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Wed Mar-05-08 08:09 AM
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Why..Why...It's almost like this whole primary was scripted... |
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:14 AM
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1. If Gore comes out of the convention with the nom... |
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then I'll have a very strong suspicion that it was all scripted. Not that I'd think that was a bad thing at all (Gore getting the nomination), it's just that I've had a nagging hunch that it's been set up for a while now to allow Gore to bypass the primary process...something about Gore's coyness about running in the run up to the primaries. I have mixed feelings about it if true, Gore's easily the best man for the job, but it seems a little anti-democratic.
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:15 AM
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We'll have an Obama, or long shot Clinton Nominee on the first Convention vote.
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:23 AM
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5. If Rove can squeeze Hillary in, the Black vote may be lost for quite a while... |
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Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 08:25 AM by Junkdrawer
But either way, the divisions and the Woman/Black thing will make the McCain victory seem entirely plausible.
And, in the end, isn't that what it's all about?
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:36 AM
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7. It will be the end of the Democratic Party. |
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Did anyone listen to CSPAN this morning? Hillary cannot beat McCain w/o the black vote. If she is the nominee, McCain will win and the Democratic party is over.
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:17 AM
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How "democratic" is it to have narrowed the field down so early, before most voters ever got a chance to vote?
How "democratic" will it be to have a presumptive nominee before my primary on May 20th?
The primary process isn't exactly a beacon of democracy to begin with.
Gore coming out of the convention with the nomination, while highly unlikely, is the best possible outcome from where I sit.
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:20 AM
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It's the "highly unlikely" part which will confirm the "scripted" part for me, if it does come to pass.
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:42 AM
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11. There's a part of me that can see |
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a "scripted" primary as a possible scenario. The other part of me looks at the ugliness, the emotion, and wonders. Are people so predictable, and so easily manipulated, that a party-rendering hate-fest can be so easily accomplished?
If so, why should we value the democratic process at all, if it is so easily corrupted?
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:34 AM
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scripted then it's by people who are far more powerful than Democratic Party insiders.
And it's a script that seems designed to weaken the Democrats.
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:42 AM
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10. Actually, I think that's Rove's nightmare scenario... |
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Playing it too cute and winding up with a third candidate...
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:36 AM
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8. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? We are voting on those silly machines after all. n/t |
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Wed Mar-05-08 08:37 AM
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9. They're always scripted. Sometimes the script is improvised but |
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the story line is always followed. :dem:
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