The Rules Rule
Published on March 06, 2008

THE QUICK BROWSE FIREFOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY BLOG*

THE QUICK BROWSE FIREFOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY BLOG*

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* It occurs to me some of you – perhaps most of you – may have no idea what this headline refers to.  And I’m curious to know.  So here is the world’s shortest (one-question) survey – designed with SurveyMonkey.com in two minutes – to find out.  Please click here to let me know.  Thanks!

 

WHAT NOW?

Jill:  “What is the DNC going to do to solve the Florida/Michigan problem that its rules contributed to?”

 

F We're going to do the only possible thing:  Stick to the rules (unless both campaigns agree on how they’d like them changed).

 

These are rules everyone agreed to before the game started – and before anyone knew which states (if any) would break them or which candidates would thereby be disadvantaged. 

 

The rules do allow either state to do a re-vote . . . the DNC can’t force them to – or not to. 

 

Here’s the background posted a few weeks ago.

 

But here’s the thing to focus on: we have two superb candidates.  The Democratic turnout has been amazing.  If we keep our eye on the ball – and come together when the primary is over, as our two candidates have pledged to do, regardless of the outcome – we will win the White House in November, widen our hair-thin majority in the Senate, stanch the rightwing slide of the Judiciary, and begin to get America back on a progressive, hopeful track.

 

It would have been good to have the the presumptive nominee sooner.  But June – the likely endpoint – is time enough.  That’s when Bill Clinton clinched it in 1992. 

 

NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT

Can I say one thing?  Every time I hear one or the other of the two candidates confirm that Barack is not a Muslim, I keep expecting them to say, “Not that there’s anything wrong with being Muslim.  The vast majority of America’s millions of Muslims are hard-working, patriotic, tax-paying citizens like the rest of us.”  Maybe that goes without saying – but I thought I’d say it anyway.   



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