Is Donna Brazile writing a thesis?
The thing that’s funny about this, though, is one has to wonder if HRC “bought” something that was easily hers anyway. DW-S was a Hillary toady from way back, so right from the start she’s got the DNC chair in her pocket. Most of the other bigwigs were falling over themselves to throw their support behind Her Inevitableness, too, so what was it exactly that needed buying on her part?
I think this is a good first step for the Democratic Party. Admitting they have a Clinton problem.
Who cares? That’s not why she won. She was the strongest of the three candidates in the primaries.
Don’t forget the money laundering that Hilliary had going on.
And all the murderin’.
and pizza shop child molestation ring
Bernie never had a chance, but not because of some nefarious goings on, but because most Democratic primary voters supported Clinton. Unlike the 2018 General election, where , the Democratic primary wasn’t a nail biter where the margin of victory was a sliver of the electorate that could be over turned by Comey’s October surprise and or Russian Interference. Clinton’s victory of Bernie was substantial. That more Democrats favored an actual Democrat to represent them than an outsider should not be surprising.
What I find more infuriating is this quote (bolding mine)
Who knows how much closer the Democrats would have been to retaking Congress and some state legislatures if they had had that money?
She was assumed to be the strongest of the three candidates who were allowed by the DNC (owned and operated by whom?) to run in the DNC primaries.
p.s. As far as I’m concerned, the DNC owed (unofficially, of course) Hillary their party’s nomination way back in 2008 when she got her ass kicked by Obama.
Allowed? I could have run in the primaries if I wanted to. Again, I think you’re vastly exaggerating the power of the DNC.
She was assumed to be the strongest, and that assumption turned out to be correct. She was third on my list, but she got the most votes. That happens.
Or, she’s an opportunist who has decided the Clintons are of no use to her anymore, so she is throwing them under the bus and positioning herself to glom onto the next big thing.
The ‘Nobody but Hillary’ crowd will look at this as just regular old politics, which it is. But it wasn’t done above board and it smells bad. It was a way to rig the DNC, done through political favors and backroom deals. It looks like rigging to anyone who wants to know why such the Dems nominated such a terrible candidate, but it only reveals part of the problem with the party, there was no one else in a good position to win at the national level anyway.
Let us hope this is the end of the Clintons, but we also have to hope for changes in the Democratic party and new candidates to emerge.
Yeah, I can’t believe that this sudden rift between them is cause by Brazile being shocked, SHOCKED after learning that the Clintons were power-hungry politicians willing to buy influence in the party. Something else happened between them, and this “tell-all” is just a by-product.
So Sanders was an outsider, and Hillary’s fundraising for the party made the party favor her. THIS IS SHOCKING NEWS!
According to Faux News, this is the MOST. IMPORTANT. STORY. of the day. Because Hillary is president, I guess.
And it seems that this story totally, totally proves that Trump is the best, and that there was no collusion with the Russians by his entire campaign staff.
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You can run as far as you want to on your own time and money. If you expect to be successful, you’ll need the DNC ground game and financial support. Something which Donna Brazile is suggesting wasn’t available to just any Tom, Dick, or Hairy.
It is over, folks. The bad blood don’t matter no more!! 45 is in office, let’s spend time trying to fix this debauchery.
Yeah. I liked Bernie a lot but there was never any reason to expect that the DNC - the Democratic National Committee - would prefer him over the lifelong Democrat who had been working with and financially supporting the group for decades. If Bernie wants the support of the Democratic National Committee, then he needs to commit to the Democractic Party.
I think it was unrealistic of him and his supporters to expect the DNC to throw their weight behind him in a battle with an actual Democrat. I think that would have been true even if the Democrat wasn’t a Clinton. I don’t even see what the controversy is here.
As for Donna Brazile’s book - oh, go away all of you. Halloween’s over.
I was a Bernie supporter, but I generally had no problem with the DNC putting their finger on the scale in favor of Hillary. That’s what parties are supposed to do. The primaries are like Dancing with the Stars. Your points are a combination of the audience’s votes and the judges’ scores. It’s not supposed to be a pure democracy, since the goal of the party is to win in November. I get that, and as long as everyone knows the rules going in, I’m OK with it.
This revelation, if true, just tells me more of why I don’t like Hillary, but it’s kinda ancient history at this point, and the sooner we all forget about the Clintons, the better. Let’s just hope she doesn’t run in 2020. And as much as I like Bernie, I hope he doesn’t run either. We need some new, younger candidates.
Likely so, but people have a tendency to want to back the winner. When one of the candidates has a massive delegate advantage even early on in the form of pledged super delegates, it probably influences some people to vote for them simply because they want to be on the side of the winner.