I can see the storm clouds brewing over the Democratic delegate quarrel. It’s reminiscent of how we felt in 2000 after the hanging chad incident.

Welcome everyone to what is very likely going to be dubbed the most outlandish Democratic primary process you’ve seen. You’ve got the undemocratic superdelegates; the “Texas Two-Step” which is likely is give the majority of the state’s delegates to Barack Obama, and then you’ve got the disenfranchised voters in Michigan and Florida. The nomination process is designed to perfectly mess everything up.

There’s worry that an extended Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama battle will harm the Democratic Party, but a much more realistic concern is that voters will hopefully look at the process and decide neither candidate could run a city, much less a nation.

Fair or not, the uncounted Florida and Michigan delegates were a crucial resource. Clinton needed them to have any chance in hell, and her team wants the delegates seated as is. In Michigan, this would be incredibly unfair since Clinton was the top tier on the ballot (hers was the only name on the ballot, besides Dennis Kucinich). Clinton cannot afford a “do over” since Michigan’s demographics clearly favor Obama.

Michigan Democrats originally planned on holding its caucus after the legally permissible Feb. 5 date, but then went along with top-elected Democrats who pushed for an early primary. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) then punished Michigan, ruling that none of its delegates would be seated at convention.

So what does this boil down to? For one thing, the Democrats are game-players; they put their own party in jeopardy by attempting an unfair head start. For another, Clinton lost a state she’s been counting in her wins.

Clinton needs to move ahead in the delegate count, but there’s no way she can do anything but lose delegates. That’s bad news for her, but phenomenal news for those of us who have been rooting for her failure. She needs to win every single contest in the Democratic convention by a landslide. With every non-landslide win, Clinton needs even larger victories down the road. Sorry Hil: you can cry on national television all you want, but it’s not going to happen.

As I mentioned previously, Obama has always done better in caucuses. If Clinton needs landslide wins, there’s no way she can afford a landslide loss. At this point, a Clinton nomination is unfeasible. Both need superdelegates, an idea that should be buried after this election is over, but only one candidate will go to the convention as the people’s choice, and it won’t be Clinton.

Clinton better watch where she throws her stones, because her selfish, negative campaigning is making Obama unelectable against John McCain. Her campaign needs to restrain itself. She’s not going to get nominated, so what’s the alternative? Slaughtering the alternate nominee, of course.

She needs to step down to give the Democratic Party piece of mind and to unite under Obama, objectively speaking. However, I’d like her to stay in the race, make a bigger fool of herself and bring Obama down with her, paving the way for McCain and “four more years” of Bush administration.

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