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Are Democratic Honchos Showing Good Sense? Will Wonders Never Cease?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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There's a significant chance that the Democratic Party can self-destruct and squander a presidential race that's theirs to lose. If super-delegates choose the candidate with fewer pledged delegates, the Party will be "Democratic" in name only. To avoid irreparable harm, these political bosses must follow the people's choice. Here's the report: "Former Vice President Al Gore and a number of other senior Democrats plan to remain neutral for now in the presidential race in part to keep open the option to broker a peaceful resolution to what they fear could be a bitterly divided sd:

convention, party officials and aides said Friday. . . . Democratic Party officials said that in the past week Mr. Gore and other leading Democrats had held private talks as worry mounted that the close race between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton could be decided by a group of 796 party insiders known as superdelegates. . . . The signs that party elders are weighing whether and how to intervene reflects the extraordinary nature of the contest now and the concern among some Democrats that they not risk an internal battle that could harm the party in the general election." For more click here. That's a paradigmatic understatement. Squandering this next presidential election can fragment the Party into warring factions. Indeed, it's just the sort of debacle that could cause the Party's demise if that still possible in the twenty-first century. Democrats must avoid even the appearance of Party bosses backing anyone but the popular choice. We do not need a political elite--especially one comprised of such politically challenged individuals--to reverse the will of grassroots voters. Let the nominee be chosen by the people themselves.

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Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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