$20 million for a vote? Umm...

A superdelegate in CA is selling his vote for $20,000,000 - yes, you counted those zeros correctly - and will support whichever remaining Dem candidate will give that much money to courting Hispanics in the general.

"Nobody's said I'm crazy," said Steven Ybarra.

I DO. I SAY YOU'RE CRAZY.

And here's why. This kind of buying elections thing worked fine back when a vote was equal to a free beer at a parade. But this is more than a beer. This is about 7 million Coronas.

Not that it wouldn't be great for Democrats to win the Hispanic vote (which, by the way, they've been doing pretty okay at recently... and though McCain is a "moderate" on immigration, so is Bush.) But this does kind of reduce Ybarra into the superdelegate version of that single-issue voter all political junkies really, really hate.

It also calls into question just what the hell these superdelegates are for. This guy apparently thinks it's his job to help define racial issues and create campaign policy which, last time I checked, sounds a lot like Barack Obama's job (and Clinton's, if she had a chance of winning and had not destroyed her standing with the largest racial minority group.) I was reading an interview with George McGovern today, and he said that he and his little team approved the idea of "automatic delegates" simply because younger delegates were getting selected for convention seats over the establishment guys, and he said, well, it would be okay if 20% of the total delegates were given to important people so that democracy doesn't go too crazy. Which is BS to begin with. But, the point is, they were given seats so that they could schmooze at the convention - not so that they could be courted by candidates and sway the whole election and sell their damned votes for 20 million dollars.

So the whole thing is basically crazy, and way out of control. If the rest of this insane - INSANE - process hasn't already convinced you that the superdels thing needs revisiting for future elections, perhaps this idiot has. (Now I'm even sleepier, and crankier. Thanks vote salesman.)