And you democrats, drunk with the sense of White House entitlement after the W years, thought your little vote was going to count for something.
How quaint.
Turns out about 40 percent of the delegates needed to secure the nomination are controlled by “super delegates,” elected officials like members of congress and party bigwigs. With the increasingly likely event that neither Clinton nor Obama will have the nomination locked up by convention time, these people will decide who wins.
I wonder what kind of promises you could extract in exchange? Ambassador to Italy? Want to be a federal judge? Got a lame defense project that generates a lot of jobs in your district? No problem.
Guess the masses can’t quite be trusted to decide who represents the party. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Early money would probably have bet on Billary, but with the Ted and Caroline Kennedy backing Obama, we could be looking at a low grade civil war among democrats to decide the nominee.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Blast from the Past: Return of the Smoke Filled Room
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
The Shotgun Wedding: It Ain't Gonna Happen
Finally, someone states the obvious, for the record:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/04/roland.martin/index.html
Forgive my lack of political correctness, but if you're already pushing the envelope on breaking new ground, you're not going to undermine your chances of winning by upping the ante. If Obama wins, he'll likely choose an older white guy with foreign policy experience. Like Joe Biden. Hillary needs someone who actually wants the job despite the prospect of Bill lurking in the West Wing. Like Evan Bayh.
Their recent kissy face debate performance notwithstanding, let's not forget they hate each other. If Hillary wins and actually offers it to Obama, he would probably take it and who knows, I could be wrong (and often am) and maybe he helps. If he wins, NFW he puts her on the ticket.
The Mitt Hits the Fan
Despite garnering an amazing 100% of the comedian/political cartoonists' vote, Mittens lost in the South, in the West and in the East, but yet I'm torn over the potential loss of Mittens from the race. For the health of the country, I yearn for the body politic to drive a stake through the heart of the Romney campaign, but would suffer an overwhelming sense of loss if deprived of Mittens schadenfreude.
