Look how he wants to change rules:
For instance, while Obama’s campaign has been encouraging superdelegates to support the candidate with the most pledged delegates - which almost certainly will be Obama – Dean says the rules don’t require that and superdelegates are free to chose who they want.
On the other side, Clinton has been arguing lately that even pledged delegates – awarded to a candidate based on the outcome of state contests – aren’t bound to vote for that candidate at the convention. Dean called that “a very technical argument.”
“You aren’t going to get pledged delegates to move unless something really shocking happens,” he said. And he thinks it unlikely the superdelegates would support a candidate who did not have the most pledged delegates.
Dean also said the Michigan and Florida delegates will be seated at the convention. But he won’t force a resolution because he said there’s nothing the Obama and Clinton campaigns can support at this point.
“You bring both sides together and say, `Don’t you think it’s time that the two campaigns made a deal on how we’re going to do this?”’ Dean said. “Let me just say that the campaigns believe that kind of a deal is premature right now.”
So they are being seated? That helps Hillary if true.
I wonder how many Dems really regret electing Dean as their political leader.
Let’s review:
1) He has allowed fringe groups such as Moveon.org control the party.
2) He has bungled Florida and Michigan, disenfrancising a huge potentially Dem voting source in a year where the Republican candidate appeals to moderate voters.
3) He has completely mismanaged the superdelagates debacle.
4) He has allowed a man associated with a radical religious faction to become the leading candiate of his party.
5) He allowed the top two candiates for his party to run a nasty campaigns, further erroding either’s electability in the fall.
6) He as allowed one scandal after the other to sullen his party, Jefferson, Spitzer, etc) putting him on par with the Republicans as far as perceived corruptness by the general public.
7) Lastly, through all of the above he has allowed the party to splinter, which is all probablity is going to lead to a Dem defeat in the fall in a year that by all rights his party should defeat a weak, corrupt Republican pary.
Did I miss anyting?