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Remember the Do-over?

Remember the Do-over? I do. We'd play street hockey using rocks or whatever for the goalposts of the net we couldn't afford...

Kritter: It was over the post!

Wally Tosi:No way, it was in! That was a goal!

Kritter: Oh you're so full of it, it went right over the post.

Wally Tosi:Give me a break, it was WAY in.

Kritter: Well, it wasn't WAY in.

Wally Tosi:Yeah, but it was definitely in.

Kritter: No it wasn't, it went RIGHT over the post.

Then the Beemer says "OK, take it over." Good ole Stanley Beemish.

And we would. Because we wanted to play. Not bicker. Was it perfect justice? Of course not. "Because it was in! No it wasn't, it was over the post." Get it?

So now some folks want a do-over to resolve the issue of the FL and MI. I'm down.I wanna play, not bicker. But do-overs are rare in the grown-up world, Usually the best you can hope for is a note saying "we're sorry you lost because we effed up. Our bad."

The unanswered question regarding this remedy is “can they do it?” What has to happen for a re-do to occur? Are there arcane laws against it? Could the GOP push the rules and regs to prevent it, preferring to force dems to stew in their own juices?

You could argue the dems deserve to stew. I said at the time that the unseating of the FL and MI delegates was utterly idiotic, and now it’s bitten the party in the ass about as badly as it possibly could have. Problematic as it is, I have a deep appreciation for the poetic justice of it. It was an act of grand hubris for the party to tell these states they couldn’t have their primaries when they wanted to, and then to punish them. After all, who PAYS for these primaries?

That raises another worthwhile issue. If the dems want a do-over, who has to sign off in each state, and who pays? Both states are well within their rights to tell the democratic party that if they want a do-over, the party can pay for it. They already got their freebie, and it was rejected. If it was my state, I’d make the party chairman hand-deliver the state one of those big giant checks to pay for the new election, along with a public apology.