Upset Dems say "Let's go McCain"

CNN:

Democratic leaders hopeful that a deal to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would mark an end to the deep division the controversy has brought to the party got some instant – and less than encouraging – feedback as they finalized the measure Saturday evening.

As members of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws panel voted in favor of the measures, some supporters of Hillary Clinton's White House bid rose from their seats and began to shout “Don’t steal my vote!” and “Let’s go, McCain!”

Several paced the back of the ballroom, yelling at the committee members and chanting “Denver! Denver!” – the site of this summer's Democratic presidential nominating convention.

When Barack Obama’s name was mentioned, boos filled the room.

"This motion will hijack, hijack, remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton and most importantly reflect the preferences of 600,000 Michigan voters,” said Clinton senior adviser and RBC member Harold Ickes, who added that the White House hopeful reserved her right to bring an appeal before the DNC's Credentials Committee later this summer.

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Boston native and Clinton backer Jenny Doggett, an organizer of grassroots group Count the Votes Cast, called the DNC “spineless.”

“I think what they’ve done is divisive, destroying the party. I’m disgusted,” said Doggett, who expressed hope that the popular vote in Puerto Rico and a shift in superdelegates might still be able to deliver the nomination to Hillary Clinton. “I’m done with the Democratic Party,” she added. “I’m an independent voter now.”

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Democrat Party rules that were supposed to make things "fair" appear to be not fit for purpose to many voters. I think the biggest problem is the caucus system that allows a small group of passionate zealots to overwhelm the will of a majority of real voters. Texas was a vivid example of this where Clinton won the popular vote and Obama carried the majority in the caucuses. I suspect the caucuses in states that did not have a popular vote primary were similarly skewed.

What this has done is allow MoveOn to be a more dominant voice that its numbers would justify at the ballot box and put up a candidate whose positions on several issues are out of touch on the ballot. While polls may still show much opposition to the war in Iraq, the results on the ground are showing that most of those opponents of the surge were wrong. At some point the Democrats must pay a political price for being wrong on a matter of war in a way that would have left us much worse off than we are now.

On the issues of taxes and energy the Democrats are also out of touch. Really all they have going for them is the momentum from their negative campaign against Republicans for the last two years. As they begin to bump up against facts that negate that campaign as well as their own disaffected voters they should be in serious trouble.