Zaphod's Blog: Superdelegate Tango

Hil-liar "scored" big in PA ... or did she? If you have been away in Kathmandu you might have missed the second "comeback kid" staging her revival in Pennsylvania, at least if believe the media. But the fact is this: to get back in the race for delegates, Hil-liar needed to beat Obama by 25% not just under 10% (notice she claims a double digit victory, but she missed that and is rounding up and the media accepts this spin).

So what gives? Is it the media that is actually pro-Hil-liar, notwithstanding the shrill claims by her campaign that Obama was getting a free ride? I have always thought that this was the case -- how can the media not jump all over Hil-liar's constant stream of lies if they didn't not desperately want Hil-liar? And a brief review of the various owners and editors of the left wing media show a veritable gaggle of friends of Bill 'n' Hill. The Lincoln Bedroom should be wallpapered with editorial mastheads of the 1990's -- and things have not changed.

OR, if you are gullible, you might consider that the media want to "make a go of it" and promote a contest so that they actually have something interesting to report.... But that is horseshit: Obama cannot reasonably be dethroned from his lead in "elected delegates." And for his lead to be cut, Hil-liar had to STOMP Obama in PA ... and she did not. In fact, she lost a commanding 25--30 point lead in the PA polls in less than 6 weeks. Hardly a resounding victory -- I'll bet there were some sweaty armpits awaiting the first exit polls.

More damning is that Hil-liar failed to keep a larger lead among what should be her staunchest core support: fat, white people of extremely limited education, sitting eating Doritos on their couch waiting for the steel mills to open again (or the hand-out check in the mail). Obama was entirely correct: guns and religion, the last bastion of hope for the hopeless. You see, Hil-liar cannot defeat Obama where the population is educated -- and this is in contradistinction to the general election where even educated people will vote for Hil-liar in the knee-jerk reflex to vote Democrat (think Massachusetts). So her failure to hold onto even the dimmest constituency is actually quite shocking.

And most disturbing of all -- at least for Democrats -- is that Hil-liar's continued participation in the primary (when considered in the light of an unconvincing PA performance), means that she will make a play for the Superdelegates: the Superdelegate Tango. This confirms the notion that she will attempt to circumvent the "will of the people" for her own benefit. Even assuming it is true that she has a better chance of winning against McCoot in the Fall, democracy is NOT about who the party apparatchiks might think is the better bet, it is about the people who make up the party. This is NOT the Soviet Union of Brezhnev's time.

So let us consider what might happen at the convention: lots of arm twisting, back room dealing, lies, bargains, promises ... the very antithesis of what we have come to demand in our electoral process. Few of us know that the Electoral College could overturn the will of the people and simply install whomever they wish as President ... but they could. And the result would be the death knell of our nation. Similarly, the same result in the Democratic Party would and will be the death knell of that assembly. And the longer that Hil-liar persists, the worse it is going to be for Democrats in November. How can you stand up to the American people and claim to represent them when you can't even represent the members and voters in your own party?

And consider too, the riots that will inevitably result from a Hil-liar "victory." With all the moral indignation / right in the world, the Blacks of this country will rise up to smite the oppressor. And they would be correct. They would have (and are being) disenfranchised by the very Party the presumes to represent and speak for them. This is entirely consistent with Bill in South Carolina this time around and every other time a Clinton has run for election: they can afford to ignore the Blacks because they won't vote Republican ... "we Clintons can diss you because you know we love you." This time the lie has been exposed. The Clintons will do anything, sacrifice any ethic or moral they may claim to have in order to once again sully and debase the corridors of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Think of the monumental audacity of it: "I am better for the Party, so I will convince the Superdelegates to vote for me." It is Leona Helmsley of the "little people" all over again. It is telling the majority of democratic voters that she knows better and can force them to accept that. Do as I say, don't do as I do. Believe in the process, even though I clearly don't believe in the voice of the people. Ironically, the Superdelegate system was put in place to protect the voice of minorities, to assist the Jesse Jacksons of the world. And here comes a genuine electable Black U.S. Senator (no less!!) and he gets screwed by the same sy