Madfloridian's Journal - Terry McAuliffe wants to change horses in the middle of the stream.

He wants to change the rules of the primary after the primary has already begun. He just said so on MSNBC, and he looked shifted-eyed when he said it. He knows perfectly well that he insisted rules be followed when he was chairman. He told Carl Levin in 2004 that Michigan would not even get near Boston if they moved up the primary.

Terry, Terry, Terry, that was such a dishonest thing to say on national TV. You made it sound like Charlie Crist already had everyone on board for a new primary. Hell, he doesn't even have his own party on board with it, much less the Democratic leadership in the state.

What really makes me angry is that twice in the last two days Governor Dean, your successor at the DNC, has gone on TV and said we were not going to change the rules for FL and MI since the primaries had already started. He made it clear that everyone knew the rules at the start.

Sure he said he would talk to Governor Crist, but remember...Dean first said that the offer was not for Crist to make. And it isn't. He also said FL and MI could not change the rules just because they wanted to do so.

From the CNN Late Edition transcript:

If somebody after this convention wants to change the rules and say there should be no superdelegates or fewer superdelegates, that's not a problem. But you can't change the rules.

Everybody knew when we came into this campaign that 20 percent of the delegates were superdelegates, and you can't change the rules any more than you can change the rules on Michigan and Florida.

Howard Dean said the very same thing today on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. He was even firmer about it...FL and MI can not redo the rules.

The DNC has offered money for a caucus type of do-over, but the Democratic leaders in Florida said no. Senator Bill Nelson said absolutely not.

That was absolutely sneaky and underhanded of you, Terry McAuliffe, to make it sound like Florida was disenfranchised by the party, to get their hopes up, and their anger. It was a very bad call.

You undermined the authority of the present chairman. It was dirty pool.

Depending on "magical thinking", threatening lawsuits, and ignoring party rules.

I believe that the current chairman knows that the campaign you are leading does not respect the rules of the national party.

The rules the party has put in place to choose its nominee are not the rules of the Clinton campaign and, just like the Obama campaign, we are doing what we can under those rules to secure the requisite number of delegates for the nomination. One way to avoid the situation described above is to figure out some way to honor the votes of Michigan and Florida, where there was record turnout. Counting the delegates in Florida and Michigan is a civil rights issue, and a solution needs to be figured out before the convention.

It was unconscionable for you to say it on national TV.