Clinton’s victories last night in Ohio and Texas may give the impression that here in Pennsylvania the democratic primary will be critically important to securing that party’s presidential nomination.
Of course, all it really did was ensure that nobody’svote matters anymore. Neither candidate can secure enough pledged delegates to be the presumptive nominee at the convention, so it is all going to come down to the superdelegates.
I remind you, those super-delegates aren’t elected by anyone.
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John McCain now has all the pledged delegates he needs to become the GOP nominee to be president of the United States. I plan to support him.
Of course, we got to this point without anyone asking a single Pennsylvania Republican to actually, you know, vote on it. That’s not democracy. It’s not democratic republicanism, even. I guess it’s sort of an oligarchy. Not that this stopped the PA GOP from offering an endorsement. Oddly, I’m actually a committeeman, and still nobody ever asked me about it.
So, those elected in April to be delegates to the GOP convention should know that the nation at large doesn’t care about their votes. So treat it with the regard party leaders show it, and formally abstain. If told it is important for party unity that they vote for John McCain, suggest then that the party should act in a way that values their participation.
If told they should observe the will of their districts, happily agree. Then say as there is no way for any of us to actually know the will of these districts, thus an abstention is the best possible choice.
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