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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:32 PM
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If, by some remote chance
the Super-Delegates choose Sen Clinton as the Democratic candidate, how do you think the Republicans will spin it?

Perhaps point out that the few Oligarchs who run the Party ignore Democracy in order to appoint THEIR choice?

Perhaps attempt to use it to give creedence to the old chestnut of how Democrats are financially irresponsible. How many millions did they waste on Primaries/caucuses that didn't mean anything.

That the Democrats by ignoring the due process, established, DO NOT really speak for the people.

I'm sure there are more. What else ya got?
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FlyingSquirrel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:37 PM
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1. The Republicans will not call attention to it because that would just
point up their own party's tendency toward the same thing, (and their own party is actually MUCH better at it).
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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:44 PM
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4. Ah, but you forget the rule:
It's okay if Republicans do it!

And McCain's nomination was smooth. The other candidates dropped out one by one, like they should have.
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mathewsleep Donating Member (824 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:45 PM
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5. ha! you're right, they're not hypocritical at all. they would never do that.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:39 PM
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2. If the Super-Delegates choose Sen Clinton over the WILL of the Pledged Delegates ...
don't worry about the Republicans because The Democratic Party will IMPLODE. :nuke:
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:43 PM
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3. Just mentioned this in another thread ...
Aside from the obvious (SDs 'installing' Hillary would lose us the GE because the party would implode), the GOP would point back to the event for decades to come: "The Democratic Party doesn't care about the will of its own voters, doesn't play by its own rules, wastes money on primaries that are nothing more than smoke-and-mirrors to fool the populace into thinking they have a say," etc.

And the BIGGIE the Republicans would trot out: "The Democratic Party, for all of their posturing, are actually racists who stole the nomination from a black man."
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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:46 PM
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7. Yup.
And of course, you say it much better than I could!
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Kokonoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:45 PM
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6. If the SDs choose Sen Clinton it would be by a single vote
Who would want to be remembered as that guy. :hurts:
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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:56 PM
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8. I don't follow..
I don't think the SD's would be that foolish. But I don't understand you're one vote theory. Could you explain why it would be by one vote?
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Kokonoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:06 AM
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11. As the vote gets closer someone would put her over the top
It would be the SD vote that is +1 over primary delegate.
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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:07 AM
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12. Of course.
Silly me.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:56 PM
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9. Benedict Arnold (wherever he may be) ...
... would heave a sigh of relief and say, "After all this time, I'm finally off the hook!"
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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 11:59 PM
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10. You forget...
the victorious write the History. That single vote would be praised. Unless you meant cosmologically or karma?
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:09 AM
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14. Call me crazy ...
... but installing Hillary as the nominee at this point would be party suicide - and the guy who cast the deciding vote for blowing our collective brains out wouldn't go down in history as the hero - unless, of course, that history was written by the GOP.
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verges Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:11 AM
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15. That's what I'm sayin'
Edited on Thu May-08-08 12:13 AM by verges
Without a Democratic Party, they win.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:31 AM
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17. Gotcha!
Sorry, I'm a little more dense tonight than usual.

RIPLEY:
The only way it would work is if
he sabotaged certain freezers
on the trip back. Then he could
jettison the bodies and make up
any story he liked.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:08 AM
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13. Rutherford Hayes?
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bhikkhu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 12:16 AM
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16. They won't need to spin it.
Edited on Thu May-08-08 12:17 AM by bhikkhu
It sinks like a lead balloon on its own merits.

on edit - and there is not the slightest chance of it happening, if you have watched trends since February.
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