Letters to the Editor

• call me an optimist - it's time to close ranks

  [Read the article: The Democrats' anti-momentum]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  I agree. It's been a strange season. Although neither of these were my first choice, I nonetheless am intelectually engaged and even voted in the New Jersey primary - the first time ever. The solution devised decades ago with primaries and supers, to avoid whatever problems were most likely to recur then, might no longer be best, if it ever was.

  The party is punishing MI and FLA, but the candidates should be out front, calling for some kind of correction. Nod to Hillary Clinton on that, but, so what? The public has now had so long to stew, that the free choice of the super delegates is being questioned, and thus compromised. Big ooops. Howard Dean might be removed, as party chair after this.

  I'm hoping for a joint ticket but it seems not to be happening. I have been disapointed with the last two presidential elections. I don't care if it becomes Obama-Clinton or Clinton-Obama; a joint ticket could close the rift, and increase the chances of winning. Where are the democrats that understand how high the stakes are now?

  Permalink Sunday, March 23, 2008 07:19 PM