Carville's sports analogy doesn't hold water!
I just sat here and watched James Carville on CNN laboring in an attempt to use sports as an analogy for Florida and Michigan not getting re-do's of their primaries - saying that you don't end a game with 4 minutes left on the clock just because one team is losing.
But if we're going to use sports analogies, let's be fair and perfectly clear here! There are TWO reasons while Carville's little analogy doesn't fly.
1) In every sport there are PENALTIES! If one team breaks a rule, they ARE penalized. This isn't arbitrary. They are penalized EVERY time they are caught breaking a rule.
Voters in Florida and Michigan elected their lawmakers, and those lawmakers KNOWING broke the DNC party rules regarding primary dates. To clarify some confusion - contrary to what the Clinton camp and main stream media have spun, these lawmakers were FULLY AWARE that their actions would strip these states of their delegates and chose to vote to move their primaries up in spite of the ramifications. Not ONLY were these state lawmakers FULLY AWARE of the consequences of their actions, the lawmakers in Florida voted almost UNANIMOUSLY (118 to 0 in their house, and in their senate only 2 lawmakers voted against it) and the lawmakers in Michigan overwhelmingly voted in favor of moving up their primary 5 days AFTER Florida was officially stripped of it's delegates for defying the party's rules! THEY KNEW FULL WELL WHAT THEY WERE DOING - AND DID IT ANYWAY!
Hillary Clinton signed the DNC pledge to punish these states in accordance with the rules Florida and Michigan chose to break. She even reaffirmed this pledge on public radio. It wasn't until AFTER she realized that she'd lost the nomination that she became impassioned about this issue.
2) NO SPORT CHANGES THE RULES OF A GAME AFTER THE GAME'S BEGUN AND IS STILL BEING PLAYED! PERIOD!
Carville's little analogy did much to point out that he, too, is willing to say and do ANYTHING to get this thing to work out the way the Clinton's think it should... but if this WERE football, they'd all have been thrown out of the game for "unsportsmanlike conduct" or "unnecessary roughness" long ago.
But if we're going to use sports analogies, let's be fair and perfectly clear here! There are TWO reasons while Carville's little analogy doesn't fly.
1) In every sport there are PENALTIES! If one team breaks a rule, they ARE penalized. This isn't arbitrary. They are penalized EVERY time they are caught breaking a rule.
Voters in Florida and Michigan elected their lawmakers, and those lawmakers KNOWING broke the DNC party rules regarding primary dates. To clarify some confusion - contrary to what the Clinton camp and main stream media have spun, these lawmakers were FULLY AWARE that their actions would strip these states of their delegates and chose to vote to move their primaries up in spite of the ramifications. Not ONLY were these state lawmakers FULLY AWARE of the consequences of their actions, the lawmakers in Florida voted almost UNANIMOUSLY (118 to 0 in their house, and in their senate only 2 lawmakers voted against it) and the lawmakers in Michigan overwhelmingly voted in favor of moving up their primary 5 days AFTER Florida was officially stripped of it's delegates for defying the party's rules! THEY KNEW FULL WELL WHAT THEY WERE DOING - AND DID IT ANYWAY!
Hillary Clinton signed the DNC pledge to punish these states in accordance with the rules Florida and Michigan chose to break. She even reaffirmed this pledge on public radio. It wasn't until AFTER she realized that she'd lost the nomination that she became impassioned about this issue.
2) NO SPORT CHANGES THE RULES OF A GAME AFTER THE GAME'S BEGUN AND IS STILL BEING PLAYED! PERIOD!
Carville's little analogy did much to point out that he, too, is willing to say and do ANYTHING to get this thing to work out the way the Clinton's think it should... but if this WERE football, they'd all have been thrown out of the game for "unsportsmanlike conduct" or "unnecessary roughness" long ago.
