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Democrats’ demons: reason to fear convention chaos
NY Post ^ | 19 May, 2016 | Seth Lipsky

Posted on 05/22/2016 1:36:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber

The Democratic warhorse Dianne Feinstein is warning that Bernie Sanders’ campaign against Hillary Clinton could turn the party’s convention in Philadelphia into the kind of disaster that erupted in Chicago in 1968.

“It worries me a great deal,” she tells CNN.

I can understand why. I was there. Covering the Democrats’ 1968 convention for one of America’s greatest newspapers, the Anniston (Ala.) Star, I saw a bitterly divided party, riven by the Vietnam War and Jim Crow, met with violence in the streets.

The convention finally handed up, in Vice President Hubert Humphrey, one of the finest liberals in history. The Democrats failed to heal their rifts, though, and lost to Richard Nixon. The party would never be the same.

There are no perfect parallels between the Democratic Party today and the one that came a cropper in 1968. But the mob mentality of some of Sen. Sanders’ thugs, on display in Nevada, must make Feinstein wonder.

Like Clinton, Humphrey was an establishment figure challenged by a radical left-winger. Back then it was Sen. Eugene McCarthy, an opponent of the Vietnam War, and a small army of nihilists.

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To: Chode

Yep,body armour and knee protectors too.Maybe the sap gloves for an emergency.


21 posted on 05/22/2016 3:07:32 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

New York ComPost shill Seth Lipsky:
But the mob mentality of some of Sen. Sanders' thugs, on display in Nevada, must make Feinstein wonder. Like Clinton, Humphrey was an establishment figure challenged by a radical left-winger. Back then it was Sen. Eugene McCarthy, an opponent of the Vietnam War, and a small army of nihilists.
Clean Gene was so radical, so left-wing, that in 1980 he publically endorsed Ronald Reagan, saying, better a competent conservative than an incompetent liberal. Now you can understand why a New York ComPost party-line shill badmouths Eugene McCarthy.

Partisan Media Shills Alert!


22 posted on 05/22/2016 5:20:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: samtheman

The scholastic news magazines I read in grade school never made mention of “small armies of nihilists.”


23 posted on 05/22/2016 5:24:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (1,161); Cruz (567); Rubio (166); Kasich (160)
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To: SamAdams76

Exceptions in word choice underscore the intended audience is adult. But the style is what I said, in my opinion.


24 posted on 05/22/2016 5:26:13 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Tallguy

Hubert Humphrey lost when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.

HHH was Lyndon Johnson’s unrequited second term promising more of the same & the Vietnam War. Nixon promised to draw down troop levels in Vietnam, and he did.


25 posted on 05/22/2016 6:17:18 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: MtnClimber

I live in the Philly media market and I am going to enjoy the daily reports of convention chaos.


26 posted on 05/22/2016 6:52:20 PM PDT by Trumpnado2016 (Trump/Pirro 2016)
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To: Trumpnado2016

I would have a shotgun in case it spilled into my front yard.


27 posted on 05/22/2016 6:56:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Snopes: Media Accounts of Sandernista Chair Throwing at Nevada Convention ‘False’
NewsBusters | May 22, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 05/22/2016 6:31:01 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3433020/posts


28 posted on 05/22/2016 8:20:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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Democratic Debacle (1964 convention, repercussions today)
On Saturday they would appear before the convention’s Credentials Committee and ask to be seated as the official Mississippi state delegation... Shortly after he signed the Civil Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson told his aide Joseph Califano, "I think we’ve delivered the South to the Republican party for your lifetime and mine." Maybe so, but he was determined to hold onto the region long enough to ensure his own re-election; the opinion polls might show him leading the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater, by an enormous margin, but he was desperate not to stoke the fires of sectional conflict. Only one thing stood in the way of party harmony: the Mississippi Freedom Democrats. If the national convention agreed to seat the MFDP instead of the Mississippi regulars... all hell would break loose among the other Southern state delegations... What precise words Johnson and Humphrey exchanged in late August may never be known, but by the time the MFDP began presenting its case to the Credentials Committee on Saturday, August 22, it was clear that Johnson had dangled the Vice Presidency before his friend from Minnesota. However, the prize carried a steep price. Humphrey would have to cash in on his liberal credentials to stop the convention from seating the MFDP.

29 posted on 05/22/2016 8:24:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: elcid1970

I was old enough to remember that election. I remember the popular vote between Humphrey & Nixon was close. People forget George Wallace ran 3rd party — had that not happened...


30 posted on 05/23/2016 2:24:33 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

You’re correct. Fives states - Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia - went for Wallace. He got about 9.9 million votes. Likely, most of those would have gone to Nixon had Wallace not run.


31 posted on 05/23/2016 2:30:06 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: abb

The problem with counter-factuals like “what if Wallace hadn’t run” is you just don’t know. Yeah, purely on the face of it, his numbers probably would have gone to Nixon. But the dynamic of the campaign might have played out differently, and then who knows?

It’s like the Ross Perot candidacy. Clinton-people say that had Perot not run, his votes would have gone to Clinton. Really?


32 posted on 05/23/2016 3:03:38 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: MtnClimber

Back in ‘68, the radicals were in the process of taking over the Party. The Democratic Party suffered the same fate we have been suffering from “its own” as they started employing the Alinsky method of enslaving a nation in earnest.


33 posted on 05/23/2016 3:03:46 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MtnClimber

“The mob mentality of Sanders’ thugs”???? TOO FUNNY!


34 posted on 05/23/2016 5:53:19 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber

The Dem elite stoke the race/sex hate and irrational rage and then it turns on them. Doesn’t this always happen with Marxists?


35 posted on 05/23/2016 10:52:37 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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