Lannie Davis - Superdelegate & Clinton supporter, "Dont change the rules in the middle of the game"

[stevenleser]

He was just now on CNN talking about Superdelegates, and I agree. However, I also apply this to Michigan and Florida.

If you want to do something about Florida and Michigan, both candidates and the DNC and the state parties should all get together and agree. The delegates should not be seated as is because that was not the rules when this primary season began.

[MadBadger]

1. Lanny davis is a scumbag.

[jefferson_dem]

2. Lanny is one of the most irritating Shillbots.

Was he talking about "changing the rules" such that the supers overturn the will of the popular electorate? If that's the case, I agree with Irritating Lanny.

[ruggerson]

9. There's no rule that says that the superdelegates have to vote for

either the peson who won the most votes or the person who won the most pledged delegates.

Anyone who advocates that they must is trying to change the rules for political convenience.

They just have to vote their conscience.

If you want to change the rules, great do it for 2012.

[jefferson_dem]

11. Nobody is arguing that there's a formal rule in place that dictates how the supers should vote.

Each "super" should vote his or her conscience. But that calculation best include overriding principles which are far more important than these two candidates in question.

Bottom line: If these inside-the-beltway establishment-types overturn the judgment of rank-in-file Democratic voters and caucusers...we are no longer the democratic Party. Period.

***

Superdelegates, Back Off

By TAD DEVINE
Published: February 10, 2008

...

The superdelegates were never intended to be part of the dash from Iowa to Super Tuesday and beyond. They should resist the impulse and pressure to decide the nomination before the voters have had their say.

The party’s leaders and elected officials need to stop pledging themselves to either Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Obama, the two remarkable candidates who are locked in an intense battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

If the superdelegates determine the party’s nominee before primary and caucus voters have rendered a clear verdict, Democrats risk losing the trust that we are building with voters today. The perception that the votes of ordinary people don’t count as much as those of the political insiders, who get to pick the nominee in some mythical back room, could hurt our party for decades to come.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10devine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[jasmine621]

3. The rules stink! starting with open primaries.

I am tired of others deciding the Dem candidate for us in this primary.

[goodgd_yall]

4. As I see it, it's "rule of law" vs. justice

The big picture is that, if left as is, Michigan and Florida voters are being denied a voice in who should be the Democratic nominee. It's not enough to say everyone knew the rules, everyone signed on to the rules, etc. The voters of both these states don't deserved to be deprived of their votes.

[stevenleser]

6. I gave a remedy. You saw that, right?

[DefenseLawyer]

8. Obama took his name of the ballot in Michigan

Weren't those voters "deprived" of the chance to vote for him? Your only "big picture" is that you want Hillary to be the nominee. I didn't hear her (or you) complaining until after the fact when it was obvious she was going to need those delegates to have a chance.

[stevenleser]

12. It would be, except that it only became important to Hillary when started to lose...

... so it isnt even that.

[Torgo Johnson]

5. Leapin' Lanny Davis is a hypocrite of the worst kind

He sure did not mind changing the rules in the middle of the game when his client Joe Lieberman decided to ignore the will of the Democratic voters of Connecticut and run as an "independent democrat". I would have loved to see the look on his face when he found out that his buddy Joe was supporting John Mccain instead of Hillary.

[Marlie]

10. Yeah, Lanny Davis

Has been around shilling for the Clintons for years and years. I will never forget his support
of Lieberman. He's one of the entitled who has been around for far too long.

[TexasObserver]

7. If Hillary took a dump on Lanny's plate, he'd say "oh boy, ice cream" and eat it

And he'd try to get you to take a bite.

He's the biggest Shill on TV, and that's saying a lot.

[u2spirit]

13. Lanny still has his lips firmly attached to Leberman's butt

He is a DLC twit.