Posted
by rycK on Friday, February
15, 2008 9:04:37 AM Revised 4.18.2014
In
a crude effort to prevent obvious losers from getting the nomination from the
Party of Democrats, such as Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy ‘the
peanut’ Carter [in his second attempt while knocking off Teddy Kennedy] and
others, a system of caucuses and primaries was established in order to to,
obviously, take control of the process and select ‘electable’ candidates, and
the voters could just go out in the woods and whistle. This is the solution to
democracy in the progressive view.
Any
such process becomes a bit shabby when the race is very close and the
superdelegates are able to set up a Star Chamber and make kings from the wreckage. [3]
So, how does the process work in this case? Why, it is simple: The candidates
just pander to the delegates and buy their allegiance and votes with money,
promises and future power positions. Notice here that this process is the
antithesis of the democratic process. Tammany Hall could not have worked out a
better system.
The
Party Fathers set aside 796 delegates (they are not really eligible for the
compound noun that includes the word super in my view) that is 20% of the
entire delegation. A win is 2025. To secure the win, Hillary
has coughed up $195,500, but Obama has raised the steaks and stakes to $694,000. His contributions are recent, but
Hillary’s machine stretches back a few years.
In
the spirit of a San Francisco
“Yet the Center for
Responsive Politics has found that campaign contributions have been a
generally reliable predictor of whose side a superdelegate will take. In cases
where superdelegates had received contributions from both Clinton and Obama,
all seven elected officials who received more money from Clinton Clinton
You
plunk the money on the drum and the monkey dances the Dunciad. This is almost
as nauseating as John Murtha’s earmark funny money system where he cuts secretive
earmarks and gets contributions as kickbacks. [5]
[6]
As
a Democrat, I must offer my comments of disgust at the performance of the
so-called party leaders who act like insects devouring a dead bird. To say that
this is anything other than a political cesspool is an understatement.
Let
us all realize that many of our contributions to these people may just wind up
in the pockets of party hacks. Isn’t that a great way to run a democratic
republic?? The Party of Democrats is polluted with pigs and we need to clean
out the sty.
How
progressive!
rycK
Comments:
ryckki@gmail.com
[1] Super delegates may sink the Democrats Rules adopted in 1982 to take
back the nominating process could haunt the party's leaders.
By
Joshua Spivak January 19, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-spivak19jan19,0,6353609.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail.
“In 1982, party leaders allocated for themselves a heaping portion of the
delegates, creating positions called super delegates. Every Democratic member
of Congress, every Democratic governor and all of the elected members of the
Democratic National Committee (the majority of the super delegates) were each
granted a vote at the convention. Party leaders assumed this would help them
retain a measure of control over the process -- and of course continue to be
granted the bounty of political favors that historically flowed from backing
the right horse at the convention. In 2008, the 796 super delegates will make
up about 20% of the entire convention. Winning the nomination requires 2,025
delegates.”
[2] Seeking Superdelegates. “Obama, who narrowly leads in the count of
pledged, "non-super" delegates, has doled out more than $694,000 to
superdelegates from his political action committee, Hope Fund, or campaign
committee since 2005. Of the 81 elected officials who had announced as of Feb.
12 that their superdelegate votes would go to the Illinois
[4] Seeking Superdelegates http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=336
