I was a delegate this past Saturday at our Sentate District Convention. Fortunately, my wife who had agreed to be an alternate tagged along. Our little precinct got 21 delegates, 12 for Hillary and 9 for Barack. Hillary's organizational structure being what it is, four of the 12 didn't show up. The two alternates took the place of two no-shows (after the Obama folks backed down after claiming they got to pick the replacements), but one Clinton delegate was replaced by an Obama delegate. Obama's people are exceptionally well-organized, thought more than a little underhanded in the way they try to manipulate the process.
My biggest take-away from the event? The Democratic Party in Texas is a remarkably disorganized beast and will succumb of its own miserable inertia unless it gets in gear. It was embarrassing, watching all of these ostensibly intelligent people trying to perform the simplest tasks and failing miserably at ever attempt. Horrific disorganization, exceptional levels of internal partisanship, and barely any effort at all trying to persuade the rag-tag masses that, regardless of which candidate comes out on top, the Democratic candidate is the candidate of choice. I overhead way too many Obama supporters say they would not vote for Clinton is she ends up on the ticket and I heard similar numbers say the same thing from Clinton supporters who would abandon the party if Obama gets the nod.
Fucking idiots!
The experience taught me something. Rather, it reinforced something I've known for a long, long time. We need at least one strong third party, maybe a couple more. We could get along well if we had the Practical Democrats as a moderate arm of the wig-outs. And even Fiscally Conservative Social Radicals would be a good party. Or the Humanistic Pragmatists.
Or something.
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