In case you haven’t noticed, one of our political parties is in a mess. I can hear conservatives across the nation muttering, “Damn right! That (fill in your preferred expletive here) McCain!” But it’s not the Republican Party that’s in a mess; well at least not relative to the other party anyway.
The Dem party is in far worse shape than the Reps. Here’s why.
They have a primary season that looks as if it might not produce a clear winner.
They have an odd thing called the Super Delegate. These are about 800 party potentates and grandees that can act as king maker at the convention because they are not bound to any primary or caucus result. The 800 just vote for which ever candidate promises the most. How un-American can you get? Sure all delegates are equal only some delegates are more equal than others.
They have to at some point deal with MI and FL. The delegates in those two states have been stripped by the party for moving their primaries in front of Super Tuesday. The Shrillda Beast is claiming those delegates because she won the non-primary primary in both states. The only problem is that hers was the only name on the ballet in MI and Mr. Undecided still got over 40% of the vote. In FL candidates agreed not to campaign but the Shrillda held a “victory rally” after the primary – breaking the spirit of the agreement if not the letter.
They have the Clinton war machine that will kick in at minute. Many seem to believe that Obama will be on a 10 state winning streak come the OH TX primaries in Mar. They are beginning to look at Obama as inevitable. But Rush Limbaugh offered this accurate mental picture yesterday, “Until you see her [Shillda's] feet curled up and protruding from beneath a house, don’t count the Clintons out.” The Clintons will kick into high gear very soon begin to try to smear and destroy Obama, which is sure to further fracture the party.
They have the whole identity politics thing to overcome. While it’s perfectly OK for women and blacks to base their votes solely on which candidate looks like them, when white men do the exact same thing they are called misogynistic racists.
As an aside, did you see where Bill Clinton claimed that he’d waited his whole life to vote for a woman or a black for president and now he’s forced to choose between them in the same primary? Poor Billy. Question Bill, if you were so interested in voting for a woman or a black for president, why didn’t you select one as your running mate, ya lying pant load?
By contrast the Reps have identified their candidate early, if not enthusiastically. The conservatives will come home once they begin to realize what the option of not coming home is.
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