Legal Commentary

Why The FL Delegation Must Be Seated

By Big Tent Democrat

At some point, one hopes, Barack Obama and his supporters will start thinking about winning in November. It needs to start with seating the Florida and Michigan delegations. There are many arguments that those worried about the future Democratic primary schedule can raise about this and that and the integrity of the RULZ. I think they do not have much merit, but I am not writing here to rehash that. Why? Because a normal functioning Democratic Party would not be wasting time thinking about the 2012 primary schedule and instead would be thinking about making the 2012 primaries moot - by winning the Presidency in 2008. No one will remember or care about Donna Brazile and her silly RULZ fixations in 2016, if we win the White House in 2008.

Which brings me to Florida. Adam Smith argues it SHOULD be in play this Fall:

Florida is turning bluer by the day. . . . In a state that decided the 2000 election by 537 votes, you bet it matters that today Democrats have more registered voters in a bellwether like Pinellas County, where Republicans in 2000 had a nearly 28,000-voter advantage. Or that in the mega battleground of Miami-Dade County, Democrats have had a net registration gain of nearly 59,000 since 2000.

"What we're seeing is the beginnings of a major sea change,'' said Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party. "When you add up all of the major factors that go into the analysis of an election, everything is going the Democratic Party's way."Well, maybe not everything. There's that delegate debacle and primary boycott. You've got a lot of work to do introducing yourself in Florida and soothing the simmering resentment among many Democrats who claim they might not vote for you. . . .

(Emphasis supplied.) It is time to forget the silly Donna Brazile and the other silly people in the DNC whose own inflated sense of importance have put us in this mess. Senator Obama, it is time to join Senator Clinton and urge that the Florida and Michigan delegations be seated. The time is now. Not in August.

Join Senator Clinton and the Democrats of Florida and Michigan, and urge the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations on May 31. For your own sake and the sake of Democrats everywhere.

By Big Tent Democrat

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).