Cognitive Dissonance or What Clinton has to do to win

I was driving home from work and thinking something isn't right about Mrs. Clinton's arguments about counting the votes, the cognitive dissonance was throbbing at the back of my mind, straining hard to get out. I know that Mrs. Clinton's arguments about counting every vote and respecting the people's right to vote and making sure the will of the people was followed sounds good, but didn't compute with her actions. I hadn't thought hard about it, She had stated in the past that all the votes really didn't matter (Mi was a beauty contest and wouldn't count, the primary process would be wrapped up by Feb. etc. etc.). but something more kept rattling around, the dissonance grew louder and louder when it came to me like a sack of water ballons to the back of my head, Mrs. Clinton's arguments for her victory make two assumptions that are basically contradictory. Her first argument for victory is that all the delegates must be seated in the way that the beauty contest primaries were run, giving her a net gain of pledged delegates of maybe a hundred. After the final 2 states and PR she is still going to be behind by 60-80 pledged delegates those 3 primaries are not going to make a big difference in delegates). Assuming the above happened Mrs. Clinton's has not won the pledged delegates but the will of the people has been respected (in her eyes) and the people have selected Mr. Obama. Her second assumption for victory is then to persuade the superdelegates to ignore the will of the people.

Mrs. Clinton's drive for democracy implicitly depends on running directly away from democracy, her argument for seating Mi and Fl is disingenuous at best. Anyone who believes that Clinton'd drive to seat Mi and Fl is in any way driven by Mrs. Clinton's concern for the democratic process should be feeling that nagging cognitive dissonance at the back of their minds as well. The only way to bring together her stirring the pot in Mi and Fl is to use it as an inflammatory process to push the superdelegates away from allowing the democratic process to work, and toward marginalizing the pledged delegates in favor of superdelegates choosing her.

Thanks for reading, my headache of dissonance has settled.

GK