The Political Chase

Clinton Plans to Obliterate Democratic Party

 (Updated below)

(Editorial Note: I should note that the HuffPo article quoted below does not cite a specific or even anonymous source, so you’ll have to make your own judgement as to its credibility)

The Clintons are planning the 21st century version of the Reformation and intend to forcibly crown themselves the contemporary versions of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Last week I wrote about the pundits on MSNBC uncharacteristically and emphatically predicting “something was up” in the Hillary campaign. Well, it has nothing to do with Hillary graciously exiting if she loses Indiana. In fact, gracious is probably the last modifier that should be associated with Hillary Clinton. She intends to storm the convention and overthrow the party by dropping a nuclear bomb on it.

Of course, this should came as no surprise given the increasingly destructive campaign Hillary and Bill Clinton have run. This plan has nothing to do with the institution of democracy and everything to do with crowning Hillary as the absolute monarch and Supreme Head of the Church — answerable only to God, and even God’s Supremacy is in doubt from their perspective.

There are no words I can use at the moment to adequately describe the contempt I have for Hillary and Bill Clinton.

If the superdelegates allow this to happen, it certainly will not be the Democratic Party I have felt represented my personal beliefs and values for almost two decades. In fact, I don’t see how the word democratic could any longer be included in the party’s official name. If the Clintons obliterate the party, so be it. Let them have it and just change the name to Bill and Hillary’s Dictatorship Ruling Party.

I don’t have to join the ranks of the Rethugs, but I sure as hell will not be associated with a party overtaken by a coup and led by the absolute monarchy of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

From the Huffington Post:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has a secret weapon to build its delegate count, but her top strategists say privately that any attempt to deploy it would require a sharp (and by no means inevitable) shift in the political climate within Democratic circles by the end of this month.

With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party’s 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could — when the committee meets at the end of this month — try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives. The Obama campaign has declined to give an estimate.

Using the Rules and Bylaws Committee to force the seating of two pro-Hillary delegations would provoke a massive outcry from Obama forces. Such a strategy would, additionally, face at least two other major hurdles, and could only be attempted, according to sources in the Clinton camp, under specific circumstances:

First, this coming Tuesday, Clinton would have to win Indiana and lose North Carolina by a very small margin - or better yet, win the Tar Heel state. She would also have to demonstrate continued strength in the contests before May 31.

Second, and equally important, her argument that she is a better general election candidate than Obama — that he has major weaknesses which have only been recently revealed — would have to rapidly gain traction, not only within the media, where she has experienced some success, but within the broad activist ranks of the Democratic Party.

Under that optimistic scenario, some Clinton operatives believe she could overcome several massive stumbling blocks…

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One of the arguments the Clinton campaign is privately making to autonomous “super” or “automatic” delegates, as well as to delegates technically “pledged” to Obama as a result of primary and caucus results, is that the campaign shifted dramatically in roughly mid-February. At that point, Clinton supporters contend, the economy replaced Iraq as the dominant issue among primary voters, and that transition led to Clinton’s successes in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania.

Clinton people also make the case that the past six weeks have seen examples of Obama’s political vulnerabilities: his wife’s “proud to be an American” remarks, the emergence of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, wider coverage of Obama’s ties to 1960s radicals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, “bittergate,” the flag pin imbroglio, and “hand on the heart” accusations — all impugning Obama’s patriotism.

Update: I should probably clarify a point. I did not intend to imply that Clinton’s nuclear strategy might prevail, or fail miserably for that matter. The strategy is what I find to be frustrating.