Reply #112: As has been noted [View All]

she is not the only flailing candidate to abuse both support and the rules and concoct some illegitimate horror scheme to "win". If my failing memory serves me correctly though, this could be the most base and baseless tactic yet employed in our party at least. I doubt examples of worse things will cast any rosy fireside glow on the current ploy.

The reaction of bases however is always the same. If you believe in the cause, screw the rules. If you righteously decry that think of cheating Bush or Nixon or Reagan out of the disastrous reigns we have already endured. Is it better to nobly lose to the destroyers of SCOTUS and Habeas Corpus than set a dangerous precedent? how many disasters, how many flunked tests of terrible systems before we reach that terrible choice? So have compassion on the supporters and trash the candidate putting us to such a test for no conceivable good to anyone, including herself, her causes and her supporters. Why the dangerous game? To what end or even justification? Why the ugly spin to turn logic and justice on its head to serve a defeated goal? When will she break the news to her investors that their money is blown and there will be nothing to show for it at all?

If the party withstands this attack- by one its strongest- in a year when we certainly didn't need more trouble is it not a victory for law itself and reason and party? To engage the crisis on the petty terms dictated by desperate truculence only spreads the ill effects. If we believe in the triumph of November and the policies that follow we must keep our own house in order. After this test it would be wonderful if the party did not further divide the hapless victimized citizenry against accomplishing anything remotely necessary and good.

While this goes on, Schumer already is making timid noises about not expecting too much for what every American wants, health care coverage. Already, despite the agendas favored by Hillary and Obama.