I am really getting tired of all the threats coming from the Dems these days.  On one side you have Clinton supporters threatening not to get behind the party’s eventual candidate unless that candidate in Hillary Clinton.  Now, we have Governor Bill Richardson making not-so-veiled threats against superdelegates who haven’t made a choice before the end of the primaries.  That goes completely against what Senator Obama is trying to make this race about.  If I were Senator Obama I’d be on the phone to New Mexico telling Richardson to chill.

I have to say I just don’t understand Jeff Jarvis’ point of view on the Florida/Michigan compromise. As he has from the beginning of this whole mess Mr. Jarvis, and many others, say the voters of these states have been disenfranchised.  I’m sorry, I just can’t buy that lame sort of reasoning.  By definition, disenfranchising means depriving people of their right to vote.  No one in Florida and Michigan were deprived their right to vote; no one was standing at the voting booth to beat them back.  Both of these states knew the rules going into the primary season.  Both states were told their primaries were in violation of party rules and what the consequences were.  We can all debate the stupidity of the primary schedule; I mean, I think it’s archaic and asinine that two tiny little states have so much control over when primaries happen.  However, that’s how it is, and Republicans are no different.

Mr. Jarvis seems to think this compromise means the Dems will lost the election in November. I say bullshit on that.  Sure, having Florida and Michigan votes counting for half their norm is difficult, but again I say they knew the rules from the beginning, so now they need accept the consequences and the compromose.  Instead of party officials in those states blathering about disenfranchisement, they need to starting rallying their states’ voters and get behind the eventual nominee.  It’s time to move on.  If Mr. Jarvis is correct and Dems lose in November because of this overblown dust-up then we deserve to lose.  I want President Bush out of office and I don’t want McCain stepping in, so that means I’m ready to vote for whomever the eventual nominee will be.  Right now it looks like that’s going to be my candidate of choice, Barak Obama; however, even if it was Hillary Clinton I would be voting her with no misgivings.  We need to remember that and stop acting like losers before the election has even happened, and I wish Hillary Clinton’s supporters would keep that in mind when they start talking staying home in November.