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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Delegates to John Kasich: Aint Gonna Happen

It's occurred to me that lately Bernie has been reminding me of John Kasich. I mean his legacy in 26 years in the Senate is more like Ted Cruz-a principled gadfly that mostly doesn't sully himself with actual legislating.

Better to remain pure than condescend to actual governing.

But in what he has been saying about his path to victory lately, he sounds sort of like Kasich. I watched both of them in recent interviews and they get very peevish when actual delegate math is brought up.

Running for President is too sacred to talk about who's actually winning. Lately, Tad Stevens has been trying to claim that somehow the math doesn't matter, just 'momentum.' After demonizing super delegates and insisting that it's a crime against democracy to have unbound delegates-those who can vote who they wish for, contrary to who the state's voters did-now he's suggesting he will try to get delegates to do just that and vote for Bernie even though the voters are voting for Hillary.

The attempts of the Bernie team to twist the delegates arms haven't gone so well-many have taken offense.

Ironically, what this about face means is Bernie's team is acknowledging that the party decides'-whereas the previous posture feigned outrage at this fact. Of course, no way would the party give the nomination to someone who the voters have rejected and who isn't a Democrat besides, but has merely been renting the party.

Tad Stevens, of all people, who was one of the creators of super delegates knows all this perfectly well.

Meanwhile there is a plan a foot to steal Trump's delegates in the GOP primary. Kasich is having some problems:

"When South Dakota's Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican National Convention, they got an unexpected visitor."

"Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus to make an appeal: If the convention fails to elect front-runner Donald Trump on the first ballot, consider Kasich on the second — even if the state’s Republican voters sent them there to back Trump or Ted Cruz."

"Madrid was polite and earnest, but, according to interviews with 17 of the state’s 29 delegates, he came up empty."

"Kasich will not get my vote no matter what he does. That ain’t gonna happen," said delegate Allen Unruh, a Sioux Falls chiropractor and tea party activist.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/inside-the-shadow-campaign-to-deny-trump-the-gop-nomination-221172#ixzz43rXYxYWB

Aint gonna happen. That's another thing Kasich and Bernie have in common.



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