Posted by
beltway girl on Friday, March 07, 2008 1:49:03 AM
It's still curtains for the Bill and Hillary Show.
But it's pandemonium for the Democrats, as Hillary swings through the air, virtually grabs hold of the curtains with her teeth, and bites down, hoping to bring them down with her before she can get back on her feet again.
Nothing could possibly illustrate this scenario more clearly than the BYOB election concept. Candidates, bring your own ballots, and pay for the Florida and Ohio do-overs.
Now, how exactly is that supposed to play out? And who exactly is going to be monitoring the results of these revolutionary new BYOB elections?
This sounds more like something out of the Republican playbook. When Mitt Romney foot the bill for his campaign at different junctures, many of us shook our heads at the idea of Megabucks Mitt trying to buy his way into the White House. But now, the Democrats have come up with this latest stroke of complete insanity.
"Pay your own way!"
"Right, well, if you want it, go and pay for it yourself!"
Isn't the Democratic National Committee going to sound like the way Democrats have always portrayed a pair of bad Republican parents?
Let's hope it only does end up being Bring Your Own Ballots and not Buy Your Own Comeback.
This entire thing is shaping up into a big, big mess. Aren't the Democrats-- particularly Mrs. Clinton-- the ones concerned with our image around the world? How exactly do they think this is going to look? Even Fidel Castro-- the Mr. Saturday Night of communism-- is going to be scratching his beard at this one, provided he's still alive.
But back to Hillary with the curtains in her teeth, what is even more incredible than the BYOB election proposal is Mrs. Clinton's completely objective plan for just seating the delegates.
Seating these delegates.
These delegates, from these don't-count elections, from these supposedly nullified contests. Where (in one state) Obama's name wasn't even on the ballot.
Is she kidding? Alas, no, she is quite serious. We don't want these voters "disenfranchised."
No, no, it's much better to disenfranchise the voters who listened, who may not have voted that day, who followed the rules and didn't bother, perhaps.
Let's disenfranchise
them! Voters are sure to be disenfranchised in Mrs. Clinton's scenario, too. But
not the voters that gave her the nullified victories, and this fact may not matter when it comes to principle, but it definitely matters to Mrs. Clinton's campaign. "Shame on you, Barack Obama!" And he was borrowing tricks from the Karl Rove playbook. Well, you have to hand it to the Clintons, I don't even know if you could find a playbook with the tactics they've adopted regarding Florida and Michigan. The celestial choir is definitely not singing; it's more like the soundtrack from
Goodfellas.
One might consider asking Mrs. Clinton to meet John McCain in the general election, just as she asked Obama to meet her in Ohio. But you wouldn't want to count on this happening. If there actually are re-dos in Florida and Michigan-- one of the only rational alternatives left-- you couldn't know positively that things would go Mrs. Clinton's way.
You just never know what to expect with a party that might be BYOB.