A Guide for Politburos, Good Ole Boys, and the Men and Women Who Love Them.
Step 1. If the winner of your democratic primary isn't the winner you'd prefer, all you need do is to claim that the primary outcome is http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080914/NEWS0206/809140400&s=d&page=4#pluckcomments">"incurably uncertain," or otherwise tainted. To do this, you need only invoke the possibility of GOP shenanigans and/or claim that a http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/19/obama_lawyer_questions_wisdom.html">revote to correct for alleged shenanigans would be tainted -- no actual evidence required and you wouldn't want those pesky voters making the same mistake again!
Step 2. Meet and http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2008/9/17/dems_pick_barnes_for_district_22_seat">'vote' for your preferred winner. Your new winner can be declared even if http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/obamas_pyrrhic_michigan_victor.html">his name wasn't on the ballot.
A note to the wise: These techniques have been proven effective on women only.
Note: A good summary of the backstory regarding what was done to Kurita, including the allegations that were tossed around, as well a great run down of the tn blogosphere's response can be found http://www.tennviews.com/node/3882">here.
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Wow!
I really don't know what else to say.
Really, though, why do our two parties even bother pretending that they are anything other than private organizations and that people's votes matter? Why not just erase all of the pretenses and let the state party boards (bosses) pick candidates like the good ole days?
I guess all votes are equal, but some votes are more equal than others.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
I'm wondering that too
It's a hard blow to take. Not many tn democrats want to defend Rosalind Kurita (she broke party lines even though the situation was more complex than that) but most are absolutely appalled by this. The state party really doesn't seem to care about anything outside of Nashville or Memphis (Memphis though does it's own thing since it might as well be under total control of the Ford Family rather than the democratic party) and the same folks (families) have been in charge of the state party for generations.
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
I wonder how many other stories there are like that
Or is it like the Ike news -- nothing aggregated.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Same Soviet-style process in Chicago with Emil Jones
Obama's mentor:
"Controversial" is delicately put. Looks like the RBC shenanigains aren't all that uncommon?
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Business as usual
This season it was blatant, so people are now noticing. Not to worry, though; another electoral cycle or two and what with the starving and the freezing to death in the dark, voting irregularities and back-room political deal-making will be what gets called "the good old days." Your caucus experience will be invaluable as they morph into a system for deciding who gets to stay in the clan and share the remaining rotten tubers versus who gets expelled to fend for themselves.
Thanks for this
Shocking and the wrong direction for any party.
If our votes don't matter
Will we be able to do anything that the electioneers don't want? How can there be accountability if our votes don't matter?
Now in NY: Alice Kryzan wins her primary and loses her party
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/...
She wins the primary, one of the D losers decides to pull a Lieberman, running against her third party, and the D leadership seems to be supporting him over her (another older professional woman.)
the DCCC added her to the Red-to-Blue list tho, so
maybe they will help her instead of hurting her? of course, they helped the other guy until she won in spite of them.
NY-26: DCCC Adds Kryzan to Red to Blue -- http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDia...
Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnykh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_An...
I though I left Soviet Union 20 years ago, I am terrified to find out that it followed me to the US. Any democratic countries out there accepting political refugees nowadays?
"Created in struggle by will of the people"
"Unbreakable union of freeborn republics
Great Russia has welded forever to stand!
Created in struggle by will of the people
United and mighty, our Soviet land!"
we used to believe that about ourselves : <
where did you grow up, tartu? (my family came from Vilna and Kiev pre-Soviets -- in 1906)
That would be
Lviv (Western Ukraine) and Estonia while there were still Soviet Union. Have to admit that a short stint in Chicago felt a bit like "home" in a post-traumatic, horrifying, "I forgot how it really felt" sort of way.
Some posts on your experiences would be great
Compare and contrast, don't you know.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
ahhh--
BBC news had a thing on Estonia just the other day--how it takes a week now for trucks to cross over from Estonia (which is now EU, no?) to Russia, and that there are tons of (ethnic? citizens of?) Russians living there and people are worried because of the Georgia stuff.
I'd say we're more like the "new" Russia--lawless people in power, and the rich grabbing what they can while they can, and "leaders" who are puppets like Putin's new one...
Now I see why George Washington
Was so adverse to party politics, though, I'm not sure if he'd ever imagined the two parties becoming this entrenched in our so-called democracy.
You know, I'm for comprehensive election reform, but I'd gladly compromise (for the time being) if they'd even just toss us allowing legitimate voice to other parties. You know, it worries me that I hear more about Bristol Palin in the news media than I do Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader. Talk about a media black-out.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...