The Tyranny of Super-Delegates (will Super Delegates save Hillary?)

nation ^ | jan 2007 | the always entertaining moonbat Katrina vanden Heuvel

[doug from upland]

Behind the scenes, I believe that Clinton operatives are pleading with, intimidating, and bribing Super Delegates who have announced for her. They are reminding the SDs that the Clintons have raised huge amounts of money for their campaigns. They will also remind them that the Clintons never forget.

[Onerom99]

Imagine the shit that will hit the fan if the Super Delegates carry Hillary to a narrow win.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I hope she does get the nomination through such trickery and manipulation: It will turn off Barack Obama supporters and independents that would otherwise have voted for her in the general election. The only “broken glass” Hillary supporters that I can imagine are homosexuals, abortionists, Chinese money-launderers and people seeking a set-price pardon.

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow! I didn’t know this! In the coming months we could witnes a meltdown and civil war within the Democrat Party!

I’ll have my camera ready!

[mnehring]

I may actually enjoy watching Obama win and the left go into complete civil war when Hillary steals it through parlor tricks.

[KarlInOhio]

I would love to see if a significant majority of the elected delegates went for Obama, but the votes of the super delegates put the Bride of XXX-42 over the top. It would make the Chicago convention of 1968 look like an afternoon tea party. It couldn't happen to a nicer party.

[AmericaUnited]

Imagine the shit that will hit the fan if the Super Delegates carry Hillary to a narrow win.

Bingo! LotsTons of Obama supporters will sit out the election rather than voting for The Evil One.

[rbg81]

They will not go into civil war. If anything, they will breathlessly admire Hillary’s Stalinist coup.

[SandRat]

Beware of Hurricane Hillary 2008!

[GreyFriar]

I had totally forgotten about this

[Leisler]

The 1968er's Democrats know best for the party. Everyone else to the back of the convention center.

( For us, this is great fun. Oh the weeping and gnashing of teeth, the bitterness, the anger)

I can't wait 'til the convention.

[Morgan in Denver]

Doug, have you figured out how the Democrats will be able to blame President Bush for this one?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Doug, please excuse my ignorance but:

What the heck is a “super” delegate and what is their purpose?

And

Does the GOP have “super” delegates too?

[DJ Frisat]

Far be it from the Dems & Hillary to support this type of selection which subverts the popular vote and the will of the people! Aren’t these the same ass-clowns who cried for the abolition of the Electoral College after the election of 2000?

Amazing...

[curmudgeonII]

As we chortle and guffaw over Hillary's chances dropping lower than the morals of the New Englnad Patriots, it may do well to look at the alternative - Osama/Obama?

As bad as another Clinton in office would be, the Democrats that are left [pun intended] are much worse, now that Biden and Dodd are no longer running.

[kalee]

interesting. Wonder what Obama’s supporters think of this?
Some of these people are just newly engaging in politics and the Hilda beast stifles them.

[bill1952]

>Wow! I didn’t know this!

How on earth do people NOT know this??
Its been common knowledge for 35 years.

In 1988, Reverend Jesse Jackson challenged the notion that these appointed delegates be permitted to vote for the candidate of their choosing rather than the winner of the state's caucus or primary. He was right to do so.

He may have been "right" in some sense, but not in the sense of that old document "The Constitution."

The way in which individual States choose their electors is up to them, and political parties fall outside of the Constitution altogether.

Nothing whatsoever will come of any outcome except that the democrat party will select a candidate. - And the people of America have no legal standing in how they do that.

Then again, they don't have to vote for hillary. - but they will

[visualops]

I mentioned this in a couple of threads already. Dick Morris talked about it months ago. Unless Obama is able to consistently beat her by large enough margins that people get really pissed if he isn’t nominated, she will get the nomination. And since I’d like to see Thompson/Watts, I don’t want Obama nominated. You know if we put a black guy on the ticket against Obama that’s all we’ll hear “it’s only cuz he’s black” not on his merits, which would suck.

[doug from upland]

They are elected Dem officials. They have the right to support the candidate of their choice, no matter what the voters in their state want. Hillary has a majority of them. Republicans don’t have this system.

Here is an article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18277678/

[doug from upland]

Most people don’t know it.