Dick Morris Notes Why Ted Strickland and Ed Rendell Should Be Squirming
Well, not directly, but it isn’t too tough for a reader to figure out:
God help the governor of a state, or its U.S. senator, if he votes for Clinton when his state went for Obama! Because everybody knows which state went for which candidate, it is so very easy for voters to keep track. Iowa went for Obama. New Hampshire went for Clinton. Minnesota voted for Obama. California was for Hillary. Every schoolchild knows that in this most highly publicized and followed of all presidential elections. For a governor or senator to vote against the will of his state is the most obvious form of thumbing one’s nose at one’s own voters.
Both Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell have declared for Hillary Clinton. Strickland has actively campaigned for her. Rendell has raised a ruckus when he said that a significant percentage of his state’s white Democrats won’t for a non-white candidate.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey haven’t declared.
An IMO likely Ohio win 12 days from now by the candidate I often refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi†Obama) would place Ted Strickland squarely in the dilemma Morris just raised. I would expect that heavy pressure for him to change his declaration will arrive at about 12:01 a.m., March 5.
Fortunately for Rendell, he has the luxury of another seven weeks for all of this to sort itself out, which it probably will.
No different than our slimey congress critter that will vote for Osama when the district went for Shrillary. Democrats are so simple minded they will forget about that when they vote for the slime ball again.
Comment by Scrapiron — February 22, 2008 @ 12:50 am
I’m hoping for a brokered Democrat convention. Up for grabs would be votes floating around from Edwards’ delegates (about 40), from the Super Delegates (765?) and from the Michigan and Florida delegations which aren’t supposed to be allowed to vote. There would be chaos, confusion, turmoil, conflict, disturbance, demonstrations, noise and tumult–and that’s just the opening ceremony. As the convention proceeds there would be teeth, hair and eyeballs all over the convention floor. And out of the maelstrom I would expect Monica Lewinsky’s
ex-boyfriend’s wife to emerge as the victor and the nominee and the head of a hopelessly fractured party headed for election disaster in November. And I wouldn’t miss anything by watching it from gavel to gavel on C-Span.
A good friend from the newspaper profession says that a brokered convention might well choose Evan Bayh or Al Gore as the standard-bearer. So be it! That kind of compromise would leave two deeply disgruntled factions in the guts of the Jackass party instead of just one. Bring it on!
Comment by Excelsior — February 23, 2008 @ 12:55 am
#2, I want her out. NOW.
I want BOOHOO out there by himself for as long as possible. The longer he’s the clear sole standard-bearer, IMO the weaker he will look. In fact, by convention time, I think he’ll be looking to add a veep who will give him (irony) gravitas.
I would prefer that my 12/06 prediction be incorrect.
Comment by TBlumer — February 23, 2008 @ 1:19 am