Because I keep seeing stupid statements like these coming from her supporters:
“Superdelegates are not second-class delegates,” says Joel Ferguson, who will be a superdelegate if Michigan is seated. “The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic.”
This gentleman is the co-chairman of her campaign in Michigan. Maybe he’s gone off message, but I’ve heard similar statements from Mark Penn, Clinton’s Chief strategist (red state delegates are “insignificant”). Bill Clinton recently scolded Obama supporters in Wisconsin for being “too enthusiastic”. Even the candidate herself has claimed caucuses “disenfranchise voters” and are “undemocratic.” This despite the fact that she herself has won caucuses.
I have to wonder if this sort of scorched earth policy is coming from the candidate or from her covey of advisers. Either way, it speaks poorly for her. Tearing down Democratic voters because they don’t live in the states which you won? That’s not only divisive and insulting, it’s just plain stupid.
Senator Clinton might make a great President if elected. No one can say with certainty that she won’t. But what you can say is that she is running the worst possible campaign now for Democratic victories in the Fall, not only with respect to the Presidential race, but also regarding races for Congressional seats. Insulting and disregarding so-called “red states” seems guaranteed to lose states that Democrats have a chance to win this year thanks to 8 years of Republican corruption, lies and mismanagement. One gets the idea that she and her supporters are re-fighting the electoral wars of the 1990’s. Someone should tell them times have changed before it’s too late.
That’s the most intelligent answer I can come up with. These recent statements are very worrying. Since the Clinton’s have decided that black voters and activists are not representative of the electorate, along with young people and inhabitants of so-called red states, just who is this team trying to cater to? The worst part is that the media is now saying that Clinton’s base are traditional Democratic voters:
I’ll just repeat what I wrote last week:
I feel like the queen ant in A Bug’s Life when she tells Flick:
I thought I felt that way with Lieberman. It’s much worse with the Clinton’s. In a presidential campaign that should be cakewalk for Democrats they are willing to alienate, what?, about 70% of the Democratic base, to make a point. Just because they didn’t plan on having to go beyond Super Tuesday, the rest of the party has to suffer these misguided tantrums and insipid school yard attacks. Yes, please can they be president again? Clearly, we haven’t had enough of that the past 8 years.
I thought I felt that way with Lieberman. It’s much worse with the Clinton’s.
And Lord knows THAT takes some doing. I just SMH.
“C’mon, vote for me! I’ll do that dance!”
There was a good diary re this on Orange over the weekend, from a former Clinton supporter, who was tired of being told by the Clinton campaign why he ‘must’ be an Obama supporter. After all, he was a democratic party activist, etc. So he finally decided they ‘must’ be right, and switched. 😉
There’s no “naivete” on his part; only incompetence on theirs.
And laziness. And colossal stupidity.
Who gives a goddamn that she can win New York? And? (Of course, given the funny business that was discovered there, that may not even be true.) We need someone who can win some “red” and “purple” states. But her stupid campaign dismisses this, always–AGAIN, doing the same thing we’ve always done, and expecting a different result.
Let’s just state this again:If you never organize in a red state, it will always BE a red state. This is not rocket science.
But they are too lazy, incompetent and dare I say–chicken shit–to go and do the work required to build and strengthen state Dem party organizations necessary to be competitive.
Actually, it’s not that hard. People are starving for attention. Give them the tools, some resources and a little bit of attention and then get the hell out the way. Did folks read about pleasantly surprised fellow Dems in Idaho and Nebraska were–to see each other??? To know that other Democrats existed? Dammit, you have to start somewhere! They WANT to be included. And stupid ass Billary just dismisses them.
These stupid morons think they are soooo smart. Well stop the madness–they are not. In fact, I’m tempted to ask them if it hurts to be so stupid.
STUPID!!!!
Either way, I suppose we wouldn’t want to cut into the likes of the Lanny Davis’ blabbermouth time on teevee–it would interfere with his 90s nostalgia.
/rant.
Even more than that, they don’t want it to change. We see the same thing regularly in the tech industry. Clinton’s campaign staff understand the current political breakdown. They know how to make money off it. They don’t want a realignment, because it means that they have to re-learn the rules of the game and start from square one.
Exactly. That’s one of the reasons I don’t want these fools anywhere near the party. I am just so tired of them running every good thing in the ground.
Not that’s intentional, of course.
/snark.
Ever since the HRC preordainment train lost its wheels, the whole village is freaking out. For example Taylor Marsh’s blog has become totally unhinged.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/
I think the HRC really believed that the whole thing would be wrapped up by Super Tuesday. Now that Barak fought them to a draw, they have no backup plan and they don’t know how to play catch up.
That girl has drowned in the Kool-Aid. The only good thing coming out of the last few months is that people can see just how useless someone like Michelle Malking Taylor Marshe is.
I showed my husband and some friends some of Marsh’s posts and they thought it was from FR or LGF. That’s how crazy that blog is.
who is in charge? people who are experienced ready to lead from day one. You wouldn’t know it though from reading these ridiculous attacks on silly straw men are indicative of a campaign in trouble.
This cakes the prize for lack of competence
Very disappointing.
To do list for today: