Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Virginia Blogger Tells it Like It Is...
The misguided e-mail that apparently made its round yesterday to Dem party activists and elites landed in the wrong mailbox.
Vivian J. Paige responded by asking superdelegates to not allow herd mentality to take over their senses:
Vivian J. Paige responded by asking superdelegates to not allow herd mentality to take over their senses:
Wham! Nothing else to add. Vivian tells it like it is.[I]t seems that these so-called “leaders” want to circumvent the system that the party has in place. Let me remind you: the superdelegates are not rubber-stamps for the public vote. To say otherwise is to ignore the reason why they exist. Don’t go trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.
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Finally, a big shout out to Jim Webb for recognizing the purpose of the superdelegates.
Uncommitted superdelegate Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., said this morning that superdelegates should be able to overturn the will of the people. “If they didn’t want the superdelegates to have independent judgment, they wouldn’t have created them,” Webb said in an exclusive “This Week” interview.