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Archive for May 10th, 2008

Why it’s all or nothing for Clinton

by @ 13:32. Filed under Politics - National.

I previously noted that in the modern era of Presidential politics, the Republicans have always gone for the person deemed to be “next in line”. One of the criteria used to determine the person who is next in line is the person who finished 2nd in the previous contested primary season.

There is no similar “next in line” in the Democratic Party. Indeed, 5 of the last 6 Democratic candidates, prior to their first nomination, had never sought the office of President, with the sixth (Al Gore) attempting to get a promotion from Vice President. Yes, Walter Mondale also had served as Vice President, but 1984 was his first and last attempt to become President.

The last person who won the nomination after failing to secure it in a previous attempt and without taking up residence at the Naval Observatory was George McGovern. He finished 3rd in 1968, and used the reforms he came up with to take away the nomination process from the party bosses to become the nominee in 1972. Before that, one has to go back to 1924 and John W. Davis and his nomination on the 103rd ballot after failing to get the nod in 1920. Needless to say, neither recycled candidate won the White House.

Revisions/extensions (1:58 pm 5/10/2008) – The news just gets worse for Clinton if she fails this time around. The Democrats have gone for a previous failure (either in the nomination process or in the general election) five times in the previous century (William Jennings Bryan for a third nomination in 1908, Davis in 1924, Adlai Stevenson for a second nomination in 1956, McGovern in 1972 and Gore in 2000), and lost all five times. Past performance is an indicator of future performance.

R&E part 2 (2:10 pm 5/10/2008) – I forgot to mention Lyndon Baines Johnson and his last-second attempt to get the nomination in 1960. In any case, he did serve as VP and President prior to 1964.

Are the Democrats Franchising?

by @ 9:00. Filed under Miscellaneous.

Documented here, the Democrats have  instituted yet another social program to garner votes for the upcoming election.   In an unprecedented move, party leadership has taken to the streets in the area of targeted voting blocks, to personally hand government assistance to the desiring population.   While the assistance was actually acquired by fleecing “Rich” citizens, the party leadership, while delivering it, was heard telling the assistance recipients how they personally felt their pain and were personally doing something to assist.   Not only did they not point out that the assistance actually came from other concerned citizens but,  during the distribution, the leaders denigrated the actual providers as uncaring, cold hearted and Conservative.  

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week’s devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.

We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on the side of aid shipments from Asia, saying this was a gift from them and then distributing it in their region,

What? Huh?

I’ve just been told that this wasn’t the US Democrats handing out more government relief.     It looks like this is  an international franchise that has purchased  and applied the Democrats  patented “Voter Management Module.”  

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