Hillary Clinton doesn't get it

Hillary Clinton, on CNN, just said, "I will do whatever I can, if I'm the nominee, to get the Florida delegates seated." Wolf Blitzer responded by sensibly noting something that so many in the media seem not to understand: "if this is a very close contest in Denver at the Democratic Convention, a brokered convention, those Florida and Michigan delegates could be decisive." He then asked Hillary, "Would you go to court to get them seated?"

Hillary's ridiculous response: "Oh, Wolf, this is all pretty premature. We don't even know who the nominee's going to be yet."

Did she honestly not understand the question? Of course we don't know who the nominee's going to be yet -- and in Blitzer's scenario, when the time comes to decide whether or not to seat those delegates, we still won't know! And the very matter at issue -- whether the delegates get seated -- could itself play a potentially huge role in determining "who the nominee's going to be"!

Hillary, along with most of the media, has it completely backwards. The prevailing theory -- that the nominee presumptive will insist on the delegates being seated -- only works if there's a nominee presumptive. The far more interesting scenario is the one Blitzer astutely raised, and Hillary flatly ignored. And it's getting to be a very realistic scenario.

It's going to be a huge stinkin' mess if that happens.

Comments

[USC 2L]

Doesn't understand? Or doesn't want to answer at this point?

[Mad Max, Esquire]

Hillary sounds like a complete idiot. Then again, she thought Musharref was running for re-election when he was already "re-elected" this past Summer.

Maybe she isn't as smart as people think?

[Hal]

She signed the pledge.
She signed the pledge.
She signed the pledge.

The woman is craven in her lust for power.

She will do and say anything, and change nothing.

[4-7]

Oh how humorous it will be if Hillary being the nominee depends on counting votes in Florida (ones that were not supposed to be counted by rule, as opposed to accident).

[Mad Max, Esquire]

They tried this kind of crap in Nevada when Hillary didn't get the union endorsement out there. All of a sudden, Casino workers shouldn't be allowed to caucus, even though the Clintons didn't say anything about it until they lost the endorsement.

The people make Dubya look like an f-ing saint.

Say no to HillBilly 2 - The Wraith of Con!

[Ken]

This could be a real problem for the Democrats. If Obama is nominated, after opposing the seating of the Florida delegates he will likely incur the wrath of the Florida voters when he campaigns in the fall since their votes were disregarded at the convention. You can bet the Republicans will talk loud and long about the way the Dems disenfranchised the voters of Florida (of all states...remember 2000?) in the selection process. At least the Reps are giving Florida 50% of their delegates (and given the current trend I think it is likely that McCain will wrap up the nomination before the convention and thus the Reps. will probably allow all the Florida delegates anyway.) So in a crucial state Florida (and Michigan too of course) the Dems are likely to really have stepped on it when they decided to eliminate those delegates.

[OC Domer]

Brendan - What she means is: If seating those delegates will help her win the nomination, she'll sue anybody she has to, break any pledge, tell any lie, betray any ally to make it happen. Hillary is a lot of things - but never, ever assume she's stupid. She may play stupid when it helps her, but she's not stupid.