I remember watching the riots on television at the 68 Democrat convention. Are we going to witness this again? If Hillary and her minions and cronies try to pull this off, I only hope the Democrats wake up and witness the power grab by stealing this nomination.
Remember the article I posted a month ago, is the Right, right about the Clintons….
The Coming DNC Civil War over *All* Delegates (Brazile threatens to “Quit the Party”)
Politico
Clinton targets pledged delegates
By: Roger Simon Feb 19, 2008 05:48 AM EST
Richmond Mayor (and former first black Virginia governor) L. Douglas Wilder predicted riots in the streets if the Clinton campaign were to overturn an Obama lead through the use of superdelegates
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.
What? Isn’t that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a particular candidate and cannot switch, right?
Wrong.
Pledged delegates are not really pledged at all, not even on the first ballot. This has been an open secret in the party for years, but it has never really mattered because there has almost always been a clear victor by the time the convention convened.
But not this time. This time, one candidate may enter the convention leading by just a few pledged delegates, and those delegates may find themselves being promised the sun, moon and stars to switch sides.
“I swear it is not happening now, but as we get closer to the convention, if it is a stalemate, everybody will be going after everybody’s delegates,” a senior Clinton official told me Monday afternoon. “All the rules will be going out the window.”
Rules of good behavior, maybe. But, in fact, the actual rules of the party allow for such switching. The notion that pledged delegates must vote for a certain candidate is, according to the Democratic National Committee, a “myth.”
“Delegates are NOT bound to vote for the candidate they are pledged to at the convention or on the first ballot,” a recent DNC memo states. “A delegate goes to the convention with a signed pledge of support for a particular presidential candidate. At the convention, while it is assumed that the delegate will cast their vote for the candidate they are publicly pledged to, it is not required.”
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAnd thereby paving the way for McCain. Dems better get their act together quickly or they will shoot themselves in the foot again.
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