Washington Week - What do you think of this?

[caledesi]

I don't know how many of you saw WW, but at one point Gwen E was talking w/ one of the panelists about the Dem debate and the "future" of the candidates (for lack of a better term) based on this quarter's campaign funds. Anyhow,I think it was that b*tch Gloria Borges who said that at the end of this quarter, the DNC will "quietly talk to the candidates who are not front-runners and tell them to quit the race." Is this the way it is done? I am kinda ignorant about this primary process. I am a fairly new political junkie.

[Pepperbelly]

1. What usually happens is ...

that the money dries up. Sort of Darwinian in a way.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. PB...

Right on the money.




















NPI<no pun intended>

[never cry wolf]

4. bwahahahah

took me 30 seconds or so.

[chaumont58]

2. Gloria Borger is incapable of telling the truth

She will lie when the truth would serve her better. If she were to say the sun will continue to set in the west, I would think she had a gun to her head and her very existence was at stack. She is one of the premier beltway whores. I mean that only in a press sense, I don't think she has ever been screwed.
As for Washington Week, it is like every thing else out of DC, full of fluff and empty of substance.
Outside of Ron Brownstein, Gene Lyons, Joe Conason and not many others, the beltway press corp is like(to use a phrase from the book, "From Here to Eternity,") a Juarez whorehouse on a Fort Bliss payday.

[KC21304]

5. Years back when Gloria used to be a regular on WWR,

I used to think she was leaning liberal, but since she is on CNBC you can tell she is leaning right with the rest of them.

Does anyone else think she should sue her plastic surgeon for malpractice ? That eye job is spooky.

[Terwilliger]

6. Is the DNC funding these candidates right now?

Seems awfully "fiscally liberal" to spend electoral funds on primary campaigns.

[gottaB]

7. I think she was just whistling out her patootie

She was recycling rumours and half truths. Beware of stories with unnamed sources.

Talk about trimming the field has been in the air for some time, but whenever it's been made public, protests have been loud and proponents of cutting off debate within the Party have backed down. It's still too early.

Naturally, in the course of the campaign, some candidates may drop out. But to speculate that there's behind the scenes backstabbing and infighting, that's just journalists trying to spice up their storytelling. They want to hint at something scurrilous without assuming the repsonsibilities of the fiction writer.

On Ifill's show Graham and Braun were mentioned. I don't know the specificities of the Graham campaign, but as for Braun, the information that was presented was outdated and of questionable value. It was said that Braun had trouble paying staff. In fact that had been a problem six months ago, when Braun closed her D.C. office and let go of some staff. It has been addressed by finding people who will work for much less money, and, recently, by raising more funds. At the moment, September 26th, Braun's campaign is expanding. Borger's observation was impertinent and misleading.

Borger was trying to present herself as an impartial intermediary with valuable insights into the Party's primary process. But in at least one demonstrable instance her thinking was grounded in ignorance. I'd recommend taking anything she says with a grain of salt.