TOP SECRET CLINTON CAMPAIGN PLAN REVEALED!!1!

by: XavierLA

Mon May 05, 2008 at 17:43:28 PM EDT

What if I was to tell you that deep within the bowels of the Arlington headquarters of Sen. Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign there is a room.

In that room, there is a folder.

In that folder, there is a top-secret plan...a plan to have the Michigan and Florida delegations seated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August by going to the Rules & Bylaws Committee and asking for just that.

But this isn't like any other top secret plan.  Because this plan is not a secret at all.

In fact, as far back as September 2007, those instrumental in the challenge to the oversized influence of early-voting states have been making very public statements to that effect.

What if I told you that the recent hullabaloo coming from Obama supporters, may have more to do with the "potential toxicity of an Obama candidacy and the possible drag he could have down-ballot this fall," then it does with the shocking-nature of the information "just recently confirmed" about the Clinton campaign's strategy.

What if I were to point you to the following information all of which proves conclusively that challenging the RBC decision is nothing new?

Sen. Hillary Clinton, February 2008:

...I think it's important for the DNC to ask itself, Is this really in the best interest of our eventual nominee? We do not want to be disenfranchising Michigan and Florida. We have to try to carry both of those states. I'd love to carry Texas, but it's usually not in the electoral calculation for the Democratic nominee. Florida and Michigan are. Therefore, the people of those two states disregarded adamantly the DNC's decision that they would not seat the delegates. They came out and voted. If they had been influenced by the DNC, despite the fact that there was very little campaigning, if any, they would have stayed home. But they wanted their voices heard. More than 2 million people came out. I mean, it was record turnout for a primary. Florida, in particular, is sensitive to being disenfranchised because of what happened to them in the last elections. I have said that I would ask my delegates to vote to seat.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, January 2008:

I believe our nominee will need the enthusiastic support of Democrats in these states to win the general election, and so I will ask my Democratic convention delegates to support seating the delegations from Florida and Michigan.

Former DNC Chairman Don Fowler, December 2007:

"No one at this table believes that the delegates from Florida and Michigan will be absent from the convention," Fowler told the rules panel.

Sen. Carl Levin, December 2007:

The threat not to seat the delegates of Michigan and Florida at the Democratic convention is a hollow threat. They will be seated, and when they are, it will be plain for all to see that the privileged position that New Hampshire and Iowa have extracted through threats and pledges from candidates is on its last legs.

Debbie Dingell & Sen. Carl Levin, September 2007:

In the face of New Hampshire's decision to violate the DNC rules and your silence concerning that decision, and given our strong feelings about the need to reform our nominating process to make it fairer, Michigan's Democratic leadership decided to elect our delegates on January 15, 2008, the date the Michigan legislature set for the Michigan primary...

New Hampshire's gun remains at our candidates' heads and they fear the repercussions to their campaigns in New Hampshire if they don't sign the New Hampshire pledge -- dramatic proof, if any more were needed, of the disproportionate impact of the New Hampshire primary.

Maybe Florida will join us if we have to take our case for the seating of our delegates to the Democratic convention in Denver. And maybe Nevada will insist on maintaining the number two position assigned to it. Maybe one or more of our Democratic candidates will join us. In any event, there cannot be one set of rules for New Hampshire and one set for every other state. We are determined that Michigan not be bound by rules that are not effectively enforced against other states.

"We're going to fight for all of our delegates," Ms. Thurman said. "The disenfranchisement is on their hands."

Now, if I had told you about this top-secret "nuclear option" the Clinton campaign didn't want you to know about, I wouldn't be a good Clinton supporter--it is a secret, after all.

....But of course if I told you about this secret plan, you'd probably just think I was lying.