Are You Going to Drink the Koolaid Or Believe Your Own “Lying Eyes”?

Yesterday, we published an interview with Marc Rubin, co-founder of The Denver Group. We discussed the offshoot watchdog organization that he and Prof. Heidi Li Feldman have formed: Democrats For Principle Before Party, designed with the goal of taking back the Democratic Party from corrupt elements that pushed Senator Obama’s nomination. Marc’s response regarding the way the Convention played out provoked a reaction from quite a few “unbelievers” among us, shall we say. Here’s what Marc said that got them so hopping mad:

The convention was a total fraud. The roll call vote was rigged, and every Democratic rule and procedure was violated in order to do it and they did it in broad daylight right in front of the watchful eyes of the news media who have the powers of observation of a drunken sailor on a Saturday night. They just let the corruption happen without comment. Some of the more egregiously blind were Mike Barnicle, Chris Matthews and of course that Olbermann guy who still thinks this is sports.

I then asked Marc what he would want to explain about the roll call vote or outcome for those not as intimately involved in the situation who still thought Obama won the nomination “fair and square”:

Well there is no accounting for people’s ignorance and refusal to think for themselves, but according to Democratic Party rules it was totally rigged. Rule 6, I believe, states clearly that pledged delegates have an obligation to vote according to the voters who elected them based on the primaries.

Just as one example, Clinton ‘landslided’ Obama in the New Jersey primary winning many more elected pledged delegates than Obama. As you saw during the roll call vote all 130 pledged delegates “voted” for Obama. And no one blinked an eye. And as everyone knows super delegates were going to decide this because Obama didn’t have the 2/3 needed in pledged delegates. They never were given a chance to vote. The last unofficial count according to Politico.com prior to the roll call vote showed among super delegates, 271 for Obama, 268 for Clinton and 160 undecided. If the roll call vote was honest, Obama would have most likely lost.

Ah, now to those “unbelievers.” Not that we wish to give oxygen to foolishness, but we actually had responders saying we had ‘no proof’ of Marc’s allegations. Sigh. Exhausting, isn’t it? Were they watching the same Convention we were watching? So here, for everyone’s edification is some proof.

For sane persons who have no intention of denying the obvious, we include raw data for you to show those who, as Marc eloquently put it, refuse to believe their own “lying eyes”.

Here first are The Green Papers’ results of the Democratic Primary:

WARNING – THESE TALLIES WILL SEND ALL HILLARY SUPPORTERS THROUGH THE ROOF WONDERING HOW IN THE HELL ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND NOMINATED
THE ENDLESSLY FLIP-FLOPPING AND UNQUALIFIED BARACK OBAMA:

The Final Tally On The Popular Vote:
Hillary Clinton 17,857,446 — 48.04%
Barack Obama 17,584,649 — 47.31%

The Final Pledged Delegate Count
Hillary Clinton 1,730.5 — 39.17%
Barack Obama 1,747.5 — 39.55%

So basically she won the popular vote and was behind him by 17 pledged delegates. Wow. What a slam dunk!! Uh, who did they nominate again?

And let me reiterate for the one-thousandth time:

1. Hillary won all the big states, save Obama’s home state of Illinois.

2. She won all the battleground states that usually decide the elections in November, like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, West Virginia to name a few…

3. She had the electoral map in her pocket.

4. She won the popular vote.

5. She won the majority of the Democratic base – not the “Republicans for a Day” – but voters who actually intended to vote for the Democratic Nominee in November – as opposed to people voting for Obama from the Republican side who were just trying to get the stronger candidate (uh, that would be Hillary) out of the race. [This is noted with all due respect to those Republicans who actually wished to vote for a Democrat in the Fall.]

6. No matter what shenanigans the DNC tried to pull by denying Florida and Michigan their votes in the primary – last time I looked, their votes do count in November. Hillary won those votes resoundingly. So it sort of would have been a good idea not to poop on them when we need them to vote for us in the General Election. Just a thought…

Who did Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Donna Brazile push to nominate again?

Delegates were strong armed not to vote for the candidate they were actually elected to support on the first ballot, based on the votes of millions of Americans. The final delegate tally from the first ballot was 3,188.5 for Obama; 1,010.5 for Clinton. Take another look at the REAL numbers above and see if that seems legal to you???

What was the primary for anyway? Why did we make all those phone calls, send in all that money to both candidates, canvass, rally, vote? Why did we vote? If over 700 delegates could be taken away from her on the first ballot with no one blinking an eye?

Why didn’t Donna Brazile just send everybody the memo ahead of time?

“Look, no matter how much she wins or where she wins, we are going to gift this to him. So get over it.”

I would have appreciated the honesty, if nothing else.

Since this race was essentially a tie, except that Hillary’s votes were won in states Democrats can actually win in November – not states like Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas and Mississippi – and she didn’t use any caucus fraud to win either, unlike someone else we could name – it sort of doesn’t make any sense that Hillary would not be our Presidential nominee.

Yes, Marc is correct. The DNC turned the nominating process into a crooked joke.

Perhaps that is why the media, Obama’s surrogates and the DNC are falling all over themselves to declare that it must be racism that is keeping him getting out in front in this contest. Does the expression CYA (uh, cover your ass) ring a bell??? Uh, is that really why we don’t want to support the DNC’s crooked contest pushing for a most unqualified, dissembling candidate: Racism?

Oh yeah, that must be it…I’m so proud all my time on the internet has taught me this expression. ROFLMAO. For the laymen out there: rolling on floor, laughing my ass off. (Emphasis mine.)

I cannot tell anyone else what to do, but today, I am donating some dough to Democrats for Principles Before Party because I’d like to see the DNC’s feet get held to the fire.

And the fire can’t be hot enough to suit me.

If you wish to help or find out more, here is their information: The Denver Group / Democrats for Principle Before Party

Please also tune in to Bud White’s excellent original interview with Heidi Li Feldman and Marc Rubin of The Denver Group on NoQ Radio.