14 February 2008
Reaping What They Sow
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Constitution in Peril; Presidential Election 2008 .
We feel we have made a pretty strong case here as a cyberspace community that the liberal agenda has included the attempt to belittle and fracture the conservative base. I found it interesting to listen to a video warning of a civil war in the Democratic Party if the two candidates go all the way to a convention. If you poison the air of your enemy, you breath the same air yourself.
There is a serious concern about super delegates. This was passed into law in 1982. Liberals explained that they didn’t want their voice alone to be heard so super delegates would ensure the moderate voices would have a say. Naturally they didn’t mention conservative voices, and as Roy has outlined, moderates are really liberals in disguise.
Super delegates are unconstitutional, in my opinion. Surprisingly, I agree with John Kerry on this issue. He says that the votes of the people can be thrown out by this group that does not represent the people. This is crazy and I am surprised there is not an outcry against it. If anyone can share with us what the validity of this is, I would be interested to learn.
6 Comments so far...
T. Fan Says:
14 February 2008 at 2:51 pm.
This is the weirdest campaign in history. There has never been anything like it because we have never been so close to liberalism before. I have to admit I didn’t know about the super delegates until this year. I haven’t paid enough attention before. It sure is not representative so it seems unconstitutional to me.
Pickles Says:
14 February 2008 at 2:55 pm.
How can they get away with something like this?
Cavetrollhead Says:
14 February 2008 at 3:07 pm.
“This is the weirdest campaign in history.” I think so too. T.Fan
This kind of goes along with the Idea that a candidate can instruct his delegates to go for another candidate. (McCain in WV) It is just wrong. And now that Romney is pushing his delegates to McCain, I have a bone to pick with him too. The delegates should represent the will of the people. Candidates are usurping the power of the people. Normally courts don’t get involved in primaries because they are dictated by party rules, but I agree with joy that Super delegate is an unconstitutional idea- as well as what I just mentioned.
Joy Bischoff Says:
14 February 2008 at 3:07 pm.
I should have been more clear in my blog. Super delegates are not actually unconstitutional because it is something the party does and they can legally make their own rules. I just feel that it is an end run around what was implied in the Constitution. It is a dirty trick to get around the rules.
Joy Bischoff Says:
14 February 2008 at 3:09 pm.
That is the best way to put it CTH. The delegates should represent the will of the people.
Cameron Says:
14 February 2008 at 10:48 pm.
Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
“While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years,” the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.
About half the 800 superdelegates — elected officials, party leaders, and others — have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
Obama’s political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.
Clinton’s political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/superdelegates.html
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