Brazile: 'Proof' that Clinton rigged nomination process broke my heart

[LisaM]

78. I don't know that whatever question Brazile fed to the campaign mattered....

the topics were set and Hillary was as well-prepared as anyone I've ever seen at a debate. I have no idea what purpose Brazile hoped to accomplish (and I also don't know that Hillary ever saw the question). That said, it was ridiculous that Brazile would do such a thing because among other things it was completely unnecessary.

I haven't read her book and I don't intend to. I don't like her. I find her remarkably ineffective as a spokesperson for the Democrats and have ever since 2000, when she would come on television post Bush v. Gore and basically say nothing. I never understood her influence, and she didn't seem particularly incisive, either.

Everyone knows that Hillary had two fundraising entities, one for her own campaign, and another that would raise money for her campaign and use it as a mechanism to send money back to the state parties (the Clooney fundraiser was for the second). However, her opponent didn't drop out until two weeks before the convention. She needed to use money I'm sure she would have loved to have allotted to downticket races for her own campaign much longer than she probably anticipated doing.

No idea what Donna Brazile's endgame is here, but I do not think that the primary was rigged for Hillary. The fact that she spent many years culling relationships and building allies in the party, who then preferred her as a candidate, does not constitute "rigging".