If super delegates must reflect the will of the people, why have them?..... BECAUSE.......
Posted on 03/16/2008 6:20:07 PM PDT by cdchik123
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reiterated her position Sunday that superdelegates should reflect the will of voters in the Democratic nominating process — a nod to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), whose campaign is making the same case.
“If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party,” Pelosi said in a pretaped interview with ABC’s “This Week.”
A pair of Obama surrogates made the same case.
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said, “I think the superdelegates, in the end, will ratify the will of the people and the pledged delegates.”
And former Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) went even further on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he suggested superdelegates who buck their constituents may face a primary fight during the next election.
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Then why have them?
We know.
What’s the point of having superdelegates, then?
Superdelegates were created to make sure the “voter’s will” wasn’t all wrong, like it was in 1972.
Triumph of the Will, eh Nancy?
Then why have them at all?
Nancy better watch out. All the botox in the world won’t save her from the Clintoon payback.
“Pelosi (D-Calif.) reiterated her position Sunday that superdelegates should reflect the will of voters”
ROTFLMAO! Big time! During clintoon impeachment, the RATS position was “vote your conscience.”
Pelosi is the DNC chairwoman i believe. I think she helps decides the final rules or something. If she is ever called on to “work out a deal” like I have read, it’s pretty obvious she is in the tank for Obama.
If super delegates must reflect the will of the people, why have them?
This Nomination Process is loaded with ironies for Dem!!!
All their lives these people have played race and gender cards against their opponents and now they are playing it against each other.
When the ‘Ebony vs Ovary’ battle is over, the ELITISTS respresented by Super Delegates would decide the results! That’s what Dems are.....with all the talk about ‘little guys’, they have always been and will always be LIBERAL ELITISTS who want to control everything sitting comfortably in their Drachas.
One can only imagine the political hay the Democrats would make if the Republicans had a system of “superdelegates” and said superdelegates were to tilt the nomination away from the popular vote. Of course, the Dhimmicrats could get away with exactly that because the Republicans lack the political killer instinct to use it against them.
Obama is over but he'll still take the delegate count. He can't win now for love or money. Hillary is their only chance but they hate the Clintons so bad that they won't swing the nomination to her.
They really have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Like it was preordained or sumpin'.
Here's hoping McCain has long coat tails 'cuz the rats will have none.
Frankly I am only interested in getting/keeping the Clintons out of power after what has been done during the 90s.
Putting down this imbecile Obama to the point where Hillary is viewed as more favorable is IMO playing with fire.
Let the Democrats kick Hillary's ass, and then we all in “congress” can work to belittle Obama and “our” own imbecile McCain.
Lets get the Clintons out on a rail.
How tough of an agenda is that to appreciate?
When has a democrat ever reflected VOTERS WILL ?
Including the dead ones?
And if Hillary were winning the popular vote, she would say exactly the opposite.
I disagree. I should think the superdelegates are intended to step in when something comes to light late in the nominating process like oh, say, one of the contenders turns out to be a race baiting black supremacist.
And they want to be in charge of my health care?
That’s the problem with the democrat party. It is a coalition of “Groups” that really don’t like each other very much. It’s not that hard to get them to eat each other. This is the first thing that’s given me any hope for the fall, since we’re running with a (Mc)lame candidate.
I agree and urge every Democrat Superdelegate to vote for Barry Fitzgerald Obama.
Not only will the blacks riot and destroy their cities, but they won't vote for Shrillary and McCain will win.
Words cannot express how amusing this all is. :)
The rats are down to no good choices. Anyway they play it now, they're doomed.
Check and mate...
Combined ticket.
Never happen.
If super delegates must reflect the will of the people, why have them?..... BECAUSE.......
Sprinkle in the count all the disenfranchised votes and we have the D'Rat perfect storm trifecta!
LOL! Exactly right. Hildabeast has already accused Obama in Nevada, Texas Caucuses, and MI and FL votes, of disenfranchizing voters.
Obama needs to accuse her of ‘Vote Suppression’ and we are there! ;o)
I agree with your logic, according to my understanding of the superdelegate concept. The superdelegates ( if the convention were today) SHOULD support thunderthighs. If they do, then watch the sh*t hit the fan!
That would be just like putting two cats in a large suitcase and closing it.
Um ... looks more to me like putting a scorpion and a butterfly in the same bottle. But it won't happen. Obama has already refused the #2 spot, and he surely knows that in putting Hitlery as #2 he would be signing his own death warrant.
I'm hoping for a deadlocked convention with Al Gore as the last minute Idiot on the White (non flatulant) Horse. Mass abstention by blacks and women follows.
Never happen.
We had best hope that is correct.
But, we really do not know at this point.
No, but we can make an educated guess and put our money down. My money’s on ‘Never happen’.
No, but we can make an educated guess and put our money down. My money’s on ‘Never happen’.
The voters don't have a will - they do what the MSM tells them to. ;)
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