Good grief, already. Hillary and Bill will be speaking at the convention. The Florida and Michigan delegations will be seated. Hillary's name will be entered in nomination. There will be a roll call where Hillary's delegates will be able to publicly cast their votes. What more to Hillary supporters want?

Hillary's supporters wanted a coronation and didn't want to follow procedures.

1. Hillary and her campaign entered the primary season assuming the nomination was hers and that the convention would be a coronation

2. Procedures

a. The Democratic state parties of FL and MI broke the rules when they moved their primaries to an earlier date

b. As a sanction, the DNC ruled that the FL and MI delegations would not be seated

c. All candidates agreed to this ruling and agreed that they would not campaign in FL or MI

d. Hillary's was the ONLY name on the MI ballot; ALL other candidates took their names off

e. These primaries were not much more than a name recognition contest, given how early they occurred

1. Michigan: no one knows what the result would have been had all candidates been on the ballot

2. FL & MI: no one knows how many people stayed home because they were told the votes would not count

3. FL & MI: no one knows what the results would have been had the candidates campaigned in these states

One must consider the possibility that Hillary would have won fewer delegates in FL and MI had they been contested

f. DNC solution to FL & MI delegate problem:

1. the DNC imposed sanctions on FL & MI

2. all candidates agreed to abide by this ruling; Hillary Clinton did not register any objectons to this ruling

3. DNC did not have to lift the sanctions and could have stuck with the initial ruling

4. in the interest of taking the White House, DNC came up with a compromise where some FL & MI would be seated (and now all these delegates will be seated)

g. it was not until the Hillary camp saw that a coronation was not going to happen that they raised objections to the DNC sanctions of FL & MI; when she saw that she was losing Hillary wanted to change the rules of the game

h. Caucuses and the popular vote: Hillary and Bill Clinton have been heavy hitters in national politics for years; in addition, the have been leaders of, powerful players and had powerful allies in the DNC for years and; they are experts on the system; so if they believed that the system was flawed they had the power to fix it; that did not happen

1. Caucuses: had Hillary won Iowa and the other caucuses she lost she certainly wouldn't have thought caucuses were flawed

2. Popular vote:

a.) in the primaries delegates are allocated according to the percentage of the vote each candidate gets; winning the popular vote is irrelevant in the primary process;

b.) it is in the general election that electoral votes are given based on the popular vote in each state

c.) the allegation that Clinton should get the nomination because she got more popular votes holds no water: see a.) above and the states used to tally Clinton's tally were cherry-picked - the count did not include all states

To reiterate, the Clintons were powerful players in the DNC and could have changed the procedures if they thought they were flawed, not until the nomination began slipping away did they object

Where did the 25% figure come from? Also, it would interesting, but probably impossible, to know how many of that 25% are imposters - Republicans who would not have voted for the Democrat in November regardless of who she/he was.

PUMA is a fraud. The Executive Director and founder of PUMApac, Darragh Murphy, gave money in 2000 to John McCain (campaign contributions are a matter of public record). When asked about this she said that in 2000 she supported Al Gore and thought that McCain would be weaker in the general election. Yet, she never gave Al Gore a penny. And this is a women who lives in Carlisle, MA, an affluent suburb of Boston. Presumably she could have afforded to give some money to Gore. (Can't remember where I read this but I Googled PUMA and got several hits.) It would be interesting to look at PUMApac donors and cross-reference to Republican donors.

Me too: 51 year old white woman, "one hot flash away from renouncing my demographic group."

The letter writers who think an Obama loss would "teach the DNC a lesson" have swallowed, hook line & sinker, the false narrative created by the Clinton campaign to explain away her loss. The democratic primaries and caucuses, while not perfect, were fair. The Clinton campaign never complained about the process until it looked like Hillary was not going to clinch the nomination by February or March.

What is the point of this "lesson"? That democratics will have an epiphany, run to Hillary as their savior, apologize for doubting her? Just won't happen. The Clintons and the FOB&Hs no longer control the DNC. And, once the DNC have been "taught the lesson" what would you have them do?

What good has ever come from acting out of spite?

I believe that continuing Republican rule will come very close to ruining our country and we must change course. I believe that Obama is the best person for the job. Yet, no Hillary supporter has ever asked me why I believe this. I would love to have been able to engage in a respectful, dispassionate discussion with a Clinton supporter on the merits of each candidate.