Hillary is trying to rig the vote
The Clinton camp has recently been fighting to challenge the Texas caucuses behind the scenes, while hoping to publicly bring the validity of caucus delegates into question again (see past Nevada caucus legal threat by Clinton camp and camp supporters and her many statements against the caucus process). As usual, they say one thing publicly, that the campaign itself will not be challenging Texas caucuses (this pledge came after some took the Clinton camp to task over the legal posturing they used to try to discredit the Texas process in the first place: from the Burnt Orange Report), but do another privately, train volunteers through campaign lawyers to contest the caucusing process and request a "double-checking" by their camp of those caucusing.
"[The Clinton campaign] is giving legal advice to some voters who are mounting challenges and is having volunteer lawyers closely watch the proceedings", said Clinton state chairman Garry Mauro: from the El Paso Times
The problem with this usually democratic process (when you are relying on superdelegates to save you from voters/caucusers you aren’t being democratic — and when you say that delegates pledged from voting aren’t bound to that pledge and if they vote for you instead that is ok you are even less democratic) is "the potential for anger is more pronounced — and the consequences more dire — than in most campaigns because this contest is being waged along the fault lines of gender and race, with the would-be first female president versus the would-be first black president.
That was starkly evident Saturday at one convention in Houston, where mostly white Clinton supporters repeatedly challenged the credentials of black Obama backers in a heavily black district that had voted overwhelmingly for Obama.": from the LA Times (flasbacks of Florida anyone else?)
O’course the other problem for Clinton is that besides the actions themselves being undemocratic (nothing says facist like disenfranchising black voters in America with white lawyers) it is also so undemocratic to try to game races for yourself by eliminating the parts that don’t favor you in the first place. But forget that quibble Hillary, and when lawyers don’t work and you can’t seem to spin the whole thing as a contest you are winning (because you are behind in delegates from both primaries and caucuses, and even superdelegates), why not try appealing to delegates and superdelegate to go against voters?
And if getting your lawyers to challenge the legitimacy of Obama supporters and caucus tallies isn’t enough, setting up spin isn’t enough, and appealing to delegates to ignore voters isn’t enough, how about rigging the contests instead?
She is the new George W.
