Democratic Party Protection

Poor Bernie Sanders.  That man doesn't stand a chance...within his own party.

Despite the fact that Mr. Sanders is putting up a spirited fight and is even gaining support from Hollyweird -- didn't see that coming, did we...? -- he is miserably behind in the delegate count.  Heck, he even tied in New Hampshire, although Cankles won the coin flip, for whatever that was worth.  According to Bloomberg, the actual delegates awarded to Cankles and Mr. Sanders in the Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada primaries give Cankles a 66-52 lead.  That doesn't sound insurmountable, does it?

Well, guess again.  Because superdelegates aren't bound by the popular vote -- think electoral college, sort of -- in the Democratic primaries.  So much for fairness.  Apparently, the superdelegates are free to vote their conscience -- or pocketbook, if you prefer -- and their support has given Cankles a 502 to 71 advantage in delegates, super- or otherwise, over Mr. Sanders. 

And this is before Super Tuesday, March 1.

With a nod to John Bolton, inasmuch as the Republican debates are really not debates but organized press conferences, with authorized hecklers in the form of the other candidates, their rules seem much simpler.  Mr. Trump leads both Mssrs. Rubio and Cruz 81 to 17, with Mr. Kasich a distant fourth at 6 delegates.  But the disparity is worse on the Democratic side.

Cankles has received 88% of the delegates in play so far.  Those numbers bring to mind such democratic luminaries as Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro.  Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has received only 62% of the delegates in play.  To be fair, the Republicans have more people vying for the nomination, but that's the price of not having an Inevitability Tour.

Will Super Tuesday change anything?  Probably not.  Both the Democratic Party and the MSM want history, no matter how distasteful.  About the only history a Sanders nomination would chase is Walter Mondale's election futility of winning only one state.  Otherwise, he's just another old white guy but with a different message.

Cankles, on the other hand, represents progress, potentially the first female president in our history.  Ironically, she would just add to the ledger of ne'er-do-wells, womanizers and thieves who have become president.  Not that Mr. Trump is a sterling candidate himself.  But comparing the shortcomings of the two leads to the inescapable conclusion that Mr. Trump, for all his failings, has something that Cankles doesn't:  He's an outlier.  He's not a member of the Beltway.  He brings a spin to the White House that hasn't been seen since the first years of the Republic.  Sure, he'd have to be reined in, but only insofar as his bombast is concerned.

Cankles, on the other hand, would expand her ever-growing criminal empire and be an ineffectual POTUS to boot.  Mr. Sanders would also be ineffectual, given the present make-up of Congress, but I doubt that he'd lie and steal the way Cankles would.  Mssrs. Rubio and Cruz are different animals, but both are career politicians.  Perhaps I'm undervaluing them, but I would still choose either of them over Cankles.

Still, that's all beside the point.  What's interesting to note is that with only three states having conducted primaries for the Democrats, Cankles is almost a quarter of the way -- technically, it would be 596 delegates, but at 503 delegates she already has 21% of what she needs to be nominated --
to being the Democratic nominee.  Mr. Trump, by comparison, only has 6.5% of the 1,237 delegates necessary to be the Republican nominee. 

Has there ever been a more complicit campaign wherein the party and the MSM conspire to have one candidate become the party's nominee?  Perhaps.  I'm not a political scientist.  But in my lifetime, I don't remember the quiet coordination between a party and the MSM to assist someone overcome such a bad record to become the nominee for the presidency.

It's interesting that a party that speaks of choice so much -- school choice, women's choice, etc. -- gives its followers such few choices for the nomination for the highest office in the land.

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