New details have emerged since Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) withdrew her bid from the 2020 Democratic presidential primary Wednesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245533
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245533
Cause, please meet Effect.
Good that it can happen to the self-appointed Elites…sometimes.
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Oh well.
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Good, now bring back Franken.
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Actions have consequences. Who knew?
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Ya Think?
Karma is a BITCH ain’t it?
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Self-scapegoating. That’s certainly a novel new concept/approach.
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Actually, Karma is a “Gillibrand.”
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And Gillibrand you can donate your left over campaign funds to Al’s next campaign
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Odd. So big-dollar donors don’t like people who throw our own people under the bus. Who would have thought that?
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I don’t think she was going to win the nomination regardless, but, yes, the Franken issue was insurmountable.
The problem that some progressives have -rightly or wrongly -is that political considerations may have been involved in her being one of the leaders in targeting Franken. He was also a potential 2020 presidential candidate at the time.
I believe the whole process from accusations leveled to his leaving office was poorly handled by everyone involved, including Franken himself. Probably many regrets all the way around.
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Well, that’s one explanation, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was true. The other explanation is that her entire campaign was predicated on #MeToo instead of what she was going to do for all Americans and that excited approximately 1% of the polled electorate.
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Imagine being on her staff. First she films the resignation video, then she tells the staff.
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Nah, she was just a weak candidate. She foiled herself.
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Eh, maybe it did. I think she lost a lot of donors over her role in this. But really, what did she offer that the other candidates didn’t? How did she differentiate herself? What did she do that would have made her more acceptable?
With so many candidates in the mix, getting recognition was difficult. Her role, however small it might’ve been in the Franken debacle, didn’t help her case.
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Unlike the Clinton staffer quoted here, I think Gillibrand was fairly blamed for Franken and her comeuppance was well deserved. It’s not often I get a rush of schadenfreude for a reasonably liberal Democrat, but I do here. (Fair disclosure: though I an happy to support Warren, I almost certainly would be supporting Franken if he were running.) Of course Gillibrand’s left turn after leaving a conservative CD for the Senate (though not entirely unreasonable politically), and even more so her hit job on Franken, always seemed far more nakedly calculating than heartfelt. Plus, it seems increasing clear that Gillibrand, whether naively or not, furthered a planned right wing hit job on Franken which certainly says nothing good about her judgment.
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Roger Stone set Al up and Gillibrand fell for it. That lapse in judgement deservedly killed her candidacy.
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Unfairly pinning the resignation on her?! She went out of her way to take Franken down and now refuses to accept the credit for what she did because it backfired so spectacularly. Good riddance! With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?
All we had to do was wait for an official investigation to determine how bogus the accusations were until Gillibrand formed a circle around Franken and opened fire.
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Sen. Gillibrand had no chance of getting the nomination. Probably she was hoping to be a viable VP choice. This Al. Franken stuff I think is a reach. But I guess it’s a good excuse for her campaign other than the fact that no one cared.
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OT… but I felt important…
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