Biggest Liberal ‘Super PAC’ to Fund Possible Clinton Bid

[onehandle]

Source: New York Times

The largest liberal “super PAC” in the country has begun raising money to elect Hillary Rodham Clinton president, formally aligning itself with Mrs. Clinton’s undeclared presidential ambitions more than two years away from the election.

The group, Priorities USA Action, which played a pivotal role in helping re-elect President Obama, also named new directors to steer the organization, appointments that will both cement the group’s pro-Clinton tilt and thrust veterans of Mr. Obama’s political and fund-raising operation into the center of the post-Obama Democratic Party.

The move marks perhaps the earliest-ever start to big-dollar fund-raising in support of a nonincumbent presidential candidate, providing a fund-raising portal for wealthy Clinton supporters eager to help her White House prospects — and to the legions of others eager to ingratiate themselves with Mrs. Clinton and her inner circle.

Jim Messina, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager in 2012, who has forged close ties with many Democratic donors, will serve as co-chairman of the revamped super PAC and an affiliated nonprofit, along with Jennifer M. Granholm, the former governor of Michigan who is among the most persistent voices calling for Mrs. Clinton to enter the 2016 race.

Read more: http://nytimes.com/2014/01/24/us/politics/biggest-liberal-super-pac-to-fund-possible-clinton-bid.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. .

Can we please have a moderately progressive Democrat for once in my lifetime, please?

I fear a crappy global corporatist DINO in the White House will honestly be the end of the country as we once knew it.

Fuck, someone please step up!

[Democat]

3. If you think Clinton will be the end of the country as we know it

Consider what the Republicans will be offering.

I support a everyone entering the primary, and Hillary isn't my first choice. The Republican will be far worse, however.

[Kelvin Mace]

21. It would be nice

to not be voting for the lesser of two evils.

Just once.

This is like "If you think of dying of cancer is bad, you should imagine dying of the Ebola virus."

Not mocking you, by the way, just expressing my frustration at the power wielded by our corporate masters.

[roguevalley]

40. to me, they both are because someone bought them for us.

[Beacool]

11. Don't worry.

If the country survived Reagan and the two Bushes, it can sure as heck survive Hillary. Furthermore, if she does become president, I think that she'll do a good job.

[Kelvin Mace]

22. You know where I would have LOVED

to have seen Hillary Clinton?

As Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

That is a job which would have allowed her to be true to her inner liberal without having to worry about elections.

[olddad56]

23. I don't think this country has survived Reagan and two Bushes, we are just dying a slower than....

expected death from them being in office. The whole planet is suffering from the the Bush crime family's coup of 2000 and the pilfering of the treasury on 2008.

[Enthusiast]

38. You are absolutely correct!

[OKNancy]

17. Hyperbole

First, if she runs she will be our nominee and most likely will win.
Second she is not a DINO. In no world is that anywhere near the truth. Her time in the Senate and her votes rank her as a liberal/moderate Democrat. http://www.ontheissues.org/hillary_clinton.htm
Stop reading DU and talk to real Democrats out in the real world.

[blkmusclmachine]

36. "Hillary: It Could Be Worse"

[jsr]

2. Biggest Bestest 'Liberal' Group Ever

[blkmusclmachine]

35. More lies from the DLC/Third Way bunch.

[hrmjustin]

4. They see Hillary as a winner.

Their will be a primary so it will play out.

[DJ13]

5. They call themselves 'liberal"?

[blkmusclmachine]

34. Yeah, but they're using Faux Nooz's dictionary definition.

[highplainsdem]

6. Good news! And I'm glad to see Jennifer Granholm as one of the new co-chairs.

[Robbins]

7. So

People here often say Obama Is too centrist or too corporate yet some think Hillary Is liberal?

What issue would she be to left of obama on?

There Is precendent to think she would be to right on Obama especilly on corporate and Foregin policy issues.

[blkmusclmachine]

33. If HRC is the DEM candidate for 2016, I'M OUT!

[Enthusiast]

8. This very disappointing but predictable.

If the PAC is liberal they wouldn't support Hillary.

[blkmusclmachine]

32. If the PAC is liberal, they won't be supporting Hillary.

+1,000

[marmar]

9. 'Liberally' fueled by Wall Street.

[blkmusclmachine]

31. After 30 years of the DEMS moving to the Right, "liberal" is now fully GOP-lite.

They must think we're stupid!!!

[Beacool]

10. The largest liberal “super PAC”???

Quick, someone bring over the smelling salts. Some of the DU peeps are going to be fainting and hyperventilating at the news.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Kick (nt)

[abq e streeter]

13. Originally read it as having liberal in quotation marks, not Super Pac. Would've been more accurate

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Yawn, yet another corporate-friendly, tinker-around-the-edges- of a rotted ,corrupt system "3rd Way" -er... And yet, I respectfully disagree with those who say they couldn't vote for her if she's the nominee. I too am sick of "lesser of 2 evils" voting, but when the greater evil is as profoundly dangerous as the repubs are, it's one more "hold my nose and vote for the Democrat" situation.We simply can not allow a republican to appoint any more Supreme Court "justices".

"Fund raising portal for wealthy Clinton supporters...."......'nuff said.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. "Liberal" SuperPac,

my ass.

[blkmusclmachine]

30. "Liberal/Progressive" ->

[NorthCarolina]

15. "Liberal" Super-PAC????

Perhaps the "Liberal" claim is a bit of a stretch.

Priorities USA Action was founded by former Obama campaign officials Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney in order to collect and spend money from wealthy donors, including corporations and unions.

Harold M. Ickes is the president of the group. Its key backers include Paul Begala, Teddy Johnston, Geoff Garin, Ellen Malcolm, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bill Maher, Mary Beth Cahill, and Irwin M. Jacobs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priorities_USA_Action

A better title might be Nation’s Largest Third-Way ‘Super PAC’ to Support Potential Clinton Presidential Run.

I'm really not sure why Clintonites work so hard to identify themselves with "Liberal". Would a "Liberal" support TPP, NSA spying, etc.? Perhaps you support a few things on the "social side" of the issues that are also favored by Liberals, but fiscal beliefs of a third-way 'moderate' are still more than enough to exempt you from the ranks of a "Liberal"

If a Clinton ideologue truly believes in the message of the third-way approach, then why not proclaim yourself the third-way moderate that you are and own it. Identifying as a "Liberal" while supporting third-way politics is as ludicrous and offensive and Fox News insinuating that Obama is a Socialist.

[blkmusclmachine]

37. So, who's the Independent we're voting for in red-red Texas??? HRC is NOT getting our 2 votes!!!

NO!

[SoapBox]

16. I'm very, very sorry to say...

But she cannot win and I seriously worry that the Pukes could run a white male that is a phony "moderate" (even though all Pukes are evil).

1. She cannot win because she's a woman. America will not put a woman in the White House.

2. She's a Clinton. As much as we hate Bushes...they HATE Clintons.

[earthside]

18. Agree and disagree.

I also think that she cannot win against a put-up Repuglican right-winger in 'moderate' clothes.

Disagree that America will not elect a woman President.

Tend to agree that if the wife of a former president is the best the Democratic Party can do, and on top of that a throw-back to the Bush-Clinton-Bush era ... then it is a pretty sad commentary on the condition of this nation.

[Xithras]

19. Sadly, I agree

If Hillary is the nominee, it's the Republican's race to lose. If they run some fire and brimstone, "South Will Rise Again", teabagger extremist, Hillary could win. If the Republicans find and run a moderate candidate, they'll beat her.

Most Democrats fail to grasp how viscerally the Clintons are hated on the right. Her candidacy will galvanize the Republican party and lead to massive turnout. Couple that with the fact that Hillary Clinton, who never met a banker or war she didn't like, gets only lukewarm support from much of the left, and you have a scenario where the Republicans turn out and the Democrats don't. Those tend to be the races that the Republicans win.

I don't like Clinton as a politician because she's far too right wing for my tastes, but I don't like her as a candidate because I genuinely believe that she'll cost us the election. Unless the Republicans run a COMPLETELY inept campaign with an inept or repulsive candidate of their own, a Clinton candidacy will result in a Republican president.

[NorthCarolina]

20. I totally disagree with your point number "1"

One name...

Senator Elizabeth Warren

There's your winner.

[1000words]

24. Her primary loss will be a thing of beauty

"Liberal" ... Uh huh.

[onehandle]

25. Against who?

President Obama was a known commodity. Nobody in their right mind could deny that he would probably be President one day.

I can only name one other Democrat with that level of support, that I could see becoming President, and Elizabeth Warren isn't running.

[davidthegnome]

26. I'm not sure about Clinton.

I haven't really made up my mind yet - but these super PACs make me really sick. How much fucking money do we need to pour into these political campaigns while people are hungry, making minimum wage, and can't afford the gas to get to work?

I just... I don't know, I think it's despicable. I'm not blaming Clinton for this, she has no control over what the Supreme Court decides, but since "Citizens United", the ugly has gotten even uglier.

What will she be expected to do to pay back these oh so very generous liberals? Somehow I doubt they're going to come up with huge amounts of money just because she's such a good candidate. They'll want something.

[blkmusclmachine]

29. HRC: Queen Blue Dog, DLC/Third Way member, Mrs. Triangulation, and member of "The Family."

NO, NO, and NO!

[beachbum bob]

27. awesome news, keeping the Presidency is job one

we know what a republican in the whitehouse will do to our country

[blkmusclmachine]

28. NO! to Clinton!

[liberal_at_heart]

39. "liberal super PAC" sounds like an oxymoron to me.

[Herself]

41. America still hasn't learned , the real power isn't the oval office.

It is congress.

Congress writes the legislation,or rather is supposed to.
It's the text people, the language! The crafted loop holes for the well connected and those that can afford the deciphering of it all.

Also..

Lobbyists are the plague upon this country. There is not one gop that will limit them, and it's debatable for portions of the democrats, but there is a possibility.

If people have not realized the power of the legislation, I'm gonna just SMH.