It may come as a surprise, but Hubert Humphrey was a pro-defense
Democrat in the Scoop Jackson mold, he was PRO LIFE (imagine
that!) and a friend of the 2nd Amendment. He was a good American.
Posted on 09/03/2015 7:59:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Vice President Walter Mondale endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president and predicted that the controversy surrounding her use of private e-mail would not affect her candidacy.
Mondale was asked why he is supporting Clinton and if he thinks the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s private server could prevent her from becoming the Democratic nominee.
“I don’t think that will affect her. I think she’s a very strong candidate. We just had our national DNC meeting in Minneapolis this past week. She spoke and made a really powerful impression – strong support all over the place. We’ve got a long time to go before our convention but I think she’s in a very good spot,” Mondale told PJ Media after the National Fair Housing Conference at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he endorsed Clinton before she announced her candidacy this year.
“In May of 2014 I spoke and encouraged her to run, so I’ve been doing all I can to encourage and be helpful and I think she’s going to be a fine president – and she’s going to do very well in Virginia and nationally,” Kaine said.
Mondale was recognized at the event for writing the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He described the challenges Democrats faced in the Senate while trying to pass the bill.
PJ Media asked Mondale for his opinion of the current legislative process and if he had any advice for the Democrats in Congress.
“We had two things going for us – bipartisanship and a strong, I would say, progressive Congress that wanted to do something even though the hill was high with 67 votes,” he said. “We needed cloture and as the issue built we were able to get it done. Regrettably, the bipartisanship has been shattered, a terrible loss – that’s why I mentioned in my speech it’s hard to know what happened there and it becomes much more difficult to pass things, but I don’t think we should give up.”
Mondale, who ran against former President Reagan in 1984, said he would like to see Congress act on the issue of “big money” in politics as well as voting rights.
“Big money is corrupting America, paralyzing us from doing what Lincoln said, have a government of and by and for the people, and efforts to obstruct the vitality of our Democracy such as the changes in the Voting Rights Act,” he said. “We need to open up voting to everybody – they need to be encouraged to vote. We need to get this curse of big money off our backs.”
Kaine said voting rights was not a partisan issue in the past.
“My father-in-law was a Republican governor of Virginia. The Republican Party had such a spectacular voting rights record up until the last 10 years – 15th Amendment to guarantee freed slaves the right to vote – that was a Republican Congress,” he said. “The 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote; now, that was a Democratic president but a Republican Congress. Both parties supported it. When the 26th amendment was passed that let 18-year-olds vote it was under the Nixon administration, it was bipartisan.”
Kaine said Democrats have not been able to get Republican support for changes to the Voting Rights Act.
“After the Supreme Court ruled in the Shelby case, getting rid of the pre-clearance requirement for essentially southern jurisdictions, and we have a fix that is a very reasonable fix to fix. We can’t get one Republican co-sponsor in the House or the Senate,” he said.
What does she have on Walter, hmmmm?
He’s still on this side of the grass? Good for him. But as usual, he’s wrong.
I’m thinking a Walter Mondale endorsement for the Democrat party ranks right up there with the “Curse of the Billygoat” for the Chicago Cubs, the “Honey Bears Curse” for the Chicago Bears, the “Pottsville Maroon Curse” for the Arizona Cardinals. or Bobby Lane’s curse on the Detroit Lions.
I mean an endorsement from Walter Mondale is like being put on the cover of Madden NFL Football. Come to think of it, maybe we should get Electronic Arts to put Hillary on the cover of Madden NFL 2017?
Just another lowlife scuzzy democrat... still kicking around being creepy.
Wow! If Hillary has Walter Mondale in her camp, I guess it’s going to be a landslide!
Wow...
This is the guy who lost in the greatest landslide in American history.
Hillary Clinton just needed Walter Mondale’s endorsement!
Considering he lost 525 EV to Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Walter is dean from the neck up and always has been. All DemoRats will support he Hildabeast!!
That would be the equivalent of paying for porn on the Internet.
The list of those who don’t already have Hillary’s (and Lois Lerner’s) emails is pretty short:
The Justice Department
Congress
The Media
The problem is not with getting them; anyone with a modicum of skills who knows where and how to look can find them. An offshore presence probably helps.
The problems are:
1. Getting them with a chain of custody or other provenance that meets the legal standards for admissibility as evidence,
2. Finding a prosecutor and court willing to take the case, and
3. Presenting a case whose foundation would involve significant technical complexities in a way that a judge could comprehend and 12 jurors would vote to convict.
Even if you secured a conviction, at least 51% of the voters would never believe it. After the release of the Venona Project data in 1995, they could not accept the truth regarding Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs.
This is the most amazing Mondale article of all time . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20050319183725/http://www.freep.com/news/metro/ager3_20021103.htm
Walter Mondull endorses Hillary? Well slap me in the face the a pork chop. What a surprise!
Me, too!!
That would do it.
“Says email scandal won’t hurt her”
It’s nearly sank the campaign of the most hated women in America as is. Won’t some Nurse please check if Mondale has been spitting out and hiding his Meds. Check his Depends while you are at it.
That’s because she’s a strong candidate. It washes away her sins.
Mondale is still alive? Who knew. But, still irrelevant
HH would be mortified by todays DNC
He would indeed, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson and other pro-America Democrats would either declare themselves Independent, or do a Phil Gramm and just switch parties, except for the fact that the GOPe-RINO Axis is just as disgusting and vulgar as the ‘RATs, which is why Trump continues to surge in the polls.
My point: That generation of the Democrat party showed the ability to "shoot themselves in the foot" as proven by Mondale being VP under Jimmy Carter's destructive presidency.
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