tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078662512777171745.post5551653183107375358..comments2008-03-30T11:48:09.475-04:00Scott Cavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274607025849615002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078662512777171745.post-39071583522001254372008-03-30T11:48:00.000-04:002008-03-30T11:48:00.000-04:00Scott, I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However, you have completely lost my respect when you started insulting, what seems like a random people each post, that only shows that you ran out of intelligent FACTS and are now running on BASELESS and arbitrary views. There is also another choice, perhaps you are just stubborn and cannot admit when you are WRONG. There is only one last thing I can think of it being and that is that you are using your subscribers just to make the sponsors happy and stir up controversy. Whatever the reason, this site seems less like the thought provoking debates you had started with, and seems more like the insane ramblings of deranged psychopaths.Shadowdancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174445486113475321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078662512777171745.post-75158029744157814702008-03-28T07:36:00.000-04:002008-03-28T07:36:00.000-04:00It's very simple. Michigan's and Florida's Democratic "honchos" (to use your term) decided to move up their primaries in violation of the rules, as did Michigan's and Florida's <I>Republican</I> "honchos." All the Democratic and Republican candidates -- including Hillary -- agreed to their party's choice of sanction. For the Democratics, it was no delegates. Nada. Zilch. Zippo. Again, every candidate agreed to abide by these rules. Hillary wants to change the rules now, which is like a football coach saying, "I'm down by two points and there's only time for one play left. Can we move the goal line 10 yards closer?"<BR/><BR/>Two ironies about this: <BR/><BR/>1) If Michigan and Florida had stayed in their original spots on the calendar, they would have had a potentially HUGE role in the nomination. Oh well. <BR/><BR/>2) Hillary isn't even <I>expecting</I> a revote, Scott. She knows that even if she were to win big in both states, she'd still trail by a big amount in both the popular vote and the delegate count. This is all a smokescreen. Mathematically, she's 99.9% kaput. She'd need to win about 70% of the vote in the remaining 10 primaries to catch up, which isn't happening.<BR/><BR/>She <I>knows</I> that her only option now is to hammer Obama so much that he becomes <I>unelectable,</I> and to convince the superdelegates that they need to ditch the results of the popular vote and the delegate count and switch to her. <BR/><BR/>And that's not happening, either. The Democratic Party is not going to tell the first viable African-American candidate and his supporters, "Sorry, your victory doesn't count." So any actions toward that goal is quixotic, to put it politely, as well as wasteful and destructive toward the Democratic Party. <BR/><BR/>Yes, Hillary, you've fought well and I'm sorry that your presumed destiny of the past decade isn't happening. But it's time to take a seat for the sake of the party and the country.Ken Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13545923862917750773noreply@blogger.com