Florida and Michigan

I'm watching the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.

If the Democrats aren't going to stick to the rules they established, they must seat no more than half of the delegates and split them evenly between Clinton and Obama. That is the only fair and reasonable way to seat any delegates from those two states. Any other decision will be unfair to one candidate and/or the 48 states that obeyed the rules.

This is not Florida in 2000. First, the Democratic party, not the voters, gets to decide who the nominee is. This idea that voters have some right to determine the primary nominee is erroneous. Second, the people of Florida chose to break the rules knowing that their votes wouldn't be counted.

Decisions whether to campaign or vote were based on the rules in place. What about all of the people who didn't vote because they were told it would be a waste of time? Seating Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise them because turnout was lower in Florida and Michigan than in the other primaries.

Clinton's calculated reversal on this is off-putting, but her rhetoric is despicable. It's one thing to do what you have to do to win. It's quite another to claim that an adverse decision is anti-democratic and question the legitimacy of your party's eventual nominee.