For Florida and Michigan voters: The Democrat party doesn’t want your vote…until November.

“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.”    

–Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers

If Dr. Brothers’ observation is in fact true, the Democrat voters of both Florida and Michigan must feel really special and loved these days. Headmaster Howard Dean and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) have unashamedly paid loyal voters of these politically significant states the ultimate political “compliment” by totally taking them for granted and brazenly saying their vote doesn’t count. And the mainstream media seems perfectly willing to let it slide and the outcry from the rest of the Democrat party has been mild at best.

The Democratic National Committee punished Michigan and Florida for moving up their primaries before Feb. 5, stripping them of all their delegates to the party’s national convention later this summer in Denver. The two states have been struggling to come up with alternative plans to ensure their delegates are seated. But a re-vote in either state appears unlikely.

Someone pinch me… Am I dreaming? Is this still the United States of America? Has it come to this? Have we arrived at a such a low point of cultural and political decline that one of the two major political parties of the greatest country on this earth has the unbridled audacity to discount tens of thousands of American citizens most basic right? What would our Forefathers think? Does anyone at the DNC HQ have a copy of the Bill of Rights? Apparently not. 

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
— Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)

Is the DNC so incredibly (and possibly insanely) “comfortable” with the historical loyalty of its state by state party members that it so easily assumes the voters in these stabbed-in-the-back states will simply take this curious chain of events lying down? It would seem so.

A favorite saying of mine is “For every action, there is a reaction.” Howard Dean and the DNC would do well to keep that thought in mind come November if the votes from Michigan and Florida are ultimately tossed in the trash like yesterday’s garbage. Afterall, it’s not those votes that stink, it’s Dean’s and the DNC’s blatant disregard of their voters’ wishes that is smelling up the joint.

If I were one of those same disenfranchised voters I would be very tempted to shed my disenfranchised grief and happily return the “compliment” come November by voting for Republican candidate John McCain.

That might send a wake-up call of epic porportion to the DNC that those voter’s votes do in fact count—for more perhaps than the amazingly arrogant Dean and the DNC ever imagined—and the subsequent outcome just might bring an end to Dean’s inane reign as head of the careless committee and bring the DNC itself to its knees as both might very well be left with the reality of another four years of a Republican in the White House.

At the end of the day, the punishment dealt by the DNC might pale in comparison to the retaliatory punishment sent “Return to Sender” by the understandably angry voters of Florida and Michigan. Proving that all is fair in love and war…and in politics in America in 2008.