What’ll Be Left of the Democratic Party [Updated]
By SusanUnPC on May 8, 2008 at 9:51 AM in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Donna Brazile, Father Michael Pfleger, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Media Bias, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Nadhmi Auchi, New Black Panther Party, Obamedia, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Otis Moss, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground, William Ayers
After you, me, and a few more million leave: Eggheads and African-Americans.
Because, as Donna Brazile infamously said, “we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics..” (TRANSLATION: They’re a bunch of racists anyway, so screw them.)
Here’s what Donna wrote in an e-mail yesterday to an understandably unhappy Hillary supporter (the rest of her nasty e-mail is below):
Message to the base: stay home.
Good luck with that coalition, Donna, Barack, San Francisco Nancy, and Howard. Because, while we won’t stay home, you elitists, we’ll all be writing in “Hillary Clinton” on our ballots — if she’s not the nominee. As Pagan Power wrote so powerfully yesterday in her important essay, “I Call A Spade a Spade“:
It is as if race can only be seen as a detrimental factor if white people use it to form their opinions and cast their votes. A full 87% of blacks in Ohio supported Obama for the nomination but what made the headlines were those 20% of Ohioans polled that considered race in their decision. The 87% black vote we are supposed to ignore or somehow gloss over. And that appears to be exactly what Donna Brazile and the DNC expect us to do. [...]
What started out as a race of ideas has become a race about race…
Donna Brazile, the one that started the race war against Bill Clinton has concluded that blue collar white voters are part of the past and no longer a necessary part of the Democratic coalition which she sees as blacks, young people and overeducated whites (no offense to Uppity Woman).
You’ve heard all about the meltdown that Donna Brazile had a couple nights ago on CNN. Here’s the transcript and the video, thanks to V. BELOW, is another one of Miss Donna’s infamous e-mails — followed by a few frank thoughts of my own.
UPDATE BELOW THE FOLD:
Isn’t this lovely?! A diary at MyDD, “1% Clinton Dead Enders Not Welcomed With Me.” This diary singles out Alegre, Larry and me as “dead enders.” I’m honored. And this is so amusing:
The 1% Clinton Dead Enders, yes you ______, Susan and Larry, are NOT WELCOME in the Democratic Party. Your constant lying, swiftboating, and disingenuousness has been thoroughly exposed for several months (and you helped your preferred candidate lose because of it) and you bitter Kool Aid Cultists can go hide in a basement with Taylor Marsh. …
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Here’s some of the transcript from Donna’s nasty meltdown:
BEGALA: We cannot win with egg heads. We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of the first George Bush.
President Clinton — reached across to get a whole lot of Republicans and Independents to come. I think Senator Obama and Senator Clinton both have that capacity. They both have a unique ability – well it’s not unique if they both have it. They both have a remarkable ability to reach out to those working-class white folks and Latinos.
Senator Clinton has proven it; Barack has not yet, but he can. And I certainly hope he is not shutting the door on expanding the party.
. . .
BRAZILE: Well, Lou, I have worked on a lot of Democratic campaigns, and I respect Paul. But, Paul, you’re looking at the old coalition. A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics. We need to look at the Democratic Party, expand the party, expand the base and not throw out the baby with the bathwater.BEGALA: We cannot win with egg heads. We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans. OK, that is the Dukakis Coalition, which carried ten states and gave us four years of the first George Bush.
President Clinton — reached across to get a whole lot of Republicans and Independents to come. I think Senator Obama and Senator Clinton both have that capacity. They both have a unique ability – well it’s not unique if they both have it. They both have a remarkable ability to reach out to those working-class white folks and Latinos. Senator Clinton has proven it; Barack has not yet, but he can. And I certainly hope he is not shutting the door on expanding the party.
. . .
BRAZILE: Well, Lou, I have worked on a lot of Democratic campaigns, and I respect Paul. But, Paul, you’re looking at the old coalition. A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics. We need to look at the Democratic Party, expand the party, expand the base and not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
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EARLY MORNING THOUGHTS (before the caffeine has had its fully desired effect):
I feel trapped.
My usual hang-outs on the ‘net are gone. The days of the orange place and of my first-thing-every-morning reading of Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo are behind me.
In those places, I’m one of two things:
1) I’m not a good Democrat, whatever that is — and which I never particularly cared about being anyway, and/or
2) I am a loathsome racist.
Excuse me for daring to say that I’ve NEVER understood the need for unquestioning party loyalty.
Time was, at least in Washington state where I grew up, that we had as many fine Republican elected officials as Democrats. And I voted for people in either party, because I felt one or the other was the better candidate.
But since those days, it is NOT just the Republican party that has been seized by a rigid ideology of the far-right religious nutjobs.
The Democratic party has been partly seized by intense pressure from the far left, from the likes of MoveOn and CodePink (which was once a beautifully creative anti-war group but is now a parody of itself) to the legends-in-their-own-minds like Kos.
Worst of all, the Democratic party — over and over and over — lets itself be seized by the “darling” of the moment.
From Jimmy Carter to Michael Dukakis and now Barack Obama.
I’ve said this before, but I’ll be a broken record about it. I sat with my jaw on the floor in 2004 when at my local caucus, the pro-John Kerry people said, over and over, that the whole reason for supporting Kerry was because he was the “electable candidate.”
I was for Howard Dean at the time — forgive me for that — but John Edwards was then, and was again this time ’round, my strong second choice.
Edwards had both electability and the obvious traits to BE a president.
But John Kerry was seen, back then, as ELECTABLE? These days, that’s seen clearly as the joke it is.
But that’s the message that the DNC and its partner the MSM put out, and the SHEEP in the Democratic party followed along, uttering the argument they’d been spoon-fed.
As I sat there that day, in an uncomfortably small chair in an elementary school, I wondered if these people EVER had an original thought. Or if they just went along with what the evening news TOLD them to think.
I’m getting lost in a rush of memories here. Mostly memories of frustration and bewilderment.
All I do know is that the Democratic party, once again, is about to nominate a man who:
1) is not experienced enough to be president; and
2) is not presidential timber.
Some people have what it takes to be president. They have grit, toughness, determination, and the ability to make tough decisions. I see none of that in Barack Obama.
I see all of that in Hillary Clinton.
For months now, I’ve jokingly said to pals that I’m looking hard for video of Barack Obama in bed in a threesome with Tony Rezko and his wife.
I’m only half joking. I pray there is such damaging information out there somewhere.
Because apparently — and astonishingly — all the information we have on Obama already, including all of his extremely disturbing relationships with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, Nadhmi Auchi, and on and on, do not cause a blip of concern for the Democratic elite establishment.
But do the Republicans ever know that all of that matters. It’s going to be bloody. And November, if Obama is the nominee, will be a humiliating experience for the Democrats.
But, then, the Democrats seem to seek humiliation. They’re attracted to seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
Because they’re so self-absorbed with satisfying their own pyschological, elitist cravings that they cannot see that a STRONG, EXPERIENCED candidate is who is needed to 1) win, and 2) be a great president.
So, yeah, loyalty to the Democratic party doesn’t mean much to me.
NOW it’s time for some more coffee.
And it’s time to thank all of you for being here.
We’re growing a great family here at No Quarter. Each of you is making a big contribution, in all of your writings and your comments, to making sense out of this insane, confusing mess.
Together, we’ll stay strong and keep fighting for what is right. And for what is needed: Which is a president who CAN do the job and who CAN improve the lot of all Americans in this country and who CAN restore our standing around the world.
AND HERE’s THE FROSTING ON THE CAKE — another one of Miss Donna Brazile’s nasty e-mails:
From: Donna Brazile
Subject: RE: Switching to Republican Party – I’m a Hillary supporter
Date: May 7, 2008 7:48 PMHonestly, this is the 9th email today, so I believe you’re ready to not only destroy Roe versus Wade, voting rights, civil liberties and civil rights. Perhaps adding trillions more to the deficits through non stop tax cuts to the wealthy and 100 more years in Iraq.
Yes, please join Rush and McCain asap. The train has left. Catch it.
Please don’t send these emails to working people like myself. Notice you sent it to my campus address. I am a working class person. Can you find someone who drinks latte?
Message to the base: stay home.
What i want to know: HOW MUCH MONEY does the Democratic party pay this idiot? How many dollars of the donations from struggling blue-collar loyal Democrats does this woman seize and spend on her wardrobe, her coif, her lattes, her lavish lifestyle?
She’s not worth one penny. And she needs to be gone. Like yesterday.






















