Friday, 7 March 2008

Democratic crime and punishment

Let me get this straight: the Democrats penalized Michigan and Florida for holding their primaries early, because those states wanted to have disproportionate influence on the nomination process. And the proposed remedy for the situation is that Michigan and Florida may get “do-overs” and thus have disproportionate influence over the nomination process—likely even more influence than they would have had their delegations been counted in the first place (or even if the DNC had been as sensible as the Republicans and just docked them 50% of their delegates, which would have knocked down all the silly Bush v. Gore II arguments that got us to this point).

Is there a planet in the universe where this makes any sense whatsoever? Your Democratic National Committee—making the rules up as they go along.

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I am not decided on whether there should be a do-over (as a Republican I dont’ have a dog in that race anyway – or in the GOP primary race, but I digress), but in no way would I support seating the Michigan and Florida delegates. Those two primaries were held under the agreement that they wouldn’t really count, so Obama didn’t campaign there. Seating those delegates would amount to fraud.

 
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