she somehow weaseled her way to the nomination. I might still vote for her, but I certainly wouldn't make the effort to campaign for her on the blogs, on the ground or elsewhere. But should the Clintons attempt to steal away pledged delegates... well, then... I would be much more inclined to agree with Oliver about the flying leap thing.
Posted By Bob Cesca | March 5, 2008 05:30 PM | DIGG ME!
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You're a better man than me, Bob. There's no way in hell I'll vote for her if she tears the party apart in this manner. I'll work like hell to make sure Democrats are elected the House and Senate, but I won't voter for her. She'll almost certainly lose against McCain. I'll just hunker down and try to get some Dems into Congress to keep him from causing too much trouble, but I'll be damned if I'll give her my vote if she destroys the Party. I have a feeling a lot of Obama supporters would feel the same way. We can't just reward her because she's somehow the Democratic candidate. She has to earn it.
I like the comparison to Bush's campaign in 2000 and 2004. Is it me, or does it look like George Bush & Co, and now Clinton & Co., are trying to smash their parties to pieces so that they can then remake them in their own image? Or at the very least, weaken them so that they can then operate independently of the party's ideology?
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at March 5, 2008 07:05 PM
Excellent point Nano. It sure does, doesn't it?
Posted by: lnbno13 at March 5, 2008 07:25 PM
The fact that she is trying to stealing pledge delegates only proves how damn desperate she is to win. She will destroy this party's real chance for 4 delegates...simply pathetic.
Posted by: KidDynamo0 at March 5, 2008 07:41 PM
Lookit, I'm going to have to choke live to near death to vote for her to begin with!
WHY would I vote for her if she acts exactly like the thug we're trying to be shed of?
NO WAY! She is a disgrace already! She cares nothing for the party, We The People, or what's best for this nation. The only thing driving her is pure, blind, ruthless ambition and power lust, some fantasy triumphal return to the White House, whether the people want her there or not.
She's a hairs breath away from turning me totally away from doing ANY further voting in this election, and I'd JUST resigned myself to supporting her if she got the nomination.
SHE NEEDS TO GO AWAY!
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Posted by: siri at March 5, 2008 07:50 PM
And thanks, Bob. Your work and words are TEH BOMB!
Posted by: siri at March 5, 2008 07:52 PM
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