Posted on 07/20/2024 8:03:23 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Dems return to Tammany Hall tactics with backroom dealings to boot Biden
Smoke-filled Rooms? Should Biden opt to step aside, it is far from certain that Vice President Kamala Harris would be the automatic stand-in on the party ticket.
As Democratic powerbrokers attempt to pressure President Joe Biden into bowing out of reelection, his departure could set up a messy selection process for his replacement that circumvents the primary electorate and threatens to send the party back to the days of Tammany Hall.
Biden, 81, has faced calls to step aside as the party nominee in the wake of his disastrous performance in a CNN presidential debate against former President Donald Trump. During that event, Biden often appeared lost on stage and stumbled over both stairs and his answers, which reignited longstanding concerns over his age, mental acuity, and fitness for office.
Should Biden opt to step aside, it is far from certain that Vice President Kamala Harris would be the automatic stand-in on the party ticket. The imminent approach of the party convention, moreover, could lead to last-minute jockeying for the top slot.
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Democratic Party politics were dominated by Tammany Hall, a New York City-based executive committee that maintained political control through mafia-like tactics and behind-the-scenes power broking.
A potentially brokered convention post-primary with little voter influence could see the party return to such machine politics, an ironic development in light of the party’s repeated insistence that former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, represents a “threat to Democracy.”
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When Democrats are losing they ditch their high-falutin’ rhetoric and show their true colors.
Fun to watch.......they think nobody’s looking.
I doubt the teacher’s union even teaches about Tammany Hall anymore.
For those back in Nixon days was the outcry for his resignation this furious or done more behind the scenes?
Irony doesn’t win elections.
Back to Tammany Hall? They NEVER left— never. One brief moment when Fiorello LaGuardia broke Tammany’s back.
Nation wide DC run insiders in Tammany, extended by the increase in muslim embeds put there by obamaumao the First, and all his Marxist minions.
Is she this stupid or does GOP have standing in the DNC process?
When has the pretense of “honest” pluralism not been a Democrat facade?
“Is she this stupid or does GOP have standing in the DNC process?”
There are 4 or 5 States that have laws about replacing candidates stating only death or 25th Amendment permits it. The GOP would certainly have standing.
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And, from what I’ve read here on FR, Kamalalala is the only one that has access to DNC’s campaign cash. So now they have a new campaign slogan:
“Go WOKE, go BROKE”
Their new campaign slogan: “Go WOKE, go BROKE.”
Oh, I dunno. That’s not as good as the Secret Service’s new slogan:” See something. Say nothing.”
Ah copy. I didn’t think far enough along for the real world ramifications.
Muh Our Democracy. Projection of the highest. I hope Biden stays in and takes the house of Democrat cards down.
I hope Biden stays in and takes the house of Democrat cards down.
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I can’t help recalling Obama’s comment “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up” (August 2020). Well, he has certainly f’d up the country the last 3.5 years and I hope this applies to the Democrats (aka Dementiacrats, DemonRats) as well & in a big way.
Remember that you cannot “replace” that which does not yet exist.
Once the Democratic National Convention delegates vote for a candidate then there is someone who can be “replaced”.
PREXIT needs to stop.
I think about Trump supporters’ reaction if this were happening. Yes, you chose Trump, but the polling is bad so the donors want him out with 4 months to go. Former Speaker tells Trump to withdraw. We know Democrats will vote for whoever is nominee, as Republicans would, but it's so opposite democracy to cast voters’ wishes aside and not give a damn the consequences. Chicago may burn.
The demonRATs were plotting the end of the Republic, before we had one.
DemonRATs are EVIL, corrupt and only care about power.
It is almost impossible to consider today's demonRATs as ignorant as compared to EVIL.
Most Americans have no clue about the history tammany hall and that it that includes every FNC talking head, every politician in dc and 98% of the walking stiffs that might vote.
For all my FRiends, please look up the history {and today's impact} of Tammany Hall and all that it means today.
Democrats have not met Biden’s expected payoff to drop out.
No. She;s stupid.
I’ve had dogs and cats who were smarter than AOC.
The Society of St. Tammney was founded in 1786.
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