Saturday May 30th, 2008 marked the death of the Democratic party. If voter apathy was a problem before then they haven’t seen anything yet.
I was working the show. It was a lively meeting charged with
a lot of emotion. Now I am the first to say that I do not keep up with the
rules and such of the Democrats. I am a hard core republican at heart. I was
there to do a show. What I got was a whole lot more.
It seems from the bits and pieces I gleaned, that an old
outdated rule regarding some timing issue precluded the Florida
and Michigan states from counting any of their votes for the democratic candidate. It was
even mentioned that this was a very old and outdated rule that should have been
done away with years ago. But through the concrete smiles of the majority, the committee
hid behind the letter of the rule. “We are a group who follow the rules of ourcharter.”
What was really special is that they skipped lunch and
worked from nine in the morning until almost three. They listened to all the
witnesses regarding the petition before them to re-instate the voice of the
voters of Florida and Michigan.
They announced that they would
break for dinner and be back at four PM to debate the issues before them.
But at four nobody from the committee showed up. The
audience, they ones there to witness the process were all there waiting. Almost two hours passed before they showed up again.
They [the committee] went and debated in secret!
It was apparent that nobody would see who and what was said. But the faces and
the tone of voice of those on the committee who had been beaten was solemn but
the fact that they were conceding the battle because they were leveraged into submission in secret could not be denied.
The other techs reacted much the same as me. A gapping pie hole! We sat there slack jawed and smiling. I have never seen a party implode before and it was really a site to see.
The bottom line is that if you are a Democrat and you are voting differently that the power core of the committee, then you and your voice don’t matter. Security had to remove more than one.
And the expletives that came out of the gallery when they found out that they had been duped into believing
that anything was left for debate, was vicious by a fish wife’s standards. There were even expletives remarking towards the validity of the committee member’s parentage. It appeared that the power core was enjoying it too. The stone smiles that couldn’t be knocked off of their faces with a sledge hammer when the protests started was more than obvious and no attempt to hide them was made either.
All I could think was that Rush Limbaugh has just been given this golden goose and it’s new limousine. I can’t wait to hear how he reacts to this one.
I think it marks the end of the party. My suggestion would be to walk and join the Republicans. You could vote for McCain and feel like you’re voting for a Democrat anyways. He’s gone so left it would almost seem like you were voting for Billary or Obama.
It was almost like the DNC was already doing the deed. The Committee couldn’t have done more to get McCain elected if they came in holding signs politicking for him. I was disgusted and I’m not even a Democrat.
The one thing I know is that we need the Democrats.
Otherwise good Republicans wouldn’t have anyone to point towards, when they
tell their children, “Do you want to grow up to be like them!”
