Cenk, gavel too soon?
posted by gdoud 03/13/2008 01:50:22 AM EST
As someone who fears a Hillary candidacy, I was relieved to hear Cenk “bang the gavel” on Clinton. As one who has not “done the math,” I take him at his word on the count, although it is more optimistic than ones I have heard on CNN and MSNBC. But hey, who the fuck are those networks compared to TYT?
All ass licking aside, I was encouraged to hear that the math was insurmountable for Hillary. The percentages she will have to win by now, after Mississippi, would be 20 points or more in every state, plus Florida and Michigan, to make it close in pledged delegates. Because after all, the super delegates won’t go against the will of the people. No way! I mean, that would tear the party in half. They couldn’t be that stupid or self-destructive, and hand a victory to a Republican…
Oh wait, we’re talking about the Democratic party, aren’t we. Shit.
The Democratic Party, who hasn’t won a legislative victory over this President and his band of Republican thugs in the Senate (okay, give ‘em minimum wage), and who cower, buckle and TOTALLY cave in to the worst president in our history, when 70% of the American people are in sympathy with their position, AND when they have the majority. This fucking party of pussies who waver at every fight that needs fighting. These super delegates are going to stand up to a ruthless Clinton?
Don’t get your hopes up. I think one reason that Hillary and her campaign are acting so much like Karl Rove’s White House is because they know they will be able to bully Democrats if they do. They have seen it work, and they are smart enough, desperate enough and power-addicted enough to go there. They already are there with Obama, and it is working to a degree. They are working to make him unelectable when compared to McCain, and hoping this will change super delegates minds. And I can see them falling for it.
Democratic Party leaders can do the math too. If super delegates were set on following the will of the People, and they weren’t spineless, they would have intervened by now. McCain is going on two weeks of a free ride, while Hillary does his job for him. He gets to save his money, while she spends it on his behalf. Democratic party leaders know this, and have had time to talk to Hillary privately. It should be in the open by now – the statement that “party comes first, go home Hillary.” But we haven’t heard shit. The Democratic Party appears content to let Hillary split the party, make Obama unelectable, and then cower to the bully at the convention.
And then lose anyway in November.
And yes, this is the process that has been set up. You can argue that in fairness, if Obama can’t get 2000+ pledged delegates before August, that it should go to the convention and the super delegates. But that plan fucks us all, and we know it does. To let Hillary smear Obama until super delegates fear he couldn’t be elected Chicago’s dog catcher, to have Obama supporters so pissed at Hillary that they would rather vote for Dick Cheney’s evil twin than her, and to have let McCain coast through the summer, and pound a hated Clinton in the fall, and win the Presidency on an “Iraq for 100 years” ticket – man, it could be happening now.
Way to go Dems. God Dam It.
