Posted on 11/12/2017 2:31:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You may think politics in Washington is beyond the pale now. But imagine if Donna Brazile, the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, had followed through on her notion of removing Hillary Clinton as the party's presidential nominee in 2016 and replacing her with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Ms. Brazile, in a newly published memoir, describes Ms. Clinton's brief fainting spell and reported case of pneumonia during the campaign as grounds to depose her as the party nominee. The author writes that the DNC charter empowered her, in the event a nominee became disabled, to initiate a complicated removal process.
Even if Ms. Brazile had had the power to do so -- which is highly questionable -- greater chaos and bitterness would surely have resulted.
For starters, millions of voters yearning to put a woman in the Oval Office for the first time would have been outraged.
Secondly, the idea that a solitary party official, no matter how highly regarded, could substitute her judgment for the will of the electorate would have set Democrats aflame whether or not they had voted for Ms. Clinton in the primaries....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Yeah; you could say that. Red swollen hurt.
:D
> I wonder if those same millions would
have voted for Elizabeth Dole. I sorta doubt it. <
My standard question to liberal acquaintances who tell me that Hillary lost because of gender bias: Would you have voted for Sarah Palin?
Even better.
Dont say that to often on Free Republic nowadays - shes The greatest thing since sliced white bread and pure as the driven snow. Shes a freekin liar, always was and always will be. If she had anything damaging on Clinton, shed be dead by now
Awesome butt hurt photo, Boomer!! :0)
I thought she was terrible on Tucker Carlson’s show. In the segments I saw, whenever Tucker asked her a question she didn’t want to answer, she would snap, “Don’t put words in my mouth!”
“I had no idea Jules Witcover was still alive. The guy is 90 years old. And appears to have learned nothing.”
Jules Joseph Witcover is an American journalist, author, and columnist. Wikipedia
Born: July 16, 1927 (age 90), Union City, NJ
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Shes a freekin liar, always was and always will be. If she had anything damaging on Clinton, shed be dead by now
True, that.
A rare, simply true statement from A Democrat.
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