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of the early days of the country when the selection involved the number two guy, usually a bitter and ideological rival, taking the second spot, quickly resolving the divisions. At that time before party lines were drawn traditionally, in the small circles of selection and the immediate need for stability, these things easily happened. Yet they demonstrate firsthand that rivalry does not disappear and, plotting or no plotting, the VP faction would later emerge as the next Presidential party.
To talk of rights where there is currently none is blatant continuation of power politics and in fact a further challenge to the presidential nominee than ever existed in the early years of the nation. A morphing continuation of campaign belligerence into a DEMAND for a unity ticket is an irrational fallacy and a contradictory lie. To earn this consideration means not continuation of challenge but a brilliant submission and transformation, as sincere as possible that puts party and nominee first.
The nonsense meanwhile continues. The argument for a unity ticket is rationally acceptable, but is practically impossible when a faction remains a personal faction, just another demand for the winner to surrender to the loser. Time is running out with a vengeance for Clinton to make this case at all a rational or a legitimate one. She is still wrapped up in gaming her first lost battle. If the best she can do for using her bloc at the Convention is to quibble on floor fights over Florida and Michigan, her campaign and base has been squandered on useless nonsense and inevitable ruin. Rich donors trying to threaten and bribe SD's shows the persistent broken nature of this faction.
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