Legal Commentary

Move On's False Petition

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Speaking for me only

Move On, unfortunately and disappointingly, backed by Open Left, has chose to circulate a false petition defending Nancy Pelosi's outrageous behavior. Move On falsely states that:

A group of millionaire Democratic donors are threatening to stop supporting Democrats in Congress because Nancy Pelosi said that the people, not the superdelegates, should decide the Presidential nomination.

This is false. Nancy Pelosi stood against the will of the people as expressed by the popular vote. Let's remind Move On and Open Left what Pelosi said:

Political prognosticators give Clinton more of a chance of catching, or even surpassing, Obama in the national popular vote but Pelosi argued that super delegates should follow the pledged-delegate, not the popular-vote, leader.

"But what if one candidate has won the popular vote and the other candidate has won the delegates?" asked Stephanopoulos. "But it's a delegate race," Pelosi replied. "The way the system works is that the delegates choose the nominee."

But Move On's contempt for the will of the people and the popular vote is not new, nor is it new for the Pelosi family:

Like Move On, Speaker Pelosi's daughter, Christine Pelosi, seems not to care who wins the most votes in this nomination process:

"Many of us are elected by the grassroots of the party," she said, "And I cannot imagine going home in November to those people and try to phone bank for someone who did not capture the [pledged delegate] vote... We were all galvanized by what happened to Al Gore in Florida."

Apparently Ms. Pelosi does not at ALL remember what happened to Al Gore, he won the POPULAR VOTE, and lost the vote of the "delegates" to the Electoral College. Ms. Pelosi has it exactly backwards. I for one would be dismayed if the Popular Vote winner were denied the nomination due to the undemocratic pledged delegate process - with its undemocratic caucus and apportionment processes. That would be a travesty.

I expect this type of contempt for the will of the people from Move On now. It surprises me to see Open Left embrace that same contempt.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).