It's not a pleasant place to be.
We commend the Huffington-Posted rant of one Seth Grahame-Smith, who uses a few hundred words to articulate his determination no longer to enable the former First Enabler, Senator Clinton. Ms. Rodham-Clinton's* flaws of character and experience are so many and varied that they eventually overcome even those whose politics commit them to the habitual ignoring of obvious realities.
Meanwhile, it remains a mathematical unlikelihood that the Democrats can avoid having their candidate chosen by party elders, the so-called superdelegates, which puts on display the inherent commitment of the left not to be bound by any rules or principles, even of their own making.
The Party of Jefferson and Jackson a generation ago devised a presidential nominating system that largely enshrined "the will of the people" to select its nominee but still empowered a large class of senior sages to make the final determination when the people's will was unclear. With the power to review and revise that system whenever it wished, the party continued with it happily until it actually needed the wisdom of the sages whom it so empowered.
And so now the party's own chairman has publicly told the sages not to exercise their judgment against the will of the people, as if such a thing could be discerned in such a tight series of primaries. Meanwhile, the calls continue for a mulligan for Michigan and Florida, forbidden to seat committed delegates by party rules and rulings. So one wonders after such a do-over is granted whether Iowans and New Hampshirites will ask to choose again from the now shortened list of candidates who endure the Democratic nominating spectacle. After all, they wasted some of their votes on Edwards and Biden and (saints preserve us) Kucinich. And things have changed since January. And we must count every vote! Every day!
One further wonders how a party that fully expects to be able to fund a government takeover of 18% of the US economy refuses to pay for a mail-in primary for two populous states that it styles as disenfranchised by its own ineptitude.
Such a cycle cannot end for those for whom principle is mere sentiment, laws are subject to endless reinterpretation, and contracts can be voided on political or magisterial whim. The relativists are hoist by their own petard, bereft of even the most obvious fixed points by which to extricate themselves from their self-laid trap.
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*One of the world's shortest books: Republicans with Hypenated Last Names.
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