Thoughts on a Brokered Convention
April 17th 2008 11:17 pm
With each passing Democratic primary, I’ve been led to believe that a definitive answer would somehow emerge and we would know for sure who the Democratic nominee would be. Surely to God, I thought, if she loses the Texas and Ohio primaries she’ll bow out. Or, he’ll bow out.
But no. Barring a miracle next Tuesday (April 22) in Pennsylvania, we will be treated to the worst of all possible outcomes: A brokered convention. Clinton and Obama will drag each other, kicking and screaming and bickering all the way to a bloody finish line that will satisfy no one. Certainly not me.
This is not an original thought, by any means, but it is the thought that I wake up with in the wee hours of the morning (just after I realize I need to pee): If it will take the superdelegates to decide this mess, then why have the candidates spent half a billion dollars on ads and campaigns? I mean, why not just go straight to convention and let the superdelegates hand us a candidate?
This past year has been one of excesses. Money, vitriol, endless debates. Volumes have been written and spoken, and for what? So that we could watch the final Philadelphia debate descend into trivia like, why doesn’t Obama wear a flag pin? Why did Hillary lie about her trip to Bosnia 15 years ago? (And yes, honey, she DID lie, even though she bats her lashes and says, “I misspoke.”)
Aaargh! I am so tired of those two. And the other guy, doddering on the brink of old age with his WW II mentality — is that the best the Republicans had to offer?
I wish we could roll back time to the week before Gore won Florida only to have Bush steal it away. I wish we could somehow warn Floridians about the defective ballots.
What an ice cream social a Gore America would have been compared to Bush’s America.
I know I’ve said this before, and yet I feel like no one believes it. If all the millions of passionate and first-time Obama voters watch the convention and see that their votes did NOT count, if they see the old party hacks crown Hillary, they well may never vote Democrat again.
If all the voters who chose Hillary see Obama annointed at the convention by their own state leaders, do they not have the right to scream blue murder?
Who is going to be happy when the dust settles?
