There will be plenty of picking on Republicans later, but today I write about the utter stupidity of Howard Dean and the Democrats. Yesterday, Florida’s Democrats gave up on having a re-vote of the botched primary from January that didn’t count. At first, when the primary happened, I assumed this was a Florida Democrat thing, where the state party decided to move up the primary. Turns out I was dead wrong, and it was a Republican controlled state legislature and Republican governor that moved the primary up. The national Republican Party also penalized Florida by cutting their delegates in half, and this seems to have caused no problems for them. The national Democrats, however, led by Howard Dean and agreed with by Obama and Clinton, decided to strip the state of its delegates.

How stupid can you be? Honestly, if Republicans moved up the primary, why the hell would you penalize all the democrats? Howard Dean and his cohorts have to be morons, what else could you think? Now that Florida can’t figure out how to re-run the primary, the voters in Florida have been totally screwed by the Democrats. They have no excuses. I don’t think one could even blame the Republicans really, it’s not like they have the power to strip delegates.

What Dean should have done is said, “Hey, we know the Republicans are being assholes about this in Florida, but we won’t let them stop democracy and mess with our party, so we will count the delegates this year, and work something out with them for next time.” Didn’t happen and I don’t know why. Seems simple to me.

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