2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum'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.
more
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ready-for-hillary-field-staff
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)becoming more typical of TPM everyday.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Ready for her to go away, that is.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)To go away.
NO MORE CLINTONS!
juajen
(8,515 posts)No wonder more and more women are keeping their names when they walk down the aisle.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)She still needs to go away.
MADem
(135,425 posts)RFH is small donors, grassroots--not astroturf.
It's the real deal.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)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)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)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)At least that's my understanding of TOS
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...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)Don't you find it odd that the rulebook should be pulled out now, for Hillary?
I do
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)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)Whisp
(24,096 posts)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)level of criticism, hyperbole, ranting and raving as has the President.
Did you ever submit an alert on this subject, during an election campaign?
Whisp
(24,096 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)an argument with you. You're clearly gunning for one, I'm not playing along.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)the speak-no-evil rule is a 24/7/365 thing. It isn't.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)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)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.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)From allowing Kendrick meek to get trashed and supporting Charlie Crist.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)brooklynite
(94,598 posts)Oh, who am I kidding....
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)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)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.