03/30/2008 (1:41 pm)
Desperation Leads the Unwise to Folly
According to the Telegraph of London, the Democrats are considering letting Obama and Clinton tie on the first ballot, and then substituting Al Gore as the nominee.
Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.
The bloody civil war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has left many Democrats convinced that neither can deliver a knockout blow to the other and that both have been so damaged that they risk losing November’s election to the Republican nominee, John McCain.
Former Gore aides now believe he could emerge as a compromise candidate acceptable to both camps at the party’s convention in Denver during the last week of August.
Two former Gore campaign officials have told The Sunday Telegraph that a scenario first mapped out by members of Mr Gore’s inner circle last May now has a sporting chance of coming true.
Ok, tell me if this makes sense to you: Obama wins most of the smaller states and holds a slim majority among Democratic voters, especially blacks, who for the first time see one of their own with a reasonable chance to become President. If Clinton wins the nomination, they will feel they have been disenfranchised, and a large percentage (about 22%) claim they will not vote for Clinton. Meanwhile, Clinton remains only a few delegates behind Obama, having won all the states that Democrats need to win in order to win the general election, and the Democrats aren’t going to win the states Obama won. If Obama wins the nomination, a large percentage of Clinton’s voters say they will feel disenfranchised, and will not vote for Obama (another 22%).
Solution? Disenfranchise both groups.
Make sense?
Ed Morrisey, who quoted the maxim in my title, today earns my admiration as the best commentator on the Internet with his pithy analysis of this story. Conservative attorney Mark Levin notes the same irony I do, and hopes the Democrats do it. Jules Crittendon adds the further irony that Gore isn’t any more electable than either of the damaged articles he’d be replacing:
I think my favorite part … aside from the whole thing, that is … is the idea that replacing the Hero of Tuzla and the change-hoping bigot buddy with an exaggerating doomsayer somehow gets this train back on the rails.
Honestly, can you imagine how much fun it would be, listing all the outright lies and misinformation from An Inconvenient Truth all through September and October? Be still, my beating heart! I swear, Rush Limbaugh must be praying 150 Hail Marys a day hoping for this.
It all started from this Time Magazine article by Joe Klein last Wednesday. And now, we’re actually talking about the Party of the Downtrodden and Disenfranchised plotting in smoke-filled rooms to diss the Woman, subjugate the Black, and replace them both with a fat, old White Man.
This is desperation on a remarkable scale, and the entire mess arose from the inability of Democratic party leaders to trust the rank and file to select a candidate properly. The Democratic party is horribly misnamed, being led, as it is, by elitists who despise democracy. They created Superdelegates to prevent the grass roots from selecting the candidate, and now the Superdelegates might prevent a nomination on the first ballot, leading to a convention bloodbath and horse-trading in the back rooms. Justice is being served.
Quoth Karl Rove to the Young Americans Foundation, winning the Schadenfreudification of the Day Award:
You know you got a problem if the answer is Al Gore.
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7 Comments »
Comment by Jay @ OFR
“This is desperation on a remarkable scale, and the entire mess arose from the inability of Democratic party leaders to trust the rank and file to select a candidate properly. The Democratic party is horribly misnamed, being led, as it is, by elitists who despise democracy.”
Most certainly.
Oh, the law of unintended consequences strikes again, a.k.a. liberalism.
Comment by Douger
Only the few in the Democratic party who are capable of independent thought think there’s a crisis.
The DU/Kos branch dream of mandates and a landscape littered with Republican corpses.
It really all depends on how the show looks in August. If your typical liberal moron shows up…the Recreate ‘68 crowd…Republicans have a fair chance of at least holding their own.
Comment by Old Mike
Letterman or Leno should hire Rove as a writer.
Comment by Fred
Personally I think this is just misdirecting the public. Few candidates, especially from the Dark (liberal) side could stand up to honest scrutiny. Having watched Al Gore’s political career since the Clinton administration used, er selected him as VP and the political folly that has followed, I can honestly say I already believe him to be a “Compromise(d) Man”.
Comment by Robert
Living near the Denver Metro area, there’s been a lot written in the local press about the Recreate ‘68 crowd submitting numerous applications for park permits in the area immediately surrounding the Convention Center. Trust me, they’re gearing up for quite a protest! I doubt that Colorado (Which was a GOP stronghold until the Dems stole the last election with money from a couple of wealthy out-of-State liberals) is going to allow a “free speech area” surrounded with barbed wire like they did in Boston.
Of course, Denver is opening it’s schools two weeks later than normal so as not to interfere with the Democrat convention for “security” reasons. There aren’t any schools within several miles…
Robert
Comment by Robert
BTW, you might want to check out their propog- er, website here:
Or as http://www.facethestate.com puts it: “The mission of RE-create ‘68 is to stage mass protests during the DNC convention this August. This is normal. A large national convention will inevitably attract a lot of society’s worst elements into town. I’m talking about extremists, perverts, radicals, and thugs – or as the Democrats call them: “Delegates.”
Robert
Comment by Phil
I’ve actually read that page, Robert. Astonishing.
I’ve been saying for years that the far left of the Democratic party is actually, psychologically stuck in the “glory days” of the 60s and 70s, aching desperately to revive their relevance and that sense of glorious mission they had; that’s why so many of their errors involve assertions that were true in the 60s but are no longer true today. My thesis got a boost when they named this round of protests “Recreate ‘68.” How loudly can they remind us that they’re stuck in the past?
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