Howard Dean Clarifies
In an interview today with Tim Russert, alleged new foe of the Democrats, Howard “Dean conceded that there is no set criteria laid out for the superdelegates on how they should vote. “They have to vote with their conscience,” he said. “My personal view is that they should vote for the person who can best beat John McCain.””
Earlier in the interview he said he wants the Super delegates to commit by the end of June because if they go into the convention in Denver divided, they will come out divided. Further he said he has never seen the Super delegates go against the will of the voting majority. He was not clear how Michigan and Florida votes figure into that calculation, but said one way or another they will somehow be seated. That’s clear.
I wonder who he believes can most handily beat John McCain? He did not clarify that and of course it would be an egregious move if he did but it seemed he was making it clear that the Super delegates can meet their original mandate, that of preventing the majority from making “mistakes” as the Democratic leadership believed has happened in several past primaries that yielded Muskie, Carter and Dukakis.
I agree with Jeffry Tubin, legal analyst for MSNBC who said last week that if the Democrats can not take the White House in 2008 they should change their party name to the Whigs.
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Comment by Angelene on 28 April 2008:
Sounds like Clinton has gotten to him. Oh well, that’s expected but the people will select our next president regardless. If the election is given to the person that does not have the most pledged delegates, then they can have this election because millions of us, Obama supporters will not vote, although we will not vote for McCain, Hillary will feel our wrath, believe me. I will go door to door to boycott the general election with thousands of my friends. If she somehow manages to end with the most pledged delegates, then we will say we lost fairly and move on with Hillary. But, we all know that is not going to happen.
So if they think that we are going to allow another stolen election like Bush, they can forget it, we will all suffer another four years and hope Obama comes back as an independant, we will ensure that he wins against both parties.
This is not and Obamanite, this is an Obama supporter that believes in the fact that when people play by the rules set out initially, they should not have the rules changed in the middle of the game to help out a fighting witch that will never get anything done in the WH.
Comment by sniff on 28 April 2008:
Angelene - Your puerile “eat worms and die” strategy is not only immature but simply foolish.
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