Bernie is playing by the rules. H camp: New rules now!!

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35. Frankly this super delegate debacle just gets more and more interesting.

I am of the opinion that they should go away, but since they're here, the melange of contradictory theories as to how they should work has been quite fascinating. I'm hearing they should go with the popular vote of their state, until that applies to Grijalva and others whose states went with Bernie. Then I hear they should go proportionately with the states, but doesn't that just make them more pledged delegates? Surely that was not the intention behind them. And, lately, I hear some of them are getting threatened with having their tongues cut out.

Super delegates are anti-democratic. They should go away. Everyone arguing over what is the correct magical, mystical formula as to how they should work is simply putting a bandaid on the fact that they shouldn't be part of the process at all. But so long as they are part of the process, those who are given the role of super delegate are given those roles not to support the will of the voter but what is best for the party.

In this sea of arguments for open primaries and independents voting, one more proof of what super delegates actually are is the fact that there are, as far as I can see, no super delegates who are not Democrats. They wouldn't be, because they have nothing to do with the will of the voter.

Argue as you will that super delegates are un-democratic. I would agree with you, but then why try to justify all these attempts to fit a square peg in a round hole?

Oh, and can one get timed out for calling Howard Dean a sellout? I've heard whispers.