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Thank goodness Donna Brazile's crackpot scheme never came to pass
The Baltimore Sun ^ | November 10, 2017 | Jules Witcover

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 ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: biden; brazile; brazilebook; brazilemotive; democrats; hillary
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To: Nifster
Ahhh the dems are butt hurt

Yeah; you could say that. Red swollen hurt.

:D

21 posted on 11/12/2017 4:28:50 PM PST by Boomer (TisOK2BWhite)
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To: sparklite2

> 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?


22 posted on 11/12/2017 5:11:53 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Even better.


23 posted on 11/12/2017 5:16:06 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: grania

Don’t say that to often on Free Republic nowadays - she’s The greatest thing since sliced white bread and pure as the driven snow. She’s a freekin liar, always was and always will be. If she had anything damaging on Clinton, she’d be dead by now


24 posted on 11/12/2017 5:16:13 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Boomer

Awesome butt hurt photo, Boomer!! :0)


25 posted on 11/12/2017 5:20:31 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."a)
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To: grania

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!”


26 posted on 11/12/2017 5:24:52 PM PST by Dante3
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To: ClearCase_guy

“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


27 posted on 11/12/2017 6:21:03 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's over for the NFL. They have stage 5 Colin brain cancer, and it's terminal.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ...

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28 posted on 11/12/2017 7:02:40 PM PST by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: atc23

She’s a freekin liar, always was and always will be. If she had anything damaging on Clinton, she’d be dead by now


True, that.


29 posted on 11/12/2017 7:13:23 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: grania
When a caller asked didn't ALL countries, especially the US, interfere in other country's elections, her response was that we only care about them interfering in ours.

A rare, simply true statement from A Democrat.

30 posted on 11/12/2017 7:16:34 PM PST by Drew68
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