Pelosi Threatens to Interfere in Nomination Process
What nerve.
According to CNN, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has threatened to “step in” to prematurely end the Democratic presidential nomination process. The gall.
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle “the California Democrat said she is prepared to ’step in’ if the presidential race does not resolve itself by the end of next month…’Because we cannot take this fight to the convention…It must be over before then.’ ”
Why can’t it go to the convention?
Even as Speaker of the House and the chair of the convention, Speaker Pelosi has no right to “step in” and disrupt the primary. And as she is obviously in the tank for Obama, a call on Sen. Clinton to end her historic bid for the Democratic nomination would be just as absurd as other pundits and citizen commentators urging the Democrat with half of the votes to drop out of the race.
Who the hell does she think she is?
Clinton is winning in the swing states and believes she can win more popular votes and primary delegates than Obama. Why would anyone believe someone in that position who has spent years working her way up to this moment in history would just drop out?
Reverse the roles in your head: If Obama was extremely close to Clinton in the delegate count and more Democrats had voted for him, shouldn’t he have the opportunity to make his case at the convention?
Sadly, Pelosi also said something else terribly distressing: The Democratic superdelegates should not overturn the pledged delegate winner. That’s the whole point of the superdelegates, to steer the party away from a weak nominee.
Pelosi not only wants to interfere with the nomination process she also wants to take the superdelegates’ choice away. What utter nerve.
If the Speaker truly valued party unity she would stop interfering and allow the process to play out, as it should be, especially now that Clinton and Obama are playing nice.
Pelosi and others calling for a premature end to the primary are the ones who are hurting the party; not candidate Clinton.
