Reply #131: I'm Ticked About The Misrepresentation

[iamjoy]

The Florida party DID misrepresent the facts of the issue, yes, fine, call it lied.

But, I do believe the truth is nothing would have changed the outcome of the Primary date.

OK, so it was a Democrat who sponsored the motion for 01/29/08. But that's like saying Democrats aren't anti-war because Joe Lieberman sponsored the amendment on Iran.

OK, so Democratic legislators should have protested the move - but with a Republican majority of 78 to 42, do you really think it would have made a difference in the end?

If indeed Thurman and other FDP members ignored Dean, that was foolish. But again, would that have changed the outcome? What were they supposed to do?

Imposing the sanctions of stripping Florida delegates is still wrong because millions of Florida voters had absolutely NOTHING to do with setting the primary rules or picking the primary date, yet we are the ones who lose out on our vote counting.

Finally, although I am mad at the FDP for deceiving us, I am also mad at Dean for ignoring us. He could have sent all Florida Democrats on his mailing list an e-mail explaining why he took the action he did. Please don't say he didn't want to attack the FDP, he could have made his case in a gentlemanly way. He would have gained points for that, being calm and rational when the FDP and Florida Democratic leaders were throwing around all that rhetoric. But he didn't. Now the way I see it, that's either because he doesn't have the courage or doesn't care about Florida voters.