Posted on 04/03/2016 5:55:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Why is John Kasich still in the campaign? Ted Cruz has to get 87% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination. Donald Trump will never get enough delegates to stop a brokered (read that contested) convention. Controversy everywhere. If it bleeds it leads. But the real story is how the Democratic bosses have stolen the nominating process for Hillary Clinton from the vastly more popular Bernie Sanders, everyone’s favorite socialist running for president.
Sanders captured three states (Hawaii, Alaska and Washington) -- and by substantial margins --and the next day the talk was about him getting out of the race. I was watching Fox News Sunday and a man of the Left (Juan Williams) and a man of the Right (Jason Riley) concurred on the fact that Sanders is dead meat and is only angling for a big speech at the convention.
I could understand if this guy was drawing 100-person crowds and getting John Kasich-like numbers in primaries, but that is clearly not the case. As of the writing of this column, The Congenital Liar (TCL) has won 1,243 delegates and the kindly, old Socialist has won 975. With the total number necessary to win the nomination being 2,383 delegates, one could easily judge this to be a horse race with a couple of furloughs to go.
Not so in the “Democratic” Party, where the will of people does not matter. They have what they call superdelegates (which is a nice way to say Party Bosses; or, if you don’t like that term, Insiders or better yet The Establishment). TCL leads the Socialist by a current count of 469 to 29 in that count, spreading her lead over him to 708 delegates and making her close to being the nominee.
Just think what might be happening out there without this manipulation of the nomination process. The candidate drawing the bigger crowds and winning quite frequently would be perceived as the one with the momentum toward gaining the party ring. Instead of speaking about Sanders throwing in the towel, the press would be hounding TCL about whether she is going to collapse again like she did in 2008.
What we don’t know is how many of the party bosses might change their allegiance to Sanders and tip the nomination his way. He has the crowds and the fundraising, and he performs much better in the general election polling than TLC who has a choo-choo train full of baggage going into the general election. These superdelegates are fickle (after all they are politicians) so we don’t know at this point if they are going to change their horse prior to the finish line. Clinton bought them off, so why couldn’t Sanders offer them more and buy them his way?
How do you become a superdelegate? Simple; be part of The Establishment. Here is the list:
· A current or former president of the United States
· A current or former vice president of the United States
· A member of Congress, either in the House of Representatives or the Senate
· A governor — this includes governors of U.S. territories, like American Samoa, and the mayor of Washington D.C.
· A former majority or minority leader in the Senate
· A former speaker of the House or minority leader in the House of Representatives
· A member of the Democratic National Committee — this includes the chair and vice chair of each state’s Democratic Party, as well as 200 members elected to the DNC throughout the country by state parties
· A former chair of the DNC
Aren’t these the very people Sanders’ people are rebelling against? An estimated 714 establishment types are stealing the will of the people. It would be different if Sanders had only 300 delegates from the people, but he is within striking distance of TCL.
Of course, these rules were made by the people who would be designated as superdelegates, for their own benefit to protect their own interests. After all isn’t that what the establishment does -- thwart the will of the people? As the Wall Street Journal states “One reason Mr. Sanders get no respect is because Democratic elites prefer a nominee who disguises her socialism better than he does.” Where is Rodney Dangerfield when you need him?
If the Republicans had a similar process, we might be talking about Jeb Bush cruising to the nomination. But the fix isn’t in for the Republicans like it is for the Democrats.
The supporters of Sanders should not take this lying down. They have to fight this distortion of our election and nominating procedures even if it means protests at and in the Democrats’ Convention. To come this far and have their candidate lose because of backroom deals stealing his rightfully, deserved nomination should not stand.
It’s about time the national press takes the Democrats to task for 19th century Boss Tweedy hijacking of their party. Even if it means rioting in the streets of Philadelphia, the press should stop picking the Democrats’ nominee for them.
Correct, and the Founders called them "factions", and were dead set against them.
The idea that the primary election system (with regard to major party nominations for President) somehow expresses the desires of "the People" is ridiculous. There's no qualification system for electors. I voted in the Democratic primary in NH in 2008, and there's nobody further from being a Democrat than me.
You're onto something with the Uniparty, though. If you conceptualize the primaries as a single party event, to choose the top two for a runoff in November, it kinda makes more sense.
Because the press is a bunch of paid off traitors to the Republic.
So will the de berned supporters go Hillary or switch parties? Will they stay home as conservatives are threatening.
A question I have asked many times, especially of Democrats who fancy themselves fair, open, honest, etc.
Sanders is much more likely to win a general election than Hillary Clinton, IMO - but of course the ticket of Biden/Warren was chosen more than six months ago, so the question of Sanders OR Clinton is kind of irrelevant.
same old questions...no answers ......
I think you’re right.
This is a massive spin operation. Maybe to try to hide something (You and I both know what, but I’m not talking about it, because there is still no real “there” there)
They’re clearly working this at the moment. It would be interesting to know why.
There’s rigging going in both parties going on like I told my wife, a Democrat for Bernie, last night at the dinner table.
The Republicans have their split the delegate rules for the many of the conservative southern states and Texas, then the winner take all formats in more liberal states.
They only ‘bind’ delegates to candidates on the first ballot, but the delegates themselves are picked at a party meeting and are mostly Republican Establishment loyalists.
In Illinois were there actual candidates Republicans voted for as delegates with their Presidential candidate listed next to them.
The Democrats unelected “Superdelegates” force Bernie to win big or lose. Sanders has to get at least 55 percent of the popular vote in each state to break even with Hillary in delegates in most states under the strict proportional rules of the Democrat Party.
Much the same on the Left or Right side. The Uniparty say...
Might explain why Cruz is no longer taking open questions from the Press. You never know when one of them might go off the reservation and ask that question again.
Because the fifth-column leftist media are morally demonicrat.
“By Democrats, do you mean to include include about 90% of today’s media in that list??”
I’m sorry, I should have been more clear. In my view the term Democrat is synonymous with communist, liberal, progressive and the media.
Okay....personally, I would expect that the “there” there would certainly be brought of IF Cruz were to get the nomination - all the forces on earth couldn’t stop that because the enemy, having defeated their real fear (Trump), would proceed business as usual - hold your dirt for the last battle.
I can virtually guarantee you that IF he does come out of the convention with a nomination, he will be asked that question OVER and OVER again by Democrats and media, nonstop until Hillary beats him. No question in my mind about that at all.
Because they want the democrats to think that they are democratic. The democrat strategists aren’t out there talking about it every hour, in fact I don’t know if Bernie talks about it.
They are busy, right now, twisting arms, wining and dining, pressuring delegates to follow the Establishment’s lead. We can’t beat them because we aren’t there! Our votes don’t count!
You completely missed the point of the article.
Because one rat is as good/bad as another. Bernie might wreck what’s left of the country a little faster, is all.
The proper term is “DEMOCRAT presidential nomination.” They want you to say democratic because it sounds better but it has been the Democrat Party for many decades.
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