Mar 05 2008

Today on NPR: Dean Reminds States/Clinton there are actually Rules

Published by Gus at 8:24 pm under Uncategorized

clipped from www.dailykos.com
Dean: “…you’ve got to stick to the rules…I wish Florida and Michigan had done that, because it would make this much easier. ?But once the rules are set, everybody knows who’s running for president what the rules are. And if you change the rules in the middle of the game you’re disadvantaging or advantaging one of the candidates. That you cannot do because it destroys the credibility of the process. ?

   

Honestly, what the heck were our MI party leaders thinking? I couldn’t even vote for my candidate because his name wasn’t even on the ballot, and YOU WANT TO COUNT THE RESULTS OF THAT SHAM PRIMARY??It is completely beyond me how Clinton can possibly argue with any credibility that either Michigan or Florida delegations should be seated in their current proportions. You knew the rules, these two states decided not to follow DNC rules unlike the 48 other states who did and got to be a part of the process. Clinton, as usual, will do anything, stoop to any level to try and win this nomination, one of the reasons I can’t stand her. If the two states hadn’t picked her, do you really think she’d be arguing for this now? NO. She is not entitled to nor does she deserve this nomination and I’m not real sure why she thinks she is. This is supposed to be a democracy last I checked, not a hereditary oligarchy or anything.

You want to have a re-vote with Obama on the ballot and a chance to campaign here, fine. But no way in hell are you getting away with changing the rules in the middle of the game.

I wholeheartedly applaud Chairman Dean for his comments today about knowing and sticking by the rules of the game as they were set out last year.

One Response to “Today on NPR: Dean Reminds States/Clinton there are actually Rules”

  1. # EFGjron 11 Mar 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Lets see. isn’t a re-vote changing the rule? Sounds like DNC doublespeak to me. Dean cannot even stick to his guns on one simple rule. One way or another they will change the rule to suit their needs. It sounds like their going to try and do a mail-in vote similar to Oregon’s past mail-ins. I agree it was a masterful misque; they should have seen this coming before they even made the rule. Typical reaction to unruly children; being reactionary and having no foresight [this could probably be applied to many other situations as well where they've totally goofed up their message]. It’ll be interesting to see how they do recover from this obvious disaster.

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