Reply #98: At the convention in Denver

[graycem]

as Dean has been saying for quite some time now. You just don't get an unfair advantage since you broke the rules. Your anger is misdirected. Vote out the Democratic party in your state that decided to take the chance and break the rules.

BTW, what happened in 2004 with MI that Terry M. stripped them of half their delegates? I read an article about that somewhere. Why is it that MI and FL can't get their crap together. Seems they always want to cause a problem with our elections. Voting and Voting according to the rules isn't all that difficult. Oh huge surprise, MICHIGAN tried the same crap in 2004. Was Terry hated as much as Dean is now???


"I'm going outside the primary window," told me definitively.

"If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses," I said. "We will have chaos. I let you make your case to the DNC, and we voted unanimously and you lost."

He kept insisting that they were going to move up Michigan on their own, even though if they did that, they would lose half their delegates. By that point Carl and I were leaning toward each other over a table in the middle of the room, shouting and dropping the occasional expletive.

"You won't deny us seats at the convention," he said.

"Carl, take it to the bank," I said. "They will not get a credential. The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, Carl, you go ahead and do it."

We glared at each other some more, but there was nothing much left to say. I was holding all the cards and Levin knew it.