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“This Is About Delegates”

April 24th, 2008 7 Comments

That was the Clinton position before they started losing.

Paging Ron Ziegler: “This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.”

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7 Responses to ““This Is About Delegates””

  1. jerry says:
    April 24, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    It was about the delegates when the race could be won by achieving enough delegates. But now, best I know, neither candidate can achieve enough candidates on their own. That’s what is known as a tie. In our system, we don’t flip a coin, we ask the superdelegates to break that tie using their hearts and minds.

    So now it is a race for the hearts and minds of the superdelegates, and a very good argument seems to be to examine the popular voting patterns.

  2. mambochicken23 says:
    April 24, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    First off, I will say that those quotes crack me up. What a bunch of clowns.

    Second off, jerry… it’s not a tie. If they had the same number of delegates, THAT would be a tie. As it is, Obama is ahead. It’s true that the superdelegates can break for Clinton if they wish, but I would hope that they know that this would be terribly destructive to the party. I understand that Hillary doesn’t want to see that because she’s invested so much into this race… but I wish that more of her supporters would be reasonable about it, and realize that the best thing for the Democrats’ chance in November is for Obama to be the nominee with the backing of a unified party.

  3. Jay says:
    April 24, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Isn’t there some kind of appeal process wherein Hillary can petition to have the delegates from Florida and Michigan count?

  4. jr says:
    April 25, 2008 at 9:32 am

    “I’ll be a better wingman than Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman”-Hillary to McCombover

  5. revenantive says:
    April 25, 2008 at 10:05 am

    i want hilary to quit now. every day she stays in the race is another day the party is not unified.

    hilary’s self indulgent decision to remain in this thing is really telling. i think this is proof that if she does not win the nomination outright she will do everything in her power to sabotage Obama. she just doesn’t care who wins in november; party be damned. in fact, i see this as a way of setting herself up for a run in 2012…assuming mccain wins the general…

    1. she wrecks the primary

    2. she makes sure democrats lose the general presidential election.

    3. she rebrands the clinton name during 2009-2011…prepares for another disastrous primary run…fucking over a strong democratic run from a candidate that could actually win in november.

    4. rinse & repeat until hilary is self satisfied with her ego.

    at this point, hilary’s only reason for continuing is pride. i hope she knows how to swallow…

  6. revenantive says:
    April 25, 2008 at 10:17 am

    i will bet a tank of gas (a $100 value at today’s pricing) that hilary WILL NOT openly campaign for Obama once the general election kicks in.

    we won’t hear a peep out of the clinton camp once this primary is decided…

    there will be no help from the republican-lite centrist democrats come november…they wrecked this party in the 90s, and will continue to fuck it up until true progressive liberals take over and set policy.

    clinton is a centrist, and just doesn’t represent change. i see her as almost a female version of george w. bush: framing a very conservative agenda under feels good verbiage.

    can you ‘clear skies’, ‘green forests’ & ’surge’?

    more than mccain, hilary offers the bush white house the best chance for continuation of bad bush policy. that’s why you hear rush limbaugh pressing republicans to vote for hilary during the primary.

  7. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 25, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    “This is about delegates.”

    Now you got it. Not number of states. Not popular vote.

    Delegates.