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[zipplewrath]

75. So you would have had something to do with Crist?

You really think that someone like you is the reason that Crist was the DEMOCRATIC nominee?
You think he went around working local democratic committees looking for support for the DEMOCRATIC nomination? You think Hilary did? You do realize that the KOCK brothers for good god's sake were some of the Clinton's and the DLC's earliest supporters. You think the Kock brothers gave one hoot about what some local democratic organizer thought/wanted/did?

And do you know who was one of Obama's earliest organized supporters? The friggin' teachers union. Ain't that a hoot? You think when he appointed Duncan he was thinking "well, I've worked with the teachers union all these years and they helped me get here..."

We had a primary here for governor and the democratic party wouldn't even ACKNOWLEDGE that Crist had an opponent.

Save me your "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" crap. As soon as they get to the point of even being CONSIDERED for national positions, they get dragged into the rooms by the power brokers and told how the system works and they either work with it, or lose. And to a great extent, a very great extent, it's true. Warren is currently fighting against it, and we'll see how soon she gets a committee position, or a cabinet post. And we'll see if she has to fall in line to do it.

George W wasn't president because of all of his hard work with the local GOP committees. Neither was his father. Clinton's legacy was built by the DLC and Koch brothers. Yes, I'm sure at an early stage he worked the local parties and built a constituency among them, but at some point they were yesterday's news and it was his national connections, not local, that move him on.

You have to go back to Carter to get to anyone that arrive in Washington, and survived on the national stage that never "drank the juice". And they took him down.