2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFox News guest: Democratic party run by ‘estrogen cabal” who will crush anyone in Hillary’s way
Fox News guest: Democratic party run by estrogen cabal who will crush anyone in Hillarys wayby Bethania Palma Markus at the Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/fox-news-guest-democratic-party-run-by-estrogen-cabal-who-will-crush-anyone-in-hillarys-way/
"SNIP.............
Fox News guest David Martosko said the Democratic National Committee is controlled by an estrogen cabal of women and they want to clear the path for candidate Hillary Clinton at all costs, just because shes a woman, Jezebel reports. He got the information at a Las Vegas casino bar from an unnamed source.
The Daily Mail political editor told Your World host Neil Cavuto the source was a female member of the DNC from a very blue state who approached him at the bar while he was in Vegas covering the Democratic primary debate.
The crazy things you hear in casino bars in Las Vegas, Martosko said. Her story was, very simply, that the women at the top of the DNC are kind of an estrogen cabal, if you will have made it their mission from early on to clear the path for Hillary Clinton and make sure none of her male challengers had a reasonable chance of knocking her off her perch.
He went on to point out that a majority of the DNCs leadership positions are held by women.
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applegrove
(118,492 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)I'm really not upset about crushing the GOP
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Neither are women.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Watch out, some folks are afraid of estrogen. I loved my estrogen you really don't appreciate it until its gone.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Using the threat of estrogen to scare people. You or I may make a distinction however the article is lumping women together as some kind of hormone crazed amazons that are able to stop democracy with the presence of estrogen, which is kinda funny since Hillary and I are the same age and we ain't got much.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)He could have heard that at any bar in Vegas. Every Bernie supporter knew it and was talking about it.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I don't need to vote for someone based on their gender. I'm voting for Sanders based his platform, not because of his plumbing.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)officials are clearing a path and stomping all over democracy to do it. we cant let the "estrogen" wingnuttery distract us from the reality that scheming and favoritism are taking away our right to choose our next leader.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I do not see why so many are saying that the DNC leadership is trying to clear a path for Hillary Clinton. What are they doing that is hurting the other candidates so much? Each of the candidates can campaign as much as Hillary Clinton. Sanders and others are being allowed to debate Hillary Clinton. All of the other candidates have been allowed to setup websites and do everything else that Hillary Clinton has done in order to get her message out. There are primary election is all of the states that are supposed to have elections. As far as I know the DNC leadership is not trying to prevent people from voting in the primaries. So, what are they doing that is hurting the other candidates? How is the DNC leadership "clearing a path and stomping all over democracy"?
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)at the beginning, Hillary only wanted four although she probably really didn't want any, and interestingly enough four is how many debates have actually been scheduled since the other two are TBA. All the other candidates have pressed for more debates. The Dnc is putting exclusivity clause meaning that if another entity wants to host a debate that the candidates can't participate without being shunned from the DNCevents. The debates were postponed until after two GOP debates are taking place giving the GOP lots of time to get their talking points out. Only one of the debates are scheduled to be on a weeknight the other three are on weekend nights, and one of them is on the Saturday before Christmas during a major holiday season for two major world religions. and a top it all off, several top Dnc officials have come out and said that Wasserman Schulz did not consult any of them when she set the debate schedule, and when one representative who is a top Dnc cochair called for more debate, she was disinvited from the debate we just had.
it is pretty well-known that Hillary did not want any debates or as few as possible. Wasserman Schultz was the cochair of her last campaign. Everything is being done to squelch the number of debates and the visibility and people were not consulted who should've been consulted to set the debate schedule, and now when Dnc people are speaking out there being disinvited from events that they have every right to be at. this is clearly all being done to shield Hillary from having to debate publicly because her positions on the issues are either terrible or have been copied from Bernie for the purposes of getting to the nomination. If you can't see the collusion and the corruption, then I really don't know what else to say. They.re not even trying to hide it anymore.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)If a candidate cannot get there message across in four debates, the problem is not with the party it is with the candidate. Also, I do not believe that debates are that important. Campaigning and advertising is much more important. Once again, each of the other candidates are being allowed to do the exact same things that Hillary Clinton is being allowed to do. Each of them have the ability to setup website, conduct campaign events, and stomp for voters. There will be primary elections that will allow the people to vote for which ever candidate they like. Democracy is alive and well.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)and I'm sure you're not alone. But all of the candidates except for Hillary and a good portion of the American public as well as outspoken members of the DNC all call for more debates. There's no need to hide a good message. Perhaps the 26 we had in 2008 were too many, but four is not enough for most people. And the biggest thing is to end the exclusivity clause. That way other groups can host debates and whichever candidates want to go to them can go to them.
treestar
(82,383 posts)A white man.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Disgusting.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Those cowards fear a strong woman, especially Hillary Rodham Clinton!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Don't be scared shitless people, it's just estrogen. Let's give it a try at the highest level ONCE.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)been running the show for over 200 years. Lots of frightened little men afraid of losing their perch on the food chain.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Sounds like the prospect of a female president makes him hysterical. He's probably having a tough enough time with a black President.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)this when I first heard this, no. the first source I saw on DU was from a rag who supposedly got the information from someone in a very tight group of people, indicated it was a "she" so it is easy to point a finger at a few to arrive at the answer of the source. I guess we can continue to run on the RW talking points or just tell the truth.