Rachel Maddow continues to say John McCain will win

By GottaLaff

On my drive home, I listened to Rachel Maddow. She explained what the DNC Rules Committee can and cannot do, as does TPM:

In what could potentially be a blow to Hillary's electoral hopes, such as they are right now, the Democratic National Committee's lawyers have declared that the Rules and Bylaws committee lacks the legal authority to seat the full Florida and Michigan delegations.

The DNC's lawyers sent a memo late yesterday to members of the committee telling them that the two states must lose half of their convention delegates for skirting party rules and holding earlier elections.

Rachel went on to say, "Nobody listened to me when I said Hillary would take this to the convention... Only the Credentials Committee can decide to seat all the delegates. And when do they meet for a vote? In August... Democratic convention time!"

One way the delegations could end up being seated in full is if the Credentials Committee takes up the matter in late June -- but this would mean that the fight would drag on to the convention, because any Credentials Committee ruling would go to the convention floor for a vote.

Rachel went on: "Hillary's hoping to change some minds at that time, and this means we won't have a candidate until the convention. And that means John McCain wins."

I remember the last time I posted about Rachel's take on this, a Commenter (Clancy, maybe?) said that Rachel tends to panic. However, Rachel also tends to be right, as she has been so far on this topic. I sincerely hope she's wrong, because if she's not, then I'll be the first one to panic.