I swear to God, if this were involving children in this dispute, I'd hope a responsible adult would say "You broke the rules, and now you're facing the consequences. If you don't like it, tough".
But alas, we have people who don't WANT to follow the rules because it suits them to their own agenda.
The Democratic Party is likely to meet rule-breaking Florida and Michigan halfway when it comes to seating their delegates at the national convention, two members of the rules committee said Wednesday.
Such a move may help Sen. Hillary Clinton close the delegate gap with front-runner Sen. Barack Obama but not overtake him, said sources familiar with party deliberations.
The sources did not want to be identified because the full committee has not discussed the problem or ruled on it.
The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meets Saturday in Washington to consider what to do with Florida and Michigan, which broke ranks to hold primaries earlier than party rules allowed.
As punishment, both state parties were told that they would not be represented at all when the party officially nominates a presidential candidate at the August convention in Denver, Colorado, and they are challenging those sanctions.
Clinton and her supporters have been pressing for a compromise that seats as many delegates from the two states as possible. Clinton's Web site encourages people to write to the Rules and Bylaws Committee.
"There is one number that we are going to be satisfied with, and that is 2.3 million people having their votes counted," Clinton supporter Tina Flournoy said. About 600,000 people voted in Michigan and about 1.7 million in Florida.
The party needs "to recognize the January primary votes in both of those states," Clinton campaign co-chairman Harold Ickes said Wednesday.
"Pledged delegates fairly reflect the will of the voters," Ickes said, referring to delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses.
Ickes and Flournoy are both members of the Rules and Bylaws Committee.
Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, won decisively in both states. But all candidates initially agreed not to campaign in either state after they broke party rules.
Obama and some other candidates had their names taken off the Michigan ballot, but he was on Florida's ballot.
In addition to deciding how many, if any, Florida and Michigan delegates to seat at the convention, the rules committee must determine how the delegates would be allocated between Clinton and Obama.
Various formulas have been suggested, most of which would give Clinton more delegates than Obama, but not enough to overtake his lead, which CNN currently estimates at about 200.
Really? You don't say? You mean to tell me that Hillary is willing to bend or even break the rules governing the delegates so that she may gain momentum against Obama? Normally, a person would break the rules, they'd get slapped with consequences and we'd all move on with our lives. Florida and Michigan KNEW AHEAD OF TIME WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE and STILL voted early. They now have to suffer those consequences. End. Of. Story. If you think that Florida and Michigan should be counted, I highly suggest you go talk to your parents and ask them where they went wrong in raising you. I know that if I go out and get drunk and smash my car up, I'm going to jail and I'm going to have to buy a new car. Therefore, I don't go and do that. You'd all be pissed if a police officer said "well that's ok. Have a good night and head home".
It's the same thing.
Political consultant Victor DiMaio and his attorney, Michael Steinberg, had compared the decision to prohibitions against allowing African-Americans to vote. And they invoked the trauma of the Florida recount in the 2000 contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
"This is nuts. This is not right. How can they remove Florida after all the things that Florida has suffered through? Hanging chads, through Bush v. Gore, and they're sticking it to us again," DiMaio said before the hearing.
So, because Florida can't seem to get it's voting process right, that allows them to break the rules? I guess Mr. and Mrs. DiMaio didn't raise Victor correctly. They didn't teach him right from wrong. They didn't teach him that there are rules for a reason and if those rules are broken, then there's consequences. Good job Mr. and Mrs. DiMaio, you've unleashed a fucking whiner onto society. I hope you're proud.
Travis
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