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Can Democrats Fix the Party?
Rolling Stone ^ | 6/12/17 | Tim Dickinson

Posted on 06/13/2017 3:29:38 PM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

The hobbled DNC's chief remaining value was as a fundraising vehicle. For Obama, it "was like his ATM – and Clinton was the same," says the former chair. Clinton pioneered a strategy that allowed her largest donors to give $10,000 to each of 32 state parties participating in her Victory Fund. But that money didn't stay in the states. Instead, nearly every penny was hoovered up to the DNC for the benefit of Clinton's election.

Clinton today says she found the DNC to be a liability. In an onstage interview at a Recode tech conference in May, Clinton recalled, "I get the nomination. . . . I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party. It was bankrupt. . . . I had to inject money into it – the DNC – to keep it going." Clinton then raised eyebrows by indicting the DNC's data, which the party had inherited from the Obama re-election campaign. "Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong," Clinton said. (The DNC's former data chief hit back, tweeting that Clinton's broadside was "f------ bull----," but declined to be interviewed.)

(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018; commies; democrats; party
"We allowed Donald Trump to hijack the basic narrative of the Democratic Party," he says, "which is that we've always fought for the underdog – to make sure that they have a good job, that pays a middle-class wage, that provides health care and housing and retirement security for their family."

The RATS are sticking with the freeloaders. I wish them all the best...

1 posted on 06/13/2017 3:29:38 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Watching a rerun originally shown back in the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and even Gorbachev.


2 posted on 06/13/2017 3:31:46 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Libloather

I vaguely recall a good bit of advice against building a castle on sand...


3 posted on 06/13/2017 3:36:32 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: Libloather

>>which is that we’ve always fought for the underdog<<

Code for the lazy whose votes are easily and cheaply bought.


4 posted on 06/13/2017 3:42:07 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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To: Libloather

Bernie has the solution to “fix” the democrat party. Form a new People’s Party.

Forward Comrades!


5 posted on 06/13/2017 3:46:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Libloather
Can Democrats Fix the Party?

No.
As long as their "Fix" is pulling the party even further Left, it will only get worse.

6 posted on 06/13/2017 3:46:02 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Libloather

The ONLY thing that will fix the Democrat Party is a loud, proud, hard, in your face left turn. Anything else is tinkering at the margins. They need to fully embrace their Karl Marx and repudiate the bourgeois entirely.


7 posted on 06/13/2017 3:47:24 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Libloather

not as long as they are chasing imaginary russian hackers.


8 posted on 06/13/2017 3:49:11 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Libloather

Ah one word , “Jonestown”


9 posted on 06/13/2017 3:50:10 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

I think Bernie needs to start a 3rd party.


10 posted on 06/13/2017 3:59:20 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Libloather

The Democrat party, like the Republican party, has moved so far Left that it cannot be reformed from within.

The current Democrat leadership is about as out of touch with flyover country as the Republican leadership is. But they hold the power and are not going to give it up.

Conservatives of both parties need to realize they are actually without much influence in their respective parties.


11 posted on 06/13/2017 4:05:43 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Libloather

Fix it? They are EXACTLY what the people who vote for them want.


12 posted on 06/13/2017 4:28:25 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Libloather

“Clinton recalled”

Miracles happen all the time. She finally recalled something.

rwood


13 posted on 06/13/2017 5:29:02 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Libloather

Ron White: “You can’t fix stupid.”


14 posted on 06/13/2017 5:32:22 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: BitWielder1

The democRAT party is beyond repair. It is the party of slavery, segregation, sodomy, and sedition.

But, on the other hand....let them follow Bernie into oblivion.


15 posted on 06/13/2017 5:40:08 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Libloather

I’d give better odds on someone aiming to fix a target practice watermelon.


16 posted on 06/13/2017 7:09:53 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: TomGuy
Conservatives of both parties...

Come again..?

17 posted on 06/13/2017 8:38:02 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

They used to be called Reagan Democrats, etc.


18 posted on 06/13/2017 9:04:19 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Libloather

Yes the Democrat party can be fixed, but then it would not be the Democrat party as we know and destest it today. They would have to divest themselves of the Hollywood elite ,the lazy parasites abusing welfare, baby killing, perverts, faux socialists/communists, race baiters, fraudulent voting, and corrupt politicians. If that was to happen I am afraid there would not be anyone left in the party.


19 posted on 06/14/2017 4:07:31 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: kosciusko51

It’s already “fixed”.

Fixed like the cat.


20 posted on 06/14/2017 8:51:54 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (If you choose not to deal with reality, reality will deal with you - and not on your terms)
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