As if one needed another reason.....
Feb. 19th, 2008 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundClinton targets pledged delegates
"Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.
What? Isn’t that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a particular candidate and cannot switch, right?"
*Sigh*
I guess the main thing that has turned me off of Sen. Clinton from the start was the attitude that she was going to be the nominee no matter what it took or whoever got in her way. And I have seen nothing that makes me think otherwise. I'm convinced that if Sen. Obama goes into the convention with a lead, her campaign will do whatever it takes to get the nomination - no matter what they have to do. If it means trying to seat delegates from elections that violated Democratic Party rules, they'll do it. If it means stealing delegates, they'll do it. Screw that "will of the people" and "popular vote" nonsense, her and her campaign staff KNOW what is "best for the country", and will do anything to do it.
I'm firmly convinced that Sen. Clinton would rather destroy any change of a Democratic win in November than accept defeat in the primary. Her and her campaign's behaviour feels like a political version of "if I can't win, then nobody can win". They would rather pull defeat from the jaws of victory, would rather sabotage anyone else's chances of victory, then lose themselves.
Maybe that's not the case, but it sure has hell fells like it.
"Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.
This strategy was confirmed to me by a high-ranking Clinton official on Monday. And I am not talking about superdelegates, those 795 party big shots who are not pledged to anybody. I am talking about getting pledged delegates to switch sides.
What? Isn’t that impossible? A pledged delegate is pledged to a particular candidate and cannot switch, right?"
*Sigh*
I guess the main thing that has turned me off of Sen. Clinton from the start was the attitude that she was going to be the nominee no matter what it took or whoever got in her way. And I have seen nothing that makes me think otherwise. I'm convinced that if Sen. Obama goes into the convention with a lead, her campaign will do whatever it takes to get the nomination - no matter what they have to do. If it means trying to seat delegates from elections that violated Democratic Party rules, they'll do it. If it means stealing delegates, they'll do it. Screw that "will of the people" and "popular vote" nonsense, her and her campaign staff KNOW what is "best for the country", and will do anything to do it.
I'm firmly convinced that Sen. Clinton would rather destroy any change of a Democratic win in November than accept defeat in the primary. Her and her campaign's behaviour feels like a political version of "if I can't win, then nobody can win". They would rather pull defeat from the jaws of victory, would rather sabotage anyone else's chances of victory, then lose themselves.
Maybe that's not the case, but it sure has hell fells like it.
