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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 08:25 AM Mar 2014

'Ready For Hillary' Is Ready To Be A 2016 Juggernaut

DYLAN SCOTT – MARCH 5, 2014, 6:00 AM EST

It's long past time to start taking Ready for Hillary seriously.

What started as the passion project of two Clinton fanatics with no real ties to the notoriously insular Clinton world now has 18 full-time staff housed in the fifth floor of an office building in Arlington, Va., a few miles from the White House. Numerous Clintonites have signed onto the venture, including top Clinton White House aides and veterans of Clinton's own races for public office.

Now it's ready to expand into a truly national operation.

Ready for Hillary will soon hire field staff to work outside of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, the group's first permanent organizing outposts elsewhere. The locations and hires haven't been finalized yet, but Seth Bringman, Ready for Hillary's communications director, told TPM that the group would divide the country into a handful of regions -- maybe five -- where the staff will concentrate on on-the-ground organizing.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ready-for-hillary-field-staff

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'Ready For Hillary' Is Ready To Be A 2016 Juggernaut (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2014 OP
Tabloid swill ... GeorgeGist Mar 2014 #1
I'm ready for Hillary. BlueStater Mar 2014 #2
I'm ready for Hillary bigwillq Mar 2014 #3
She is not her husband's duplicate! Once again, she's a Rodham. juajen Mar 2014 #25
Whatever name she calls herself bigwillq Mar 2014 #27
People who are dissing her had better just "get over it." MADem Mar 2014 #4
If and when Clinton wins the nomination... DonViejo Mar 2014 #5
Oh, well. Off they go, into the wild blue yonder! MADem Mar 2014 #6
bounced out for refusal to back her? Whisp Mar 2014 #11
Yes. If she wins the nomination... DonViejo Mar 2014 #12
Then I have to ask why that didn't apply to the President all these years? Whisp Mar 2014 #13
I've served on juries where the rule book DonViejo Mar 2014 #14
Those guidelines are for election season. winter is coming Mar 2014 #15
the heat has been steady and hot ever since January 2008 and there was an election after that. Whisp Mar 2014 #16
Secretary Clinton has most certainly been subjected to the same DonViejo Mar 2014 #19
No she has not. n/t Whisp Mar 2014 #20
Sorry Whisp, I'm not interested in getting into DonViejo Mar 2014 #22
yep, wrong place and time for this. Whisp Mar 2014 #24
Yeah, so? What's your point? eom DonViejo Mar 2014 #17
The question was, why hadn't the policy been applied to Obama "all these years", as if winter is coming Mar 2014 #18
If you're following the conversation, you've DonViejo Mar 2014 #21
Yes, I saw what you said, but Whisp's followup question implied that something should have been done winter is coming Mar 2014 #23
though that did not stop DU DonCoquixote Mar 2014 #29
Heads will explode...........right here on DU. Beacool Mar 2014 #7
I am ready for her to be president. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #8
Ready for the "Clinton alternative".....you have one, right? brooklynite Mar 2014 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Whisp Mar 2014 #10
Oh joy, I can hardly wait tularetom Mar 2014 #26
The best thing that we can do to get 'ready' for the next (hopefully) Democrat in the WH in 2016 Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2014 #28
Since Ready for Hillary is gearing up now they should start with 2014 races! csziggy Mar 2014 #30
^^ This. n/t winter is coming Mar 2014 #31

juajen

(8,515 posts)
25. She is not her husband's duplicate! Once again, she's a Rodham.
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 04:46 PM
Mar 2014

No wonder more and more women are keeping their names when they walk down the aisle.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
4. People who are dissing her had better just "get over it."
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:02 AM
Mar 2014

RFH is small donors, grassroots--not astroturf.

It's the real deal.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
5. If and when Clinton wins the nomination...
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:20 AM
Mar 2014

I suspect quite a few DU'ers will be resigning from the site or, bounced out of it owing to their refusal to back her.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
6. Oh, well. Off they go, into the wild blue yonder!
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:45 AM
Mar 2014

I'm sure they'll get a warm welcome over at the Daily Paul or that other place with the layout from the nineties....



Obama was not my first choice. I "got over it." I support the POTUS and know full well that we'd be FUCKED under a President McCain or a President RMoney.

I don't understand why people don't see that. They support my Senator rather slavishly (someone I think is doing a great job for my state) for a job she doesn't want, and when you tell them stuff about her that they don't realize (because of course they think she is a "liberal" because she is sick of the bank-shit) they are shocked, shocked that she is, in fact, a MODERATE who supports the military (having had brothers who served, including one a careerist and one who served in Vietnam) and she OPPOSES the legalization of MJ (gasp, oh noes). She voted against allowing the Pentagon to cancel an unneeded program because of local pork barrel considerations--understandable from a local standpoint, less so from a national budgetary one.

When you tell 'em she voted for Reagan, the heads explode, and the cries of "LIAR!" start.

Now, I wish she was a bit to the left on the MJ issue, I wish she'd have worked with that defense manufacturer to find something else for those people to make, rather than have them make stuff that is not needed, but I don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. The people who do, I suspect, are either performance artists, naive as hell, or something worse.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
11. bounced out for refusal to back her?
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:11 PM
Mar 2014

no no no,
has anyone been bounced out for refusal to back the President over these nasty 5 years ? Sure, some obvious R/Wers but lots aren't so obvious.

O crikies. I expect the same *ahem, criticisms toward Hillary should get a pass as well.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
12. Yes. If she wins the nomination...
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:18 PM
Mar 2014

At least that's my understanding of TOS

Vote for Democrats.

-snip-

...DU members must support Democratic nominees (EXCEPT in rare cases where were a non-Democrat is most likely to defeat the conservative alternative, or where there is no possibility of splitting the liberal vote and inadvertently throwing the election to the conservative alternative).

-snip-

If you are bashing, trashing, undermining, or depressing turnout for our candidates during election season, we'll assume you are rooting for the other side.
 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
13. Then I have to ask why that didn't apply to the President all these years?
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:22 PM
Mar 2014

Don't you find it odd that the rulebook should be pulled out now, for Hillary?

I do

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
14. I've served on juries where the rule book
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:34 PM
Mar 2014

was applied to President Obama but, I'm sure there have been instances when you, me and others might believe it was not. No, I don't find it odd the rule book is being "pulled out now," because I've seen it in use for as long as I've been a member of DU and I disagree with your assertion about "now."

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
15. Those guidelines are for election season.
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:21 PM
Mar 2014
When we are not in the heat of election season, members are permitted to post strong criticism or disappointment with our Democratic elected officials, or to express ambivalence about voting for them.
 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
16. the heat has been steady and hot ever since January 2008 and there was an election after that.
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:25 PM
Mar 2014

sorry, no sale.

I expect that people will be free to call Hillary the same kinds of dreadful names and horrific accusations the President has been called and accused of here over the years. On and off election season, throughout, over christmases and superbowls and all human events.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
19. Secretary Clinton has most certainly been subjected to the same
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:42 PM
Mar 2014

level of criticism, hyperbole, ranting and raving as has the President.

Did you ever submit an alert on this subject, during an election campaign?

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
22. Sorry Whisp, I'm not interested in getting into
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:52 PM
Mar 2014

an argument with you. You're clearly gunning for one, I'm not playing along.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
18. The question was, why hadn't the policy been applied to Obama "all these years", as if
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:41 PM
Mar 2014

the speak-no-evil rule is a 24/7/365 thing. It isn't.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
21. If you're following the conversation, you've
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:49 PM
Mar 2014

read my statement regarding the application of the TOS, that it would occur only if and when Hillary wins the nomination

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251355931#post5

and here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251355931#post12

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
23. Yes, I saw what you said, but Whisp's followup question implied that something should have been done
Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:55 PM
Mar 2014

about the criticism that the President has received, period. To me, "for years" implies a much longer timeframe than the two general election seasons where Obama was running for office.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,414 posts)
28. The best thing that we can do to get 'ready' for the next (hopefully) Democrat in the WH in 2016
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 05:23 PM
Mar 2014

is ensure that he/she has a Congress with a strong majority of Democrats in it able to drive a progressive agenda over a defanged Republican minority in both chambers.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
30. Since Ready for Hillary is gearing up now they should start with 2014 races!
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 03:11 PM
Mar 2014

They could get their people in place, trained, making contacts, working on local and state contests, and have an experienced staff ready to get their candidate in front place.

If Ready for Hillary adopted a 50 state policy, not only would her campaign be stronger, the entire Democratic Party would be stronger and better able to support her while she's in office.

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