Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Crazy's Take on The Democrats and their Latest Idiocies

Hey all, I know so far we've kept it pretty loose in terms of what we've talked about, but now its about time we had some grownup time. So gather around, my peeps, and I will weave you a tale of retardedness and ineptitude that will cost the Democratic Party of the United States possibly the easiest win in Presidential history.

The Democratic National Committe, in its infinite wisdom, has had a restriction on the states for their primaries could not be held before February 5th. This was the way the DNC kept the Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada in the spotlight because, lets be honest, none of those states have anything going for them except Nevada (gambling and legalized prostitution, but they also have nuclear waste depots, so i would call it a wash). However, the state legislatures in Florida and Michigan decided to push up their primaries because they felt Iowa and New Hampshire had unfair advantages in choosing who the next presidental candidate would be. Newsflash: those states have like a combined .2 delegates. In terms of actually choosing the president, they have about as much say as Guam and Puerto Rico. The only reason they have any real say is because the media gives them a say by covering them insanely. Also hilarious, not a single democrat cast a vote in these vote to push up the primary. It passed amongst republican and third party officials 21-17, if the democrats had any common sense and had cost a vote against the measure, they might have disenchfranchised all their constituents.
So over the weekend the DNC decided to seat the delegates and give them each a 1/2 of a vote. Clinton voted the delegates fully seated, because essentially she would have carried both states' delegates because of the demographics favored her as well as the fact that since Obama didnt campaign in either state (his name wasnt even on the ballot in Michigan). However, the point seems to be moot now, with the South Dakota and Montana primaries all but giving Obama the nomination, Clinton still refuses to abdicate her position in the race. She has begun to say that she is welcome to the possibility of the vice president position, but but just refusing to remove herself from the race, she continues to run the risk of alienating the rest of the Democratic Party and making Obama unwinable come November.

Obama's first job now is to try and unite the Democratic party. During the primaries, the young, the educated, black voters, and upper class Dems all leaned towards him. However, Hispanics, older voters, and blue collar Democrats all leaned towards Clinton. During the primaries, there were multiple polls that showed that if one person's candidate didnt win, then they wouldnt vote for the winner. If Obama cant even rally the majority of the Democrats to his side, he's never going to be able to get undecided voters to come over (let alone all the problems he's gonna run into the south just for being a black guy running for president, the one thing everybody doesnt seem to want to bring up). Hillary needs to do as much as she can to try and get her supporters to get on the Obama bandwagon, convince those who wanted her "experience" that Obama is more than capable of taking on the challenge. If Hillary remains too close to his campaign, then Barack loses all the momentum of the "reformer" that he's been carrying since Iowa. And if he doesn't have that, he's got nothing. And the democrats will have nobody to complain to when on January 20th Chief Justice Roberts is swearing in President McCain.

2 comments:

Greg said...

pretty much nothing new here, but a good read. looking forward to the obama/mccain breakdown. hilldog is a non issue at this point.

condy rice for mccain vp? black and a chic, how can you lose.

Crazy said...

only if you wanna tie down mccain with more bush-ites... he's gotta do just enough to get the crazy jesus republicans and ditch the rest... i'd give it to a young slightly right leaning governor, too bad they dont exist... but I'll throw it out there McCain/Spitzer... We shine with Client 9!!