Michigan and Florida: Outrage Was Denying Right to Vote in First Place

The mainstream media, in typical fashion, has done its best to look at Michigan and Florida (the primaries) through the prism of the Democratic Party point of view, and the somewhat hypocritic maneuvers of Hillary Clinton, rather than correctly.

Correctly, as this blog told you EARLY (before they became this big an issue in the nomination fight), the way the Democratic Party treated Michigan and Florida represented an attempt to deny the RIGHT TO VOTE to the PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA.  The fact that Democratic candidates for President, including Hillary Clinton, AGREED to endorse this OUTRAGE only compunds the problem.  It does not excuse it.

Remember Robert Torticelli?  Hew was the Senator from New Jersey who got in a scandal after he was ALREADY NOMINATED as the Democratic candidate for the Senate (he was the incumbent).  It was obvious he was going to LOSE.  Therefore, the Democratic Party pressuered him to withdraw, leaving the Democratic Party without a nominee.  Easy, right.  The party just names a replacement (which was the whole point in the first place of pressuring the withdrawal). 

Problem (in New Jersey that year):  New Jersey law said it was TOO LATE to name a replacement for Torticelli.  That would have given the seat to the Republican.  Not so fast.  Democrats, as they do when it is a matter of POWER (not as a matter of principle) sued based on the sacredness of the "right to vote".  The argument was the Democrats, and the voters in general, could not be deprived of the right to vote, with a CHOICE, because of technical rules which would deny them such a choice.

Democrats, especially Barack Obama forces in the primaries although Democrats do it routinely against Republicans, also SUE (based on that same "sacred right to vote" when they want the polls to stay open later in Democratic precincts (using as an excue some glitch or other that purportedly kept people from voting during the legal voting hours).

But, in Michigan and Florida, the "rules were the rules".  The Democratic Party did their best to DENY voteers the sacred "right to vote".  Unlike the Republican candidates, who REFUSED to make such an agreement, the Democratic Presidential candidates even agreed not to campaign in Florida and Michigan.  This was a direct DENIAL of the "right to vote", and has not been cured by the "compromise" allowing the actual results to count for HALF.  Voters in Florida and Michigan were still DENIED a real "choice" for their vote.  Yes, you CAN say that Hillary Clinton DESERVES to lose the nomination because she AGREED to this OUTRAGE (no campaigning in Michigan and Florida).  However, Barack Obama also DESERVES to lose the nomination, for the same reason.  He went further.  He even took his name off of the Michigan ballot to make sure that the votes of Michigan voters did not COUNT. 

Look what happened.  John McCain's victory in Florica virtually clinched the nomination for him.  Meanwhle, taking their cue from Democrats, the media pretty much ignored Hillary's victory in Florida.  If Florida and Michigan had COUNTED for half AT THE TIME, then Hillary Clitnon woudl probably now be the Democratic presumptive nominee for President.  What difference does it make that it is her own fault (in major part)?  The VOTERS were still denied their say.  Even now, Hillary's claim to a majority of the popultar vote is being challenged because of relying on Florida and Michigan. 

This denial of the "right to vote" to voters was always DISGRACEFUL.  The media's willingness to act like this was okay was also always DISGRACEFUL.  I gave, I think, a previous Flying, Fickle of Fate award to the media for that one:  denying that the "right to vote" is IMPORTANT.  If I did not, I should have.  See Saturday's entry for the deserved, related award of "the Finger" to the mainstream media for its disgraceful performance last week (a disgraceful performance made evident by the Rules Committee vote on Michigan and Florida, which exposed the LIE of the media asserting that ITS delegate count would determine the Democratic nomination before the Democratic Convention).

Nope.  This blog has been correct all along.  The issue here is the RIGHT TO VOTE.  Barack Obama should be ashamed of trying to deny it (still).  Hillary Clinton should be ahamed of tryin gto denty it (back then, although she has been PUNISHED for that mistake).  And the mainstream media hould be ahsamed of contiually acting like the RIGHT TO VOTGE (regardless of the position of the candidates or the Party) is important. 

None of these people, however, have any shame.  That is especially true of those sanctimonious hypocrites in the mainstream media, who should not even be able to face themselves in the morning.  The despicable AP, for example, called the landslide Puerto Rico victory today by Hillary Clinton merely "symbolic".  Was to DIS the "right to vote" AP, as you have throughout this campaing.  Hell, I don't believe any AP person HAS a mirror in his or her house, on the same principle that VAMPIRES do not have mirrors.

P.S.  No, I did NOT forget Florida, 2000, when Democrats and the media were willing to endorse the idea of counting DEFECTIVE ballots, in the name of the "right to vote", i fthe INTENT of athe votger could be discerned.  Every vote had to count.  I did not specifically mention it above, because if you do not relate the above argument to Florida, 2000, then you are an employee of the despicable AP (or Democratic Party or far left organization or other far left media "news" organization), and nothing I can say is going to have an impact on you.  You already have no mirrors in your house.