She raises some very good points:
Don’t veto the people’s choice.
“I think there is a concern when the public speaks and there is a counter-decision made to that,” she said, adding quickly, “I don’t think that will happen.”
She said the governors, lawmakers, DNC members and others picked as super delegates are chosen through a grassroots process and are accountable to the party’s voters.
“I do think that they have a respect — it’s not just following the returns, it’s also having a respect for what has been said by the people,” Pelosi said. “It would be a problem for the party if the verdict would be something different than the public has decided.”
Then a little later:
“Well, I don’t think that any states that operated outside the rules of the party can be dispositive of who the nominee is. That is to say they can’t make the difference because then we would have no rules,” she said.
Pelosi added, “But I do think that the best outcome for us is if one of the candidates pulls ahead and this issue is disposed of long before we get to the convention. We certainly don’t want to ignore Florida and Michigan, but we can’t ignore the rules which everyone else played by.”
These are excellent points, and the same thing a lot of us have been saying. The rules were set out months ago, rather they were right or wrong, or if we liked them or not. To change them now would be disaster for the entire party.
Think of the precident this would also set. In the future if a state decides to break the rules of the party, then they would just have to cite Michigan and Florida in order to get their delegates seated. We could end up with a much worse primary calendar down the road.