"It's silly season." - Barack Obama

The mess the Democratic Party is in has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. It’s about the liberal-wing-nuts, renamed the progressives, vying to take control of the party and the country.

The man voted the most liberal senator in 2007 in National Journal’s 27^th Annual Vote Ratings, Barack Obama, is the left-wing’s boy-toy candidate. The party that never learns is banking their victory on Barack Obama. His supporters are Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and a whole bunch of others who lean so far left you might call them The Scoliosis Bunch.

How long this left-wing-nut coup of the party has been in the works is anybody’s guess. Likely it began when Bill Clinton became president and brought the party to the center in order to get the Democrats elected, the right thing to do. Ted Kennedy wasn’t a happy camper once Bill started making deals with the guys on the right side of the aisle, which left him out, well, in left field.

In 2000, the left-wing-nuts ran Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.  He ran to the left and rightfully lost, although his loss will forever be in dispute because of problems in Florida that the right-wing Supreme Court of the United States didn’t think existed.

In 2004, the party ran lefty-loose-mouth John Forbes Kerry. He lost, too, partly because he sailed too far to the left. Almost as if to prove his left-wing credentials, Kerry posed for a ridiculous windsurfing picture symbolically showing him tacking left. He lost to President right-wing George W. Bush.

Where in the last two election cycles the left-wing press fell for the right-wing’s candidate, this time they are left-banking on Barack Obama. Mortified by their right-leaning endorsement of George Tush, who some believe will go down, rightfully, as the worst American President in history, the press is determined to get it right this time. In fact, if it were left up to the press, Hillary Clinton would be out of this race right now before Obama makes some horrible mistake and blows his coronation.

The left are so enamored with their candidate that they are willing to overlook Obama’s Wright problem even though that might not be the right thing to do for the party in the general election where Obama would be facing the not-exactly-right-wing-candidate, John McCain, the war hero with the right stuff, who the self-righteous left-wingers are certain they can beat with their lefty Obama.

They’d better be sure they’re right before they toss Hillary Clinton to the wind.

Here’s something else that’s not right. The guys over in Boy’s Town, Camp Barack Obama,  are willing to ignore the residents of Florida and Michigan and their right to vote. Why? Because while Obama and the press keep telling everyone Obama is ahead in this contest, Barack Obama can no more get to the 2025 delegate count needed to secure the nomination than Hillary Clinton can.

Obama’s argument for the superdelegates that will be left to ultimately make the choice is that he is ahead because he won more states (doesn’t matter), he’s ahead in the delegate count by 125 (125 is not 2025), and that he stands to win the popular vote, which doesn’t matter for anything other than his argument’s sake.

But if Michigan and Florida, strongholds for Hillary Clinton get to vote, Hillary might actually have more of the popular vote and be within single digits on the delegate count, which would thwart Obama's. argument and prove that she is the stronger candidate having taken the right states the Dems need to win in the general election.

Still, the left-wingers of the party that calls itself Democratic are willing to forgo doing the right thing in order to get their candidate nominated, and are plotting with the goal that Senator Clinton be left out in the cold, which might backfire if the strong right-arm tactics to oust her continues, pushing Clinton to the center of it all -- exactly where Bill Clinton won.