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Monday, March 10, 2008
Just what the Democratic nomination contest needs - more Al Sharpton
Having failed to play any sort of kingmaker role this year in the Democratic primaries, Al Sharpton has resolved to stick his oar in to the whole debate over what to do for the Florida and Michigan primary votes. He's vowing to sue the DNC if it decides to count the votes of Florida's original primary vote.Laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Democratic Party, the Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the Democratic National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally.The Democrats were sure that they could engineer the perfect nomination contest by mandating that only Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada could have January contests. Why those states? Just a mixture of historical tradition and DNC manipulation of the calendar. Florida and Michigan had the temerity to jump the queue. No one thought that it would really matter since, in all other years, someone clinches the nomination early and it wouldn't matter how those states had voted. The victorious nominee could then magnanimously reverse the DNC ruling and seat the Florida and Michigan delegations. But now there is a real knock-down fight for the nomination going on and the states could turn it around for Hillary. Now the DNC has to try to negotiate some sort of compromise that will end up angering some group of their base.
Rev. Sharpton is traveling to Florida today to compile lists of residents who skipped the January contest because they thought their votes would not count. He plans to have those residents sign affidavits saying they would be disenfranchised by the seating of the Florida delegation, in the event the Democratic Party allowed that to happen.
Just remember this whole mess of a nomination process whenever you hear a liberal pontificate about how government can design some elaborate government program that can solve a difficult policy issue. There's a reason that such issues are difficult and we should beware of the laws of unintended consequences.Labels: Election 2008
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Having failed to play any sort of kingmaker role this year in the Democratic primaries, Al Sharpton has resolved to stick his oar in to the whole debate over what to do for the Florida and Michigan primary votes. He's vowing to sue the DNC if it decides to count the votes of Florida's original primary vote.
Just remember this whole mess of a nomination process whenever you hear a liberal pontificate about how government can design some elaborate government program that can solve a difficult policy issue. There's a reason that such issues are difficult and we should beware of the laws of unintended consequences.
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Having failed to play any sort of kingmaker role this year in the Democratic primaries, Al Sharpton has resolved to stick his oar in to the whole debate over what to do for the Florida and Michigan primary votes. He's vowing to sue the DNC if it decides to count the votes of Florida's original primary vote.
Laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Democratic Party, the Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the Democratic National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally.The Democrats were sure that they could engineer the perfect nomination contest by mandating that only Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada could have January contests. Why those states? Just a mixture of historical tradition and DNC manipulation of the calendar. Florida and Michigan had the temerity to jump the queue. No one thought that it would really matter since, in all other years, someone clinches the nomination early and it wouldn't matter how those states had voted. The victorious nominee could then magnanimously reverse the DNC ruling and seat the Florida and Michigan delegations. But now there is a real knock-down fight for the nomination going on and the states could turn it around for Hillary. Now the DNC has to try to negotiate some sort of compromise that will end up angering some group of their base.
Rev. Sharpton is traveling to Florida today to compile lists of residents who skipped the January contest because they thought their votes would not count. He plans to have those residents sign affidavits saying they would be disenfranchised by the seating of the Florida delegation, in the event the Democratic Party allowed that to happen.
Just remember this whole mess of a nomination process whenever you hear a liberal pontificate about how government can design some elaborate government program that can solve a difficult policy issue. There's a reason that such issues are difficult and we should beware of the laws of unintended consequences.
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