An interesting Fox News story follows. I am sure that it is being reported by other, more-palatable-to-Democratic-loyalists media, but a couple of things stand out here.
DNC votes to require Dem 2020 primary candidates be registered party members
The Democratic National Committee voted Friday to change its rules and bar anyone from running for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination without being a Democrat at the time of announcing one’s candidacy.
In 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) ran an unexpectedly competitive primary campaign against Hillary Clinton despite being an independent, and the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee appears to have this in mind with the new rule, Yahoo News reports. Sanders’ supporters are interpreting the move as a sign of spite.
“We just came off a devastating presidential loss in 2016. It would seem to me the actual impetus would be to expand the Democratic party. I just for the life of me don’t see any motivation for this beyond personal spite,” said Mark Longabaugh, who was a senior adviser to Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
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The rule may not affect Sanders himself if he does decide to run in 2020, however. He has typically chosen to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination in Vermont Senate races to fend off Democratic opponents and then has declined the Democratic nomination, running in the general election as an independent. The Vermont Democratic Party has supported this strategy and ruled he enjoys the “rights and privileges” of a party member.
If this DNC move does nothing whatsoever to eliminate Bernie Sanders from possible contention in 2020…which would be true even if his Vermont status didn’t hold up because all he would need to do is register as a Democrat…the word “spite” doesn’t quite cover it. “Stupid spite” might come close, as would “Chopping off your nose to spite your face.”
The only possible non-“stupid” interpretation of this move…and it would only not be stupid if one did not consider neocentrism itself to be stupid (lambs following the globalist corporate Judas Goat to the slaughterhouse)…would be if it was meant as a sign to possible anti-Sanders voters (read “disenchanted Trump voters,” mostly) that they would be safe within the welcoming arms of the ever-less-leftiness-like DemocRatic Party.
Nice.
Orwell…2020 instead of 1984.
Left is right.
Right is left.
Feel safe in the vast, welcoming center.
Be proud, loyal DNC-ers.
You are pioneers in the brave new world of stick figure politics.
If there are only two dimensions, it is so much easier to belong!!! You can just slide right in. No depth to worry about…it’s easy. Why…even deplorablist Trump voters can do it!!! Unlike that crazy Sanders fella…you know, that socialist who wants to Communize the country? We’re for you !!!
Dumb as a stick.
Dumb as a stick-figure!!!
Wake the fuck up.
You been had.
The abbreviation “DNC?”
It stands for “Does Not Count.”
Does not count well, anyway, on the plentiful evidence of its ongoing failures to:
1-Win more years in the presidency over the past 70 years or so than have the RatPublicans (And I am even including the truly deplorable, totally reprehensible LBJ in that count, who I am completely convinced ascended to the presidency by complicity in the murder of JFK. (Or at the very least, the coverup of that murder .)
2-Gain control of the the House and/or the Senate more than have the RatPublicans over the past 30+ years.
and
3-Produce an even temporarily centrist Supreme Court.
Nice.
DNC!!!
DNC!!!
DNC!!!
Nice.
WTFU.
AG
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