Chairman Dean wants the Democrat struggle for the nomination to be concluded by July 1st. Why? Because he realizes that it is tearing the party apart.
From FoxNews.com:
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, hoping to avoid a divisive fight on the convention floor, weighed in on the Clinton-Obama battle Friday by calling on all party superdelegates to declare whom they support by July 1.
The 800 or so Democratic superdelegates will almost certainly decide the presidential candidate, because it’s unlikely either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will gain enough pledged delegates in the remaining primary contests to win the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the nomination outright.
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Knowing that the Super-Delegates, those elected officials and party elites within the Democrat Party, will be the deciding factor that could either confirm the will of the people or trump the will of the people as they see fit, Chairman Dean took an opportunity on the ‘Early Show’ to inform the Supers that he wants this done by July 1st.
“Well, I think the superdelegates have already been weighing in. I think there’s 800 of them and 450 of them have already said who they’re for,” Dean said. “I’d like the other 350 to say who they’re on between now and the first of July so we don’t have to take this into the convention.”
Dean is trying to avoid a brokered convention where a “compromise candidate” may need to be selected. A “compromise candidate” has been floated. None other than the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots (MDI) Al Gore. Chairman Dean would like to avoid such a “compromise candidate” because this candidate would have about 9 weeks to campaign against McCain. This is also why he said…
“You do not want to demoralize the base of the Democratic Party by having the Democrats attack each other. … Let the media and the Republicans and the talking heads on cable television attack and carry on, fulminate at the mouth. The supporters should keep their mouths shut about this stuff on both sides because that is harmful to the potential victory of a Democrat.”
He wants the focus to shift to McCain but while both candidates are still fighting for the nomination, he realizes that the infighting is doing nothing but fuel the McCain camp.
Recent polls suggesting that as many as 28% of Clinton supporters and 19% of Obama supporters will vote for McCain rather than the other Democrat candidate in the General election has got to have Chairman Dean’s blood pressure up to critical levels. This is why he wants a “sooner rather than later” solution to the infighting so they have more time to mend fences with those 28% Clinton supporters before going into the convention.
He should know the Clinton’s better than that. As long as there is a long shot. As long as there is room to wiggle. The Clinton’s are in this race to regain the White House for Billy Bob Bubba. If you think for one moment that Hillary will be a traditional President you are out of your half-baked liberal mind. She once mentioned the co-Presidency idea and that is more truth than she’s ever uttered before.
The thing that we can hope for, and with Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos we may see, a close enough fight that it does go all the way to the convention and it gets brokered. Neither candidate can or will have 51% of the votes as it stands and that frightens Chairman Dean.
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