Why..Why...It's almost like this whole primary was scripted...

[Junkdrawer]

he...he...he...

[Kazak]

1. If Gore comes out of the convention with the nom...

then I'll have a very strong suspicion that it was all scripted. Not that I'd think that was a bad thing at all (Gore getting the nomination), it's just that I've had a nagging hunch that it's been set up for a while now to allow Gore to bypass the primary process...something about Gore's coyness about running in the run up to the primaries. I have mixed feelings about it if true, Gore's easily the best man for the job, but it seems a little anti-democratic.

[tekisui]

2. That won't happen.

We'll have an Obama, or long shot Clinton Nominee on the first Convention vote.

[Junkdrawer]

5. If Rove can squeeze Hillary in, the Black vote may be lost for quite a while...

But either way, the divisions and the Woman/Black thing will make the McCain victory seem entirely plausible.

And, in the end, isn't that what it's all about?

[screembloodymurder]

7. It will be the end of the Democratic Party.

Did anyone listen to CSPAN this morning? Hillary cannot beat McCain w/o the black vote. If she is the nominee, McCain will win and the Democratic party is over.

[LWolf]

3. I don't know.

How "democratic" is it to have narrowed the field down so early, before most voters ever got a chance to vote?

How "democratic" will it be to have a presumptive nominee before my primary on May 20th?

The primary process isn't exactly a beacon of democracy to begin with.

Gore coming out of the convention with the nomination, while highly unlikely, is the best possible outcome from where I sit.

[Kazak]

4. I agree, mostly...

It's the "highly unlikely" part which will confirm the "scripted" part for me, if it does come to pass.

[LWolf]

11. There's a part of me that can see

a "scripted" primary as a possible scenario. The other part of me looks at the ugliness, the emotion, and wonders. Are people so predictable, and so easily manipulated, that a party-rendering hate-fest can be so easily accomplished?

If so, why should we value the democratic process at all, if it is so easily corrupted?

[CJCRANE]

6. If it is

scripted then it's by people who are far more powerful than Democratic Party insiders.

And it's a script that seems designed to weaken the Democrats.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Actually, I think that's Rove's nightmare scenario...

Playing it too cute and winding up with a third candidate...

[Avalux]

8. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? We are voting on those silly machines after all. n/t

[Lint Head]

9. They're always scripted. Sometimes the script is improvised but

the story line is always followed. :dem: