Superdeletates: The Democrat’s Patriarchs, the Mack Daddies Who Know Best…
In today’s NCP we find an article again trying to explain Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen’s plan for the Democratic Party’s superdelegates to meet early in June, choose a candidate for November’s election, and attempt to settle the rancor between the two Democratic idiots candidates so as to enhance their chances to ruin the U.S. politically for the next four years.
Bredesen made national news with a NYT OpEd March 19 explaining why Democrat superfathers should pick a candidate for their unruly children to vote for in November.
From J. Rodger’s article, Bredesen again sounds ‘fatherly’…
“I think it’s a combination of what’s my responsibility to the people who voted for me, what’s my responsibility as a member of the Democratic Party, who do I think would be best for the country?” Bredesen told reporters Thursday. “I have to say I think that in some way respecting the will of the people, I’m not sure how that comes out, has got to be an important piece of the thing.”
But, alas, there’s not much momentum nationally to carry on with this plan, for whatever reason. Certainly, Phil wants the VP nod; since this is his last possible term as Tennessee Governor, he must make his next career political move. Strangely, Phil hasn’t yet dumped the State Income Tax proposals we’ve expected. Maybe that’s on his agenda for 2009, as a parting gift to Tennesseans.
It’s also possible that Uncle Phil wants to give another chance to failed Al Gore, a Tennessee homeboy who really hasn’t ‘mended fences’ much since his defeat in 2000. Instead, Al Gore has embraced Global Warmalism, and wants to ruin our economy with his mad proposals for ‘fixing’ the ‘planet with a temperature’.
As for ’superdelegates’ choosing a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Hmmmph. Figures.
Superdelegates are the Democratic Party’s strange peculiarity.
What else can you expect from a Party that would treat all Americans as children, dispensing ‘cradle to the grave’ benefits for all and exacting gun control ‘for your own protection’ and overly taxing us and redistributing wealth because we aren’t trustworthy or intelligent enough to choose our own doctors, schools, charities, and our own children’s futures?
Superdeletates: The Democrat’s Patriarchs, the Mack Daddies Who Know Best…
crossed from home
The next president was at MTSU yesterday
The Dems solution.
Oh please! Pretty please! Nominate him so the DNC ruptures and explodes into 1000 splintered political parties!
Al Gore is a sore loser. He’s also a complete hypocrite, owning an eco-disaster mining op and a flying all over the world in a private jet to promote conservation.
Let’s see.. sore loser? Hypocrite? Sounds like Willy’s ideal candidate.
And the superdelegates differ substantially from the Electoral College exactly … how?
Funny, you didn’t mind overturning the will of the electorate in 2000, but bristle at the mere possibility within the Democratic primaries…
You’re kidding, right? The electoral college represents sections of the people based upon states and population.
The Superdelegate process is people (many many people) who are in positions outside of the primaries (read “popular vote by state’) who have a say in the party’s process simply by nature of them being Cool Dudes/Dudettes.
The electoral college is representative democracy. The Superdelegate Process is oligarchy.
Look at Mikey’s Blog… he’s using BS data from CONSERVATIVE thinktanks again in his war on Gore. Pathetic. Hopefully he’ll let my comment post…
Geez, Mikey, how do you expect do get tenure as a scientist when you rely exclusively on conservative thinktanks to promote your BS and make statements like “the temperature of the earth is plumetting” ?? Dude, some advice… everytime you open your mouth you look stupider and dumber, better sucess if you just shut up and try to learn something.
Doc:
The electoral college represents sections of the people based upon states and population.
Show me the rule that says the electors have to vote the way the people tell them to. They almost always do, but the electors can vote however they want. If they were simply proxies for the people of the states and nothing more, then there would be no need for an electoral college. That’s also why the electoral college meets more than a month after “election day” as we know it. The real election — the one that matters — takes place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.
Also, strictly speaking, the electoral college is not representative democracy, because the electors are not apportioned based on population; some states are over- and under-represented because of the senate rules, and each state (with two exceptions) is an all-or-nothing prize. If 51% of California’s voters vote for the Democrat, all of the electors vote for the Democrat (though, as previously stated, they’re not strictly required to).
Go forth and learn some civics, man!
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They don’t, but historically nearly all have voted the way the electorate has demanded of them. (If they didn’t there’d be another revolution.)
The Democratic Superdelegate process was created to circumvent the nomination of by the Democrats of someone who couldn’t possibly win a national election, so the popular vote would be overridden by the minders of the party, conveniently tossing Democracy aside (which is interesting given the Democratic moniker).
Perhaps instead of wanting me to learn civics, you should learn more about American History and the workings of your own political party.