Hillary Won’t Quit
May 22nd, 2008 at 04:42am Mark Noonan
The news story:
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight.
The presidential candidate said Wednesday, “Yes I will. I will, because I feel very strongly about this.”
Clinton is calling for delegates from both states to be seated at the convention based on the primaries. Both states were stripped of their delegates because they voted early, violating national party rules. Clinton won both states; Barack Obama’s name wasn’t on the Michigan ballot.
The DNC’s rules committee will hear an appeal on May 31.
Rich Lowry over at NRO points out that at the end of the day, Hillary may well end up with more popular votes, but still lose the nomination, in a bizarre repeat of 2000, but this time Democrats and MSMers not at all worried about the loser ending up winning…which demonstrates that their heartache in 2000 wasn’t over the man with less popular votes winning the White House, but the man not backed by the left winning the White House under any circumstances.
I actually feel a bit sorry for Hillary - she’s clearly the more qualified Democrat (though that isn’t saying too much), and it looks as though she’ll have won where it will matter most in November…but she’s still going to be tossed under the bus by a Democratic party deathly afraid of not nominating the first credible black candidate for President. Craftiness and cowardice are the hallmarks of Democratic politics these days, and it is a sad sight to see.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
2 Comments
1. Danish Artist | May 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Why should she quit?
Obama has more delegates, but Hillary has delegates and voters from key states that Obama needs to win in the general election.
Many people in my area are saying that Obama needs to offer Hillary the VP slot in order for any hope of winning those key states needed in the general election.
But Michelle Obama will squash that idea. The “lay off my wife” comment has developed a new layer. During a CBS Evening News story, Katie Couric found herself giggling around the Obama campaign headquarters. That’s when the camera happened to find this sheet of paper with a Barack declaration of POLICY: “Whatever Michelle Says Is The Message.” It is dated October 1, 2007.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/05/21/cbs-found-obama-rule-whatever-michelle-says-message
So now we know who will be running that White House, if elected - therefore Michelle is fair game.
2. neocon | May 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
This will continue right through to the convention. It’s Howard Deans worst nightmare and one of my greatest sources of enjoyment