2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI do think the demonization of Debbie Wasserman Schultz is partly driven by sexism.
I don't think she would have faced this kind of opposition if she were a man.
The fact that she's a woman seen as helping another woman defeat a man for the Democratic nomination makes that demonization even more intense IMO.
It's very difficult for women and minorities in this country and not much has changed.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Next OP.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)nothing to do with her gender. She would be getting pounded if she were a man because of WHAT SHE DOES! Damn. I don't know why that is hard for some.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Both sounds Bernie and Hill supporters, yell and scream at each other and accuse each other of the same things.
The difference is WE are usually right.
10-9-8-7-6-5......
One of them will soon say, "See, see. They all think they are right all the time."
Well, we are.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... seats. That's not sexism.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)DirtyHippyBastard
(217 posts)Not sexism. Incompetence, or something a whole lot worse, is what it is.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)and how much to a weak strategy?
And how much to gerrymandering that makes it very difficult in a non-Presidential election to elect a Democrat in the West and South?
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)are her friends?
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)Who led all those weak candidates to slaughter, rejected populists, helped elect more GOP dominated state governments than any other, and didn't even attempt to bring gerrymandering to the public's notice?
dsc
(52,152 posts)she wasn't chair in 2010, Kaine was but since he has a penis we tend to forget that and blame her.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Which one would you point to and term a "success"?
dsc
(52,152 posts)we gained senate seats, we won the Presidency, and won house seats. We did lose one governorship. We would have won the House but for the gerrymandering that happened due to the losses we experienced in 2010. 2014 was a disaster and she deserves some of the blame for that (not all though since 2010 losses gets some of the blame) but 2012 actually was a pretty good election for Democrats nationwide.
Plus, under her, the DNC is no longer neutral. This has NOTHING to do with sexism. It has to do with competence.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Or females have too much chromosome?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I had the distinct impression she was deadly serious.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)My explanation for the "missing segment" is that it represents the "rib" that God took from Adam to make Eve.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)It has nothing to do with the loss of the House and the Senate or the swing in Governorships? It has nothing to do with the clear bias she has shown in favor of HRC? How about the debate schedule? None of these things matter, just sexism?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)SEXISM!
derp
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)sorry. We can nail 1000 men for their stupid actions. But include one woman and someone can't help but think it's sexist.
It's the issue's not the gender. But playing the gender card when convenient won't stop.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Or maybe the do- maybe they secretly like the idea of SWAT team busting grannies in wheelchairs for smoking a joint- but they've figured out that it's a pretty unpopular opinion to state publicly.
It's kind of ironic that the OP is going on about the difficulties minorities face; what's one of those big difficulties minorities face? The FUCKING DRUG WAR that DWS is unapologetically shilling for.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)as long as they are women. I'm all for equality for women but Palin proves that not all women are equal, acceptable, or capable. And standing behind them just because they are women seems very sexist to me.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)The extreme demonization of DWS only began recently after Bernie's campaign was caught taking Hillary's data.
It didn't exist in June 2014.
Thank you for proving my point.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The threads about DWS happening now have to do with the interview she gave in the NY Times Yesterday, where she floated a bunch of drug war bullshit tropes about marijuana and insulted millennial women voters.
If you were really concerned about minorities, like you assert in your op, you would be criticizing DWS's drug war apologia, too.
So thank YOU for proving my point!
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)DWS was essentially turned into the devil right after Bernie's campaign was caught taking Hillary's data, before the interview in the NY Times yesterday.
Keep trying.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I've been criticizing her since her clusterfuck around medical marijuana, specifically when she teamed up with shedlon adelson to work to ensure sick people could keep going to jail for it.
That's exactly when she lost me.
I realize for some people everything is about "Team C" versus "Team B", but she's a FUCKING TRAIN WRECK and the crap she is spouting is indefensible.
Truprogressive85
(900 posts)Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/senate-bid-could-be-solution-for-wasserman-schultz-115373#ixzz3wh7Nv9VT
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)who were running against her Republican buddies.
http://observer.com/2015/09/debbie-wasserman-schultz-must-go/
FTS
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)that far exceeds Bernie running.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)But only because of the fake curls, mind you.
earthside
(6,960 posts)My gosh, people on DU and in Democrats in the real world have been griping about her for the last two years at least.
I, myself, have wondered why she has been allowed to stay on as chair after the 2014 debacle ... long before Sanders was talking about running for the nomination.
'Sexism' is not a retort for every woman who comes under political pressure -- sometimes they have just been incompetent because they are incompetent: like DWS.
stonecutter357
(12,693 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)There was lots of complaining about only six debates, DWS helped Sanders with this decision, Clinton has won the debates and has delivered her stand on the issues very well. When Sanders was given the opportunity to deliver on foreign policy, he delivered another financial statement. Both Clinton and MOM performed well on the foreign policy question.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Like breaking the DNC contract with Sanders in a knee jerk attempt at sinking his campaign. Stuff like that.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)The contract was breached and yes she did take action, afterwards Sanders fired the employee, suspended two others and then DWS waited until Sanders agreed to an audit before restoring the database, yes DWS did the right move by getting the agreement to audit and with holding the campaign access until this was agreed. DWS reacted to a breach initiated by the Sanders campaign.
bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)Please don't speak on things you know nothing about.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Fired a staff member and suspended another, agreed to the audit, since he has taken steps I am thinking he knows there is wrong doing.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)The chair is a disaster for the party: change the chair.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)MeNMyVolt
(1,095 posts)I think you're probably right on some of the OTT stuff being thrown around lately.
But I have to tell ya, I'm a fervent HRC supporter and I don't particularly care for DWS.
randys1
(16,286 posts)to benefit Hillary when I think she should have been more impartial.
But she is just not that good at the job, and I dont think I am being a sexist with this observation, but it is possible as all men are misogynist to one degree or another, which pisses some men off but i dont care
morningfog
(18,115 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)As you well know.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)We'd be fine that, say, "Duddy" Wasserman abandoning the DNC chair's obligation to be neutral in the presidential primaries and pushing hard to force the nomination of the most conservative candidate in the race?
Especially if that candidate's name was, say, Henry Rodham Clinton?
Why would you think that?
(btw, do you really think Huey Freeman would prefer HRC? Hard to believe that, given Huey's principled and deeply committed stands on the issues.)
randys1
(16,286 posts)favoritism when we dont want her too, and at the same time takes criticism that a man would not deal with.
The criticism and attitudes taken toward her would be different if it was a man working to help another man, and we have to be man enough to admit that, having NOTHING to do with politics.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)because he was viewed as ineffectual.
For example,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x119273
bvar22
(39,909 posts)I don't care WHAT gender she is, or if she has one at all. I care about policy and leadership.
I've been keeping track of DWS. The following is why I don't support her, and would like to see her leave the Party....and it has NOTHING to do with a vagina.
I would feel the same betrayal if it was committed by someone with a penis.
Some historical background on DWS:
In 2008 Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to endorse these 3 Democrats
who had won their Primaries and had a chance to win Republican seats:
Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair Joe Garcia
Former Hialeah Democratic Mayor Raul Martinez
Democratic businesswoman Annette Taddeo
All three had won their local Democratic Primaries, and were challenging Hard Core Republican incumbents with whom Wasserman-Schultz had become cozy.
Not only did the head of the DCCC Red to Blue Program REFUSE to endorse these Democratic challengers,
but she appeared in person at at least one (possibly more) Campaign/Fundraiser for their Republican opponents.
FL-18, FL-21, FL-25: Wasserman Schultz Wants Dem Challengers to Lose
by: James L.
Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 7:15 PM EDT
<snip>
Sensing a shift in the political climate of the traditionally solid-GOP turf of the Miami area, Democrats have lined up three strong challengers -- Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair Joe Garcia, former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez, and businesswoman Annette Taddeo to take on Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, respectively.
While there is an enormous sense of excitement and optimism surrounding these candidacies, some Democratic lawmakers, including Florida Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kendrick Meek, are all too eager to kneecap these Democratic challengers right out of the starting gate in the spirit of "comity" and "bipartisan cooperation" with their Republican colleagues:
But as three Miami Democrats look to unseat three of her South Florida Republican colleagues, Wasserman Schultz is staying on the sidelines. So is Rep. Kendrick Meek, a Miami Democrat and loyal ally to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
This time around, Wasserman Schultz and Meek say their relationships with the Republican incumbents, Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and his brother Mario, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, leave them little choice but to sit out the three races.
"At the end of the day, we need a member who isn't going to pull any punches, who isn't going to be hesitant," Wasserman Schultz said.
Now, you'd expect this kind of bullshit from a backbencher like Alcee Hastings, but you wouldn't expect this kind of behavior from the co-chair of the DCCC's Red to Blue program, which is the position that Wasserman Schultz currently holds. Apparently, Debbie did not get Rahm's memo about doing whatever it takes to win:
The national party, enthusiastic about the three Democratic challengers, has not yet selected Red to Blue participants. But Wasserman Schultz has already told the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that if any of the three make the cut, another Democrat should be assigned to the race.
http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1537
The bloggers also are furious with Rep. Kendrick B. Meek (D-Fla.), who similarly refuses to endorse the Democratic challengers to the three Cuban American Republicans.
They are calling for Wasserman Schultz to step down from her leadership role at the DCCC. And they're not letting up, even after one Florida liberal blogger reported that the congresswoman seemed "frustrated" by the blogs and had asked to "please help get them off my back."
This prompted even harsher reaction from perhaps the most influential of the progressive political bloggers, Markos Moulitsas, a.k.a. Kos, founder of Daily Kos, who wrote on his blog Wednesday: "On so many fronts, the Republicans are standing in the way of progress, on Iraq, SCHIP, health care, fiscal responsibility, corruption, civil liberties, and so on. Those three south Florida Republicans are part of that problem. And she's (Wasserman-Schultz) going to be 'frustrated' that people demand she do her job?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903410_3.html
Here are Kos comments on the Wasserman-Schultz betrayal of the Democratic Party:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/03/20/480511/-DCCC-Says-Uproar-Over-DWS-Recusal-Much-Ado-About-Nothing
A lot of time has passed since 2008, but I don't take these kinds of betrayals lightly. Now I find that DWS has been PROMOTED from Chair of the Red to Blue Program
to Chair of the DNC. She must be making the "Centrist" Democratic Leadership VERY HAPPY if they are rewarding THIS kind of Party Treason.
bvar22
Cursed with a memory
With "partners" like this, we don't need Republicans!
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)And it has nothing to do with her being female, have curls, etc. It's a betrayal of member of this party.
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)given the havoc shes caused the party not to mention how she's greased the skids down the rabbit hole of corporatism.
randys1
(16,286 posts)I should add I still think she is bad at her job.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)We don't hesitate to trash Rinse Penis or whatever his name is on the other side.
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)
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fredamae
(4,458 posts)She is not good at her job unless her job was/is to finally dissolve the Dem Party.
I don't care what gender she is. Period.
think
(11,641 posts)Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) is getting brutally walloped in the liberal blogosphere for refusing to endorse the Democratic challengers to three potentially vulnerable GOP incumbents in Florida.
Liberal bloggers are irate that Wasserman Schultz, who co-chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Red-to-Blue program, has declined to endorse the Democrats running to unseat Cuban American Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and his brother, Mario Diaz-Balart.
Wasserman Schultz says she doesn't want to stab GOP members of her own delegation in the back. But liberal bloggers say she's killing her own while aiding and abetting the enemy..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903410_3.html
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)She hasn't done a good job getting Dems elected. That is my beef with her. Nothing to do with her gender...I am a woman also. I don't have any respect for any Democrat who doesn't support other Democrats, because she has Republican friends, male or female.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Donald Wasserman Schultz would have been under just as much scrutiny given the horrible job he's done.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Oh ,, Okay Sexism.. She has never seemed to me sexist? That's what we're talking about right.
Autumn
(44,980 posts)the fact that she is a shitty biased DNC chair who has not put the Democratic voter first and foremost. Her gender doesn't enter into my contempt for her.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)Autumn
(44,980 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)elleng
(130,732 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)I think a man might have been fired already.
--imm
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)So you think women have it easier than men?
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)I hesitate to generalize. Some do, some don't. I'm a man, and I suspect there are women that have it easier than I do.
--imm
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)dirtydickcheney
(242 posts)Utterly incompetent.
applegrove
(118,492 posts)jewish leader as 'Democrats'. Trying to poison the well. They don't attack Bernie is such a personal way because they want him to take out Hillary.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Please stop defining sexism down. You make it harder for actual victims of sexism.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Obvious conclusion is we're suffering under the iron heel of the Vagina Mafia.
Splinter Cell
(703 posts)Every time someone who's actions are highly questionable, that happens to be female, gets called on their bull, it's "sexism". Horseshit.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)exactly.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)mhatrw
(10,786 posts)It's all her chromosomes.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)she's totally inept - and as for sexism, I had the same disdain for Rahm Emanuel when he ran the DCCC. If somebody is bad at their job, they're bad at their job, no matter what gender they are.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)She sucks at her job, she has NOT been helpful in electing Democrats, she's a corporate shill. None of which has a thing to do with her gender.
But you know that. Your post is nothing more than a cheap gambit at deflecting and attempting to shut down deserved criticism.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Stop treating DWS with kid gloves, doing that IS sexist.
djean111
(14,255 posts)the Third Way. Many example and links have been posted here at DU.
Do you believe that what DWS does, and has done, would be okay if she were a man? That's so very sad.
In any event, I will be sending what little I can to the person who is going to primary her, and will continue to not support anyone who belongs to the Third-Way advised (not a guess, it is public reality, they are proud of it) New Democrat Coalition.
Gender not germane - the whole membership list.
Making this into a gender thing/Hillary thing is just obfuscation. Some of us have been posting about DWS and her GOP buddies for years.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)And needs to go. Her genitalia and her choice for the nominee have nothing to do with it, at least for me.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)More likely, DWS has such a bad record and losing streak under her leadership that its making party unity shaky. Its not sexist to say the Democratic party was reamed in the midterms while she was in control.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)DWS deserves a cabinet position
CanonRay
(14,084 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Actually, I don't think very much of it is- at least in liberal/progressive circles. But we can all play this game if we want to be intellectually dishonest and cook things up.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)DWS is a prominent center-leftist, ergo many DUers would hate her whatever sex she was.
We can't prove that her sex isn't a factor for some people, but the demonisation - and I think that's an excellent choice of word - of her is not evidence that it is.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Debbie is not the right person for the position.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)So what is she to do? Well, just like Clinton: she has her critics accused of sexism. Because any woman doing what she does is doing a fine job, right? The idea that a politician, regardless of genitals, could be an electorally ineffective, organisationally undemocratic, and biased corporate shill, must be banished because gender gender!
All that is missing is the invoking of 9/11.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)It is coming, but Hillary just used it, so Debbie has to wait a while before SHE gets to use 9-11.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)bullshit
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...well, speaking for myself, as a woman and longtime feminist:
BZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT, WRONG.
DWS faces my ire because she is both disloyal to the Party that she serves, and incompetent in helping that Party win seats. She faces even more of my ire because I don't believe it's incompetence on her part, I believe it's on purpose.
And although Clinton was not my first choice in her primary race against Obama, she did come before Obama on my list because I thought he was too green. Over the course of that campaign he convinced me and many others based on differentiating himself on a few issues, notably health care: against the mandate, would insist on a public option (sigh). So again: no, for me this has NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH to do with "helping another woman defeat a man".
It has to do with being a venal and corrupt faux Democrat. The end.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)losing dozens of governorships, senate seats, house seats, and yes, even the 2008 Hillary campaign, people would be demanding that person be fired.
Just because she happens to be a certain gender does not mean she is not incompetent.
BTW, where were all the calls for standing by women when DWS attacked Tulsi Gubbard? Was Tulsi less a woman than Debbie?
And do Hillary and Debbie bending their ears rightward help the woman who bear the brunt of our economy, or who are dying in battlefields?, oe whose sons and daughters get shot by cops, or who get raped in prisons run by for profit companies?
If you are going to claim to be a champion of women, then please do not ignore the women who do not happen to look like Hillary, they are women too.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)... in the Sanders organization. Rather than having the maturity to accept that maybe the Sanders organization (and, perhaps Sanders himself) is flawed, they blame her.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Some people are simply terrible at their jobs.
In the DWS case, she was helping REPUBLICANS get elected in Florida.
That is ALL anyone need to know. Her gender has NOTHING to do with it.
In fact, if she were a man, I believe he would be LONG GONE, but DWS has "friends" among the party leadership,
and, obviously, her Party Bosses believe she is doing a great job getting Republicans elected, so they are keeping her.