The Fox News headline reads, “New Hampshire Democrats defy Biden, DNC ultimatum to ditch first-in-nation primary: ’embarrassing situation.” What it should say is, “NH Dems watch from the sidelines as Republicans leave them no other option.”
That’s the real-world meat and potatoes of the article. The DNC blessed Biden’s primary Calendar, but no one in the Granite State has any control over that, so they are on board with ignoring their political matters – even though it will cost them half of their delegates to the convention.
What, you may ask, does accepting that fate sound like?
“Granite Staters appreciate and respect the responsibility of the over 100-year tradition of the First in the Nation New Hampshire primary. They understand New Hampshire has a special place in the history of American politics and their place in it. We look forward to continuing that tradition here next year and in the years to come,” longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley said this summer.
This from the party that fixed not one but two primary seasons to ensure Bernie Sanders wasn’t the nominee, and perhaps every other before it, for all we know. I mean, other than putting on a show, is there truly any point?
To their credit, NH Dems were vocal in opposition to Biden’s proposed changes, mostly becasue it abrogates any relevance they might have politically, but it’s their own damn fault.
As I also noted here,
Instead of building an inclusive and diverse bench to elevate candidates of color, [NH Dems] went all white all day and night. At the same time, those “racist” Republicans were nominating people of color almost every cycle, while Democrats were defending pasty white incumbents even when polling suggested it was time for a change on the Democrat side.
Dems accused Republicans of white guilt when they nominated not-so-white candidates, but we don’t have that. They do, and they still couldn’t bring themselves to walk the talk. They chose power and politics over rhetoric which, ironically, has been our position with regard to their white guilt narrative all along.
But it’s not just New Hampshire that is telling Biden and the DNC to stuff it.
South Carolina Democrats are on board, but Palmetto State Republicans will hold their primary later in February. Nevada Democrats are game, but the Silver State’s GOP — after an unsuccessful legal push to opt out of a Feb. 6 primary — is aiming to hold a Republican presidential caucus two days later. And Georgia’s Republican secretary of state this spring set the state’s primary date for May 12 of next year, rebuffing the DNC.
Iowa, which was left out of the DNC’s early voting states calendar, is still looking for ways to remain the leadoff contest without violating party rules.
It’s almost as if these places think this is a Republic, and they can do whatever they damn well please? Oh, look, it is!
As for the NH Dems, it’s cute how they are acting like stalwart defenders of New Hampshire’s over one-hundred-year tradition, but it is only becasue they have no choice. Nothing irks a progressive more than tradition and history, and riding them of it – all of it – is at the top of every bucket list next to getting rid of us.
