In today's conference call, the Clinton campaign conceded any rules-based or fairness-based argument for the full seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations. The Clinton campaign declared that, unlike Iowa, NH and South Carolina, Florida and Michigan did indeed break the DNC rules and without justification. The Clinton campaign expressly disagreed with the Michigan Democratic Party's contention that the DNC had selectively enforced its rules by allowing New Hampshire and South Carolina to break the sanctioned primary schedule, that Florida was not entitled to a safe harbor or waiver, and that the DNC had acted properly and within the rules when it stripped Florida and Michigan of its delegates.
This concession means that the Clinton campaign accepts that since rules were broken by Michigan and Florida, there is likely to be a sanction or other consequence. Therefore, as BTD points out, the only remaining argument the Clinton campaign has is that we must ignore the rule breaking by Florida and Michigan because 1) these states are important in the general election and thus their delegates must be seated in full and 2) these states are important to me winning the nomination, and thus their delegations must be seated in full.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/30/13333/0744This race is over.
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