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In reply to the discussion: Inside Hillary Clintons Secret Takeover of the DNC (By DONNA BRAZILE November 02, 2017) [View all]Hortensis
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try to resuscitate her career by trashing our party -- in THESE times, when Democrats are the one big force battling to preserve our government of, by and for the people?
Both political parties have become very weak as power has become diffused, but I don't believe for a moment that our party would have collapsed under debt if Hillary hadn't stepped in and saved it. Honorably. As the only strong candidate, and as this indicates an extremely strong one, she was Obama's successor, and everyone knew it.
Everyone knew from the beginning that there was zero chance of any of the unprepared competitors, who had virtually no support from the thousands of Democratic power bases around the nation, winning. One did better than expected, but at least 15% of that vote was spoiler vote from conservatives who had smirked as they voted against our future candidate and had no intention of voting for any Democrat in November. Pew measured percentages of "genuine" supporters for that reason.
And Brazile is plain lying that her travels around the nation found anything different from the final result: That Hillary won by the nomination by a far larger margin than reported. Her official majority of nearly 4 million Democrats wasn't counted against just the opponent's genuine supporters but against the total vote for the opponent, including millions of conservative spoiler voters. Democrats chose Hillary as their candidate by far more than just a 4 million majority. And the other, who knew that as well as she and Pew, and exit pollers checking for the spoiler vote, then tried to take the nomination by fiat by asking superdelegates to set aside the Democratic membership's choice and appoint the loser the winner, but they all refused. Of course.
But it broke Brazile's heart.
NOW I"m wondering more than ever what the true story about Brazile's supposed passing of debate questions to Hillary was. I always questioned the whole thing because she was far too far ahead to risk her lead with this shabby nonsense and because I never believed Hill needed that information in the least. She could recite her position on the death penalty in her sleep, in 15-second, 2-minute, and 7-minute versions, or far longer if appropriate.
Why did Brazile do it?
Corruption? For sure, Ehrnst. And given the context of this election, Brazile should be investigated to make sure she wasn't conspiring in illegal and unethical activities to throw this election. The Russians are almost a minor note drawing attention away from the huge forces pulling the strings of the GOP.
She won't, not by the feds, anyway, but let's definitely watch to see who she aligns with and who pays her in future.