I am a Florida Democrat. And I am indeed pissed. And in fact, I am pissed at my state committee. Of course, that predates this mess; my Dad's been involved with the local Dems and the state committee promises candidates the moon and then welshes on that promise on a regular basis. So I have a very low opinion of them. I am even more pissed at the DNC. The FL legislature set the primary date. It is overwhelmingly Republican (in a pretty much 50/50 state due to the use of creative gerrymandering). The few Dems in the legislature voted for the primary date because they were bribed with an amendment they'd been trying to get passed for years and it's not as if they'd have any effective say about the date anyway. The Republicans are laughing themselves silly over the success of their plan. I'm seriously pissed at ALL the candidates for gutlessly knuckling in to the party and boycotting our state. If they'd all decided to ignore the ban en masse, the party would have found it impossible to enforce. Grrr. Now that the whole farce has been enacted, I think it would be outrageously two-faced of the party to turn around and say "oops, we didn't mean it, sorry." Because we didn't get a fair election - we never got to hear the candidates, we never heard them speak to us about our issues. I tend to favor Obama. He's not well know in the state and never had a chance to be known. So Clinton won easily on the little old lady and cracker votes. But it doesn't really matter in the general election because after this debalce the Dems sure aren't going to take FL. Hell, I'm a flaming liberal Dem and if Clinton gets the nomination, I'm considering voting for McCain. And if she succeeds in getting away with taking the FL delegates without us, I'm bloody well doing so. Clinton may get the nomination. But she'll lose the general election. (Think Dukakis. Or Mondale.) You can't win on just the Democrats, you've got to get the swing voters and too many people hate her guts. And her conduct in the primaries isn't helping her image. Too bad the party honchos owe her and Bill their superdelegates because they've got to have some idea about this. Or maybe not. After all, they're the ones who fell for this whole Florida primary set-up.
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Date: 2008-02-06 09:41 pm (UTC)Now that the whole farce has been enacted, I think it would be outrageously two-faced of the party to turn around and say "oops, we didn't mean it, sorry." Because we didn't get a fair election - we never got to hear the candidates, we never heard them speak to us about our issues. I tend to favor Obama. He's not well know in the state and never had a chance to be known. So Clinton won easily on the little old lady and cracker votes. But it doesn't really matter in the general election because after this debalce the Dems sure aren't going to take FL. Hell, I'm a flaming liberal Dem and if Clinton gets the nomination, I'm considering voting for McCain. And if she succeeds in getting away with taking the FL delegates without us, I'm bloody well doing so.
Clinton may get the nomination. But she'll lose the general election. (Think Dukakis. Or Mondale.) You can't win on just the Democrats, you've got to get the swing voters and too many people hate her guts. And her conduct in the primaries isn't helping her image. Too bad the party honchos owe her and Bill their superdelegates because they've got to have some idea about this. Or maybe not. After all, they're the ones who fell for this whole Florida primary set-up.