The Political Whore

Over at Demconwatch, they’ve basically proven what we’ve known here in the Sunshine State for quite some time: we’re irrelevant when it comes to deciding the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee.

An analysis of five different scenarios involving the Florida and Michigan convention delegations (both officially on the “no fruit cup” list for violating party rules and moving their primaries up ahead of other less populated and less important states) shows almost no hope for Hillary Clinton no matter what combination of seated or unseating of delegates is arrived at. In two scenarios, Barack Obama has clinched a majority of pledged delegates and an almost certain nomination. Only in one scenario does Clinton even come close — if all Florida and Michigan delegates were seated exactly as the voting occurred (recall that Obama wasn’t on the ballot in Michigan) Clinton would still be 71 total delegates behind Obama.

In an interview with the St. Petersburg Times yesterday, Obama said he would accept seating half (or more) of the delegates from Florida and Michigan. The Clinton campaign’s response in a telephone conference call today was pretty much the same as Gen. Anthony McAuliffe’s response to the German army in Bastogne.

Oh, and today, Florida Senate Minority Leader Steve Geller filed a federal lawsuit to force the delegation’s seating (and a restoration of their fruit cup privileges, no doubt). He joins other courthouse windmill tilters Victor DiMaio Jr. and Bill Nelson on this subject.

The Party just never ends …

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