The last candidate standing….



….When this spectacle is over, if ever, will there be anything left of the democratic party? Or will there just be a shambles? With voters flocking to become Independents?.

Increasingly, those in the know are asking that question.

And the speculation runs up and down on both sides of the issue.

The Convention is the Democrats opportunity to shine with their “togetherness,” their unity in the face of a coordinated effort by the Republicans to make them look like inept, left wing, liberal stumblers. It is the one chance to kick start what is left of the campaign and generate a positive image of a together Party hell-bent on winning for the democrats.

But it is the image of a liberal, left wing party that cannot get its act together that may emerge if this battle is allowed to go on and fester through the Convention..

Others feel that there’s nothing wrong letting the disharmony runs its course and that the contest should really be a contest settled at the Convention in a hard fought series of votes.

That side seems to be the minority wedded to the Hillary campaign.

Now, Ford is touting the idea of an open delegate and “Super Delegate” Convention where delegates will be allowed to vote as they see fit.

Is this the right way to go….or will it simply antagonize voters who have already expressed their views and believe that the voters and the numbers of existing delegates should decide the outcome….

Some question the potential impact of such a decision.

If the delegates do not have to stick to their delegates and vote their feelings at the last possible moment, will that change things? Will it also alienate the voters who have expressed their positions allowing for the election of the delegates in the first place?

Others, more blatantly think that such an idea is a train wreck getting ready to happen.

It seems everyone who is in a position to say something has a different idea.

The one thing that stuck me was Rachel Madow’s of Air America’s historical perspective that suggested that no party in such disarray going into a Convention, became the winning party in the national election.

Instead of bowing out if the remaining primaries do not vindicate her arguments about her electability, it is quite clear that Hillary intends to give no ground until after those delegates at the Convention have spoken.

By then, it may already be too late.

Les Aaron