Associated Press and AFP photos
Misguided Billary Cunton supporters (that's redundant...) like these, photographed in Florida earlier this month, plan to disrupt this weekend's meeting of the national Democratic Party's rules committee to determine what should be done with Florida's and Michigan's delegates when there isn't even anything to fucking discuss: Michigan and Florida were fucking warned before they decided to hold their presidential primary elections too early that if they did so they would be stripped of their delegates to this summer's Democratic National Convention, and even discussing the matter any further will only encourage other states also to give the national party the middle finger, weakening the national party's authority.
Reason No. 666 why Billary's still a cunt
This is fucking priceless:
Billary Cunton has been comparing Florida 2008 to Florida 2000, likening the fact that Florida was stripped of its delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention because Florida's stupid Democratic Party officials stupidly held their presidential primary election too early, in defiance of the national party, to the fact that the Repugnicans stole the presidential election in Florida in 2000.
Her comparison, like her campaign and her character, is shit.
But here is an oranges-to-oranges comparison of Florida 2008 to Florida 2000:
It was in late 2000 that Repugnican operatives acted as shock troops at ballot-counting sites in Florida in order to help steal the White House for George W. Bush. Reported Salon.com at that dark time in our nation's too-recent history:
...GOP protesters in Florida have not just limited their actions to the streets, but have stormed the offices where ballots are being counted. As Broward County election officials counted hundreds of new ballots for Al Gore, the GOP unleashed its fury on a weary canvassing board there. One Republican observer threw a fit during the proceedings in the Broward County Courthouse and had to be removed. Meanwhile, a Republican on the board appeared to be deliberately slowing down the recount process by devoting excessive attention to each ballot.
The protest and delay tactics all seem part of a GOP strategy to sabotage the Florida recount, even though the hand count was sanctioned by the Florida Supreme Court. And the strategy is working. Intimidated by protests which threatened to turn into a riot, the election commission in Miami-Dade County cravenly halted its recount...
This time, it is Billary Cunton's supporters who plan to act as shock troops in order to get their way. Because the facts and fairness aren't on their side, they are hoping, just as the Repugnican thugs did in late 2000, to get their way not because they are right, but because they throw the loudest tantrum. Reports The Associated Press today:
Washington -- The Democratic presidential race is heading into a fractious end game as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton mobilize for a protest Saturday to demand that the party count two outlawed primaries that favored her.
Protesters planned to rally outside the Washington hotel where the party's rules committee will tackle the vexing question of how to punish Michigan and Florida without completely disenfranchising Democratic primary voters from those states.
At least several busloads of Clinton supporters were anticipated from Florida and perhaps scores of people from Michigan as well as demonstrators from various parts of the country.
Barack Obama's campaign discouraged a counterprotest, although his supporters vied with Clinton backers for the limited public seats inside the meeting.
Among the scheduled speakers at the rally are Clinton fundraiser Elizabeth Bagley; two members of Congress who back the New York senator, Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio and Corrine Brown of Florida; and Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. Her group's political action committee has endorsed Clinton.
Party officials voted before the two January primaries, without much controversy outside those states, to strip Michigan and Florida of their convention delegates as a penalty for holding their primaries earlier than Democratic rules allowed. All the Democratic candidates agreed to the rules and avoided campaigning in either state. Obama removed his name from the Michigan ballot.
Clinton won a majority of votes cast in both the renegade contests.
Obama is close to clinching the Democratic nomination no matter what happens Saturday. As his delegate lead has widened, the Illinois senator has become more open to a compromise that would count some delegates from the two states even if that puts Clinton closer behind him.
Still, party unity is proving elusive, despite the wrap-up of the primary season Tuesday when Montana and South Dakota hold the final contests, after Puerto Ricans vote Sunday.
The pressure is intense on the rules committee to find a solution. Without one, the party's internal fight could drag on through the summer and into a divided convention in Denver, a nightmare for Democrats.
The Clinton campaign said it was not organizing the rally.
"I am aware that there are lots of people very passionate about this topic who are coming," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said his side was hoping to avoid a "scene."
"Obviously, with the click of a mouse it would be pretty easy for us in the mid-Atlantic to get thousands of people there, but we don't think it's a helpful dynamic to create chaos and in the interest of party unity, we're encouraging our supporters not to protest," he said.
Obama supporter David Wilhelm, a former party chairman, echoed that sentiment. "We're not going to have Obama folks protesting. We're not going to turn this thing into a circus."
Party officials said the roughly 500 public seats for the meeting were spoken for within minutes. The party warned those coming that they won't get to ask questions and that "to maintain the decorum of the meeting, banners, posters, signs, handouts, and noisemakers of any kind are strictly prohibited." ...
Clinton exhorted supporters earlier this month to press the Democratic National Committee to seat all Michigan and Florida delegates. A torrent of angry e-mails has been sent to rules committee members since....
"Sore Loserman" was a bogus fucking label that the Repugnicans put on the Gore campaign in 2000. Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election and it was the hypofuckingcritical Repugnicans who were the sore fucking losers.
This time, Billary Cunton's supporters inarguably are sore fucking losers. The rules of the game were established before the 2008 presidential primary season began, and Billary Cunton agreed to those rules. Now that she is losing the game, the unprincipled Billary's unprincipled supporters are acting like the sore losers that she has encouraged them to be.
Barraging the rules committee with hateful e-mails and protesting the rules committee's meeting is something that the Repugnicans would do.
There is no fucking way in hell that would I vote for Billary Cunton should she actually manage to steal the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination like George W. Bush stole the White House in 2000, with the help of shock troops sent to disrupt the fair, orderly process.
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