So what Is Clinton promising Republican donors? While I’m ecstatic watching the Trump implosion, I’m less happy about our party moving right. Triangulation landed us most of the shittiest elements of Clinton I – welfare reform, don’t ask don’t tell, crime bill
Republican donors and leaders who support Hillary over their own party’s nominee? I don’t think we can overestimate how big a deal this is.
People like Meg Whitman breaking ranks, and doing so out of sanity, not spite, means that no matter who controls Congress, bipartisanship and compromise are going to be possible - not probable, but possible - once again. This should have been possible under Obama. The GOP tried to make opposition to Obama and complete obstruction of any of his proposals a test of party loyalty and a condition of serving in Congress, and what they ended up with is Trump as their nominee.
Hillary doesn’t need to make any deals with the devil here. There is common ground, even if it’s as basic as not wanting nuclear war. Aside from it being her job as Senator and SOS, you can go back to her failure to get health care reform in the early 90s. Obviously that was a huge setback, and yes she was a big part of why that didn’t happen. But, she learned, thank god, and instead of walking away she went back into the fray and worked her butt off to get SCHIP passed, and that after a failure and delay too. And after that she got to work again to get more kids covered even in those reluctant red states.
I don’t mean to sound like a campaign ad here, but it was more important to get health coverage for poor kids than to appear pure and above the fray. The First Lady could have sat in the White House and hosted teas, but that’s not what she did. She went out and worked with the people who had the power to make this thing happen, and they weren’t all liberal Democrats - and relying on liberal Democrats only would just have made sure that nothing happened for this vulnerable population.
When Meg Whitman, of all people, is supporting Hillary, she’s saying enough is enough - both with Trump and with the intransigent GOP purity police. In a big way.
Isn’t that what this country needs to hear?
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Not possible.
All your base are belong to us.
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That she is going to support Hillary doesn’t surprise me as much as that she will admit it. That is YUGGGGGEEEE.
So Trump sits down with Susan and offers her… a vision of his secret socialist agenda? …a promise to use his arbitrary autocratic nature to inspire a liberal revolution? Not seeing it.
Glad I wasn’t drinking water when I read your comment. Well done.
One step at a time. Conservatives have publicly hated on Hillary Clinton for 30 or more years, expecting them to hand over money AND publicly say so is a lot for these people. The Democratic party is a big tent, Hillary can make it bigger, that’s how you shift the country leftward (assuming those of us already on the left keep up our end of the bargain by voting and participating non-stop).
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While she did lose to Jerry Brown, she was in a position to do so because, she won the contest to become the GOP nominee. So she is not completely influenceless
The HRC campaign’s strategy is getting really clear now. This endorsement has apparently been in the works for awhile – foretelling the themes of the convention and the selection of Tim Kaine over Warren. HRC lost my Sander’s supporting husband’s vote to Stein, but she’s picking up the moderates and disaffected republicans we need to build an effect governing coalition. I consider myself a liberal democrat, but i am a realist. We have to find our way to some reasonable consensus.
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there obviously are republicans out there who are good, decent people who will put country before party. thanks to people like meg whitman for standing up and being counted!
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If Hillary can make the Republicans accept liberal policies it will be a huge benefit to the country.
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Yeah, what I suggested was pretty ridiculous…almost comically so.
Sarandon floated the idea of Trump being better in the long run because he’d spark a revolution. Now, I think she was just being a glib, privileged brat, and considering the biggest celeb Trump can get a hold of appears to be Scott Baio, I’m not worried about him courting her.
Do you seriously think a dissatisfied “Democrat” whose solution to their dissatisfaction was to turn to Donald Trump can hear anything that has any basis in reality that will change their mind?
Sure, maybe, but seriousness was not my intent here.
I guess I misunderstood you, then. Sorry.
Buy him a book with that old story (I forgot the title) about the whole country of women who withheld their favors to prevent a war. Just tell him you found it “interesting”.
Lysistrata, an Ancient Greek comedy about ending the Peloponnesian War. There were hundreds of performances of it in the lead-up to Iraq.
dtmfa