22 May
Posted by Cory Perry as Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Primary News
Rachel Maddow has a great piece at the Huffington Post today laying out Hillary Clinton’s continued efforts to take this nomination to the Democratic National Convention.
Do you see where this is going? If there is an open, unresolved procedural issue involving the Florida and Michigan delegations, Senator Clinton will be able to cite that as her justification for staying in the race until the convention even though she is not ahead in the nomination contest at the end of the primary calendar.
I think this point is really, really important. The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee is scheduled to meet on March 31 to discuss the FL/MI ruling. Now, what happens if they do not come to a decision, or the decision they make then gets appealed to another committee, and appealed again?
That gives Sen. Clinton every reason in the world to take this race all the way to the convention. Doing that will be a bad move for her, Obama, and the Democratic party. By giving Hillary Clinton an extra couple of months to campaign, raise money, and make her case (no matter how ludicrous it may be), she will continue to keep the Democratic party from being unified.
Going into the convention without a clear nominee, will I believe, cost the Democrats the White House.
As much as Sen. Clinton continuously states that she unify the party and work for the nominee, she sure doesn’t show it with her current actions, and it might just cost the Democratic party their chance during a time that America is willing and ready to this nation pure blue.
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