Posted by
Katherine Harms on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:35:03 PM
The road show in Denver is prime evidence of the real agenda of the Democrat party. It is all about appearances. Substance counts for nothing. The very idea of pretending to have a roll call vote cast from delegates’ hotels on Wednesday morning as a device to keep the public from seeing the real party issues is evidence of the complete socialist mind at work.
In an organization organized as a democracy, people have disagreements. Gather any two people together, give them a divisive issue to discuss, and you will almost certainly hear three points of view. Within an organization of millions, a delegate community of thousands, you will absolutely have differences of opinion on any subject that comes up. If the organization is a democracy, differing viewpoints will be expressed, everybody will vote at the end, and some decision will be made. The majority of votes will carry the day, and everybody will work together, even if some of the group sings “Wait till next time.”
When I watched Democrat convention on television, starting with 1960, I saw this sort of thing happen. The delegates gathered and raucously supported a lot of possible candidates for president. There were parades and demonstrations. There were speeches. Then there were votes. Sometimes there were a lot of votes. The party quivered and quaked and entered into combat with the gloves off. However, eventually they selected a candidate and moved forward. Nobody thought it was strange that there were differences. In fact, the party celebrated the fact that differences existed.
Not this year. This year, the leadership of the party intended for the convention to anoint and crown Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton’s wildly successful candidacy was supposed to be locked away in a dark corner and forgotten about. They wanted this event to put on the face of unity even if there is no unity. When Hillary rose up and her supporters began to speak, the party leadership, a spineless bunch of sycophants of fake “unity” for Obama, could not endure even the possibility that someone would bring the competitive ideas of the primary into the convention. What are they afraid of?
The leadership of the Democrat party is afraid of democracy.
If we ever needed any more evidence that the Democrat party is a bunch of socialists, this is it. Socialism assumes that some leader has all the truth on his side, that nobody in the common mass has any intelligence. Socialism gives all the power and all the morality to the state, and socialism will die if real democracy thrives. The Democrat party will not nominate the anointed leader if democracy survives in that party. The leadership has picked Obama, because they plan to run him, not because they plan for him to lead the free world. They cannot deal with even the possibility that Hillary might mount at this late date any challenge that will point up Obama’s complete failure to demonstrate leadership or qualifications to be our president.
I pray that Hillary’s supporters will make noise and demonstrate their fury and rise up and make themselves heard at this convention. I am not a Democrat, but there was a time when I respected that party as one element of a healthy political climate in this country. I never wanted Hillary to be president, and I don’t want that now. Nevertheless, I do want to see her candidacy treated with respect by the Democrats. I want the party to acknowledge that she is a real leader and a very successful candidate who lost by the slimmest of margins. You talk about being marginalized! Hillary’s very near miss in the primaries has been trivialized and marginalized and now it is being demonized by the people who ought to be very proud of a strong woman candidate.
There used to be two strong political parties in this country, each making the most of the opportunities a free people in a democracy can use to accomplish their goals. Now we have one party that has shredded the whole idea of democracy, ready to let the autocrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid steamroller the free citizens who call themselves Democrats.
You go Hillary! You, too, have been a complete socialist, and you are a metaphor for the wisdom of the sage advice, “Be careful what you wish for.” If you had been the winner, I can only imagine that this scenario would be the same. You would be the anointed, and Obama would be the trivialized. We all know that. I don’t feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for America.