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Bredesen’s modest superdelegate proposal in the NYT
Posted By katie allison granju
The Gov is in the NYT today:
WE Democrats have a problem, but it’s one we can fix.
We are blessed with two fine candidates, but it’s entirely possible that when primary season ends on June 3, we will still lack a clear nominee. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton could each still believe that the nomination could be his or hers at the national convention in Denver in August.
In that situation, we would then face a long summer of brutal and unnecessary warfare. We would face a summer of growing polarization. And we would face a summer of lost opportunities — lost opportunities to heal the wounds of the primaries, to fill the party’s coffers, to offer unified Democratic ideas for America’s challenges.
If we do nothing, we’ll of course still have a nominee by Labor Day. But if he or she is the nominee of a party that is emotionally exhausted and divided with only two months to go before Election Day, it could be a Pyrrhic victory.
Here’s what our party should do: schedule a superdelegate primary. In early June, after the final primaries, the Democratic National Committee should call together our superdelegates in a public caucus.
Mar 19th, 2008
This is completely unnecessary as both the candidates, being democrats, are without sin and malice and would never do anything so ugly as sacrifice their party to their own ambition. So there is no chance of a brutal super delegate war at the convention. These stories are all Rovian SwiftMyths designed to make us look as mean and small as Republicans.
It’ll be Smurftime at the Denver I tell ya.
With all modesty I have a better proposal.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/a_modest_proposal_1.html
I’ve got an even better idea: Thunderdome.
“Two candidates enter, but only one leaves.”
Clarice, I thought you found the proposal
Since I am at the NCAA Wrestling Nationals, I suggest each camp form a wrestling team with Clinton and Barack as coaches. The one that win the duels is the nominee.
Not going to happen.
Hillary will keep the fight going to make sure Obama loses big.
Around about Nov. 5th or 6th she will offer to be the unifying force of the party along with the head of the party. Her husband.
BTW the Swift Boaters were headed by a Democrat. O’Neil. How ironic.
Clarice, I love your solution. It is elegant and something that should appeal to any fair minded Democrat who reveres the great President Carter.
Instead of McCain, Obama or Clinton, how about no nominees and we run a write-in campaign amongst Larry, Curly and Moe? Why settle for ambitious amateurs when you can have *real* clowns?
What about a duel?
even better than JC - the UN comes in to make sure there are no irregularities! Can’t think of a more fitting symbol for Hill or Barrack than to have an international flavor to our election
I knew I shouldn’t have clicked the link. Anyone who believes that the Democrats are “blessed with two fine candidates” is nuts. The Democrats are cursed with a shrill bitch whom everyone hates and a smooth-talking empty suit who looks more like a Sharptonesque race hustler every day.
Anyway, this proposal solves exactly nothing. Someone with a legitimate claim to the nomination is going to get shafted. Sure, the shafting is out of the way earlier, but maybe if it’s postponed until the end of the summer a clear opinion poll winner will emerge by then.
You’ll find an even simpler solution here
http://stushietoon.blogspot.com/2008/03/democrat-delegate-debacle-easy-solution.html
“I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
Will Rogers
The next few months are going to be fun!
One word–
THUNDERDOME!
I suggest the Democrats try a variation used effectively by Joseph Stalin. Hillary and Barack should both appear on the podium at the same time. Security personnel, preferably ones that look like KGB, should be posted at the doors. Being that a standing ovation is command performance, the KGB should remove from the building, and possibly from civilization, each delegate who quits clapping and cheering. After all but 10 percent of the delegates have collapsed or been arrested, those left get to decide the nominee. (Source of this “inspiration,” Solzhenitsyn.)
Thank you, Fritz
THUN-DER-DOME!
THUN-DER-DOME!
THUN-DER-DOME!