A Boston Tea Part ...(Ending Is Obvious)

The Hollywood writers strike has been ongoing for three months. It has caused a delay in the viewing of my favorite television show “24”. While Jack Bauer and other television series wait for the strike to be settled, reality TV remains for our viewing pleasure. In the political world there is a wonderful reality show that will soon be grabbing all the attention. I like to call it “The Train Wreck” otherwise known as the Democratic Primaries. Yes, it is going to be another season of Democratic allegations of election fraud, cheating, and disenfranchisement except this year’s plot line exits entirely within the Democratic Party.

How ironic it is that all those allegations, about how only Republicans steal elections, will in 2008 come home to roost. The delegate count between Obama and Clinton shows Obama in the lead heading into Tuesday’s Potomac primaries. It is expected the race will remain extremely tight up to the convention. We have already seen racial and gender divisions put into play for the voting public but the bitterness should only get better. You see only Democrats would come up with a concept of super delegates, a way of making the party leadership feel like the truly elites that they are. It seemed harmless in the year 1994 when this scheme was concocted. There would never be a race close enough for these wise super delegates to decide and what a wonderful way of paying respect to such people of stature. Oops! The Democrats now stand a good chance of having these super delegates deciding their nominee. Many of these “sd’s” committed early in the process for Hillary Clinton because it was thought she would run away with the nomination. Wrong! Barack Obama may well win the most votes of the regular people and the delegates awarded based on those votes. The “sd’s” will then be left to decide whether to vote for the person who did not win the popular vote or change their allegiance. It is Bush vs Gore replayed in their own little primary season. You really can’t make this stuff up and will make “The Train Wreck” must see tv.

Any TV show or movie worth watching needs to contain a subplot or two in combination with the main plot. The subplot in “The Train Wreck” is disenfranchisement. Our wise Democratic friends thought it a very good idea to penalize the states of Michigan and Florida for moving their primaries to January by taking away their delegates. It seemed like a harmless idea at the time. Each candidate agreed not to campaign in either state. Obama and Edwards even went so far as to have their names removed from the ballots. Clinton ran against uncommitted in Michigan and then won in Florida but received zero delegates for the victories. It doesn’t take a genius to see the potential problem that exists with these votes. Democrats are experts at changing the rules of a game when the results don’t bring about the proper conclusion. Will they count the votes in Michigan and Florida for Clinton or will they have a do-over in both states? The problem with reality TV is you can’t script it; but if you could how great would it be if the nomination came down to broken chads in the state of Florida?

Over the next few months as the fight for delegates grows more intense the arguments and accusations between the Obama and Clinton factions will make “Alein vs Predator” look like a love story. The race and gender cards have been played within the party where we were told it didn’t exist. I anxiously await the next few months of “The Train Wreck”. It will be a wonderful ride but the ending is obvious. It will all have been the Republicans fault because it's in a Democrat’s genes to always remain blameless.