Politics as Football
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James Joyner | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
Terry Mitchell uses a sports analogy to illustrate Hillary Clinton’s bid to count the Florida and Michigan delegates:
Suppose that the Dallas Cowboys play the Houston Texans in an exhibition game next August and the Texans win. Then suppose that the Texans subsequently appeal to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to have the game counted in the regular season standings. How fair would that be?
This isn’t a completely accurate illustration, in that the Cowboys were at least on the playing field in the example.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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I like the football analogy, except in real life Hillary would have paid off the refs and had a fan shoot the other teams players who threatened to make a TD while announcng to the world that she didn't even know the culprit was on her payroll, because George Bush probably put them there to embarass her. Oh yes - the football would always be made in China.
Don't forget that the Texans would tell everybody that they are the most "winnable" in the super bowl, and claim that the Cowboys' victory over the Patriots was "insignificant" because most of that team's players were black, or white, or football players.
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