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Originally Posted by zcaveman
What part of NO and RULES are we not understanding here. All of the states at the DNC convention agreed on the rules. No one can hold a primary before the Feb 5 ballot. Florida and Michigan decided to go ahead and do it anyway - DAMN the consequences and they did not think that the DNC would play by the rules.
Rules are not made to be broken.
Question: If Florida and Michigan have a re-do then will those that voted the first time vote the same way? Will all of the candidates that quit be on the ballot? I don't think so. We will be swayed by the current situation.
What is done is done. Live with it.
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The kicker is the states didn't agree to anything - some members of the Democratic Party who live in those states may have, but no one from the state's election commission signed into the DNC's "rules". The DNC has not taken on the role of super-authority yet, and no "rule" dictated by the DNC or any political party is or should be binding on any governmental body.
Perhaps this is a good lesson to all party members, regardless of affiliation, that the "party" is not the boss. That was tried in the USSR and looked what eventually happened to it.