Howard the Dean to the rescue

Proving yet again that they are all about power and not at all about democracy, the powers that be in the Democratic Party today came up with a great “compromise” basically deciding that Hillary should lose delegates that she rightfully won and Obama should get delegates in a state that didn’t even vote for him. 

Obama winds up taking 59 delegates in Michigan even though he wasn’t on the ballot there and wasn’t entitled to any delegates.  This infuriated the Hillary supporters and for good reason, I thought this was the party of “count every vote”.  No the Democrat party is proving to Democrats what conservatives and most Republicans have known all along, that they are the party obsessed with power and will screw any group they have to in order to obtain it.

For what it is worth Hillary seems ready to take this fight to the convention, which is a good thing.  She has almost no chance of getting the nomination from it but she can make sure that Obama doesn’t get it either.  She has done enough damage to Obama that he will certainly lose in November to McCain even though McCain is weaker today than Bob Dole was in 1996.  No for the sake of the party they will look to someone who has not been in this fight, someone recognizable but who has been above all this at least to this point.

When the convention rolls around I submit that it will be Howard Dean who emerges victorious in Denver.  Why Dean, well he pulls all the strings, he has the most to gain, he knows when it comes to Florida Hillary needs those delegates seated, but with Michigan he also knows there is no way Hillary will stand by and let Dean give Obama 59 delegates that he didn’t win.  Dean knows that Hillary will fight this to the convention, he knows that this will create such a mess that he can come in and be the savior.  He will make the case to the super delegates that both these candidates are so damaged by the primary process that neither can win in November. 

This is true, but his claim will be that he is the only person who can save them from this looming disaster.  Will this be true, could Dean save this party from itself, I doubt it.  More than likely he will hand his party a crushing defeat in November, but at the end of the day it’s all about the thirst for power and they will gladly step on each other in their quest for it.