You'll show us all!

Just a note about the fracas at the RBC.

For all of you idiots going on about voting rights, civil rights, and "count every vote", I will just remind you that we are talking about a primary election here, not a general election.

You have no 'right' to vote in a primary election. A primary is sponsored and sanctioned by the political party, and they can make whatever crazy rules they like. The Party can require that you pay $10,000 before you can cast your vote. They can require that you worship an idol, raise the dead, slay a dragon or defeat the Black Knight in mortal combat as a prerequisite to participation. The Party can say that all red-headed voters count as ten votes and blondes count as one-fourth of a vote. The Party can dismiss any delegate based on bad breath, bad hair day, body weight or insufficient breast size. They can make a corpse a delegate if they please. They can settle the nomination based on an arm-wrestling contest if they desire. It's an internal Party process to decide the nominee of the Party, not a general election. Nobody's "vote" is being taken away, because nobody that voted in the primary voted in a "real" election. It's that way for every Party, because that's our system. A Party is not government, it's a Party. If a Party chooses to be open to everyone, fine, but it's not some Constitutional requirement.

Second, all of you idiots saying that you are going to vote for McCain in the general election unless you get your way in the Party process are just dooming your own candidate. Unless Hillary plans to run on the Republican ticket in 2012, her ability to get Democrats to vote for the Republican candidate is not a real plus, is it? Destroying the Democratic Party is not going to get a woman elected President, unless you think Laura Bush might run in 2012. Perhaps you think voting for an elderly white male is going to make some kind of feminist statement. Yeah, that'll shake things up, won't it?

You're a bunch of electoral suicide bombers, and you're gonna show us all, aren't ya? Yeah, you're going to show the one Party that has a chance of nominating a woman as a Presidential candidate in the future that sticking your toe in that water is toxic. You're gonna teach us all that you won't vote for the Party nominee unless it's a woman, so what Party wouldn't want your fickle and highly conditional support? Well, the GOP, for one.
I mean, after seeing the GOP hijacked by Christian fundamentalists for all of these years, I'm sure that Democrats are looking at you fools and thinking "hey, we could get hijacked by single-issue voters, too! Cool!". You're making it abundantly clear that you could not care less about who is more "electable" by promising to vote for the Republican candidate. Do you perhaps think that you win some kind of prize if you vote for the winning candidate?

Here's the thing, idiots. You are fighting over who is going to get the privilege of defeating John McCain in November, and you morons are threatening to vote for McCain. See how stupid that is? See how counter-productive that is? You don't beat McCain by voting for him. So if you want a Party that is invested in beating John McCain to take you seriously, perhaps vowing to vote for him is not the most persuasive line of reasoning. And for all of you noble idiots standing up for voter's rights, I'm sure that voting for the Party that disenfranchised Florida in 2000 will make a bold statement about your concerns.

Yeah, you'll show us all. You'll make us all sorry Hillary ever got on the primary ballot in any state. You'll show us that you can't generate enough contributions to bail your own candidate out of her $30 million debt. You'll stand up for racists and Islamophobes everywhere and show how much power they really have in America. You'll show future generations of women that you're not afraid to vote against their interests if it involves some kind of tantrum. So strap on that electoral suicide vest and get out there and show us how worthless your support really is to our cause. Because the rest of us aren't going to stop believing in progressive candidates or issues simply because you want to hold your breath until you get your way.