How To Make Love To A Superdelegate

...Superdelegates ought to hold out. But these nearly 800 party activists shouldn't just wait around decoratively, like potted plants, until the voters of Montana and South Dakota speak on June 3 (let alone whenever and however the voters of Florida and Michigan speak for a second time). Not only might the delegate and popular vote totals still fail to produce a clear-cut winner by then; the superdelegtes will also have surrendered a tremendous opportunity.

Instead of superdelegates responding individually to calls that push their hot buttons, why don't they organize themselves, right now, and act collectively? Instead of selling their votes separately in exchange for personal pet projects, why not coalesce around a great national issue, and attempt -- while it's still going on -- to affect the course of the campaigns currently being conducted by both candidates?

Imagine what might happen if the usual political G-spot touching that transpires during these calls to superdelegates didn't work. Imagine instead if the campaigns got an earful like this:

"You know what might win my support? You're a Senator. Why are you waiting around until you're inaugurated? This is the most brazenly lawless administration in history. Every other day the president spits on the Congress with signing statements. Every week George Bush and Dick Cheney and their minions figure out a new way to piss on the checks and balances system. They torture, and then they lie about torture, and then they get away with it. They've got the pardon power in their hip pocket. They destroy evidence, they refuse to testify, they forbid their Justice Department to enforce contempt citations, and there's zero accountability for it. The only contempt is the contempt they have for Democrats every time you cave and compromise with them on core principles. These war criminals have you so freaked out by the possibility that they'd call you bad names -- terrorist-appeasers, Osama-enablers, jihad-symps -- that you're scared to stop them from raiding our treasury, ruining our armed forces, and condemning our kids to tragedy. You do a lovely job of talking about the future. But there's nearly nine more months for this Republican junta to do damage to our country. What are you going to do to stop it? If you're not as mad as I am about the past seven years, and if you're not as scared as I am about this eighth year, then it may not matter who on our side tops the ticket, because some of this trashing may be undoable. You want to know what my political erogenous zone is? It's called the Constitution, and it's on fire, and I want to know what you're going to do about it -- not next January, but now."

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