Terry McAuliffe the Hypocrite

[Bigleaf]

Rules are rules, unless the rules need to be broken or changed for Hillary Clinton to win. That seems to be the flip flopping message of Clinton's campaign chair, Terry McAuliffe.

McAuliffe in 2003 as DNC Chair:

Move your primary too early, Terry McAuliffe warned, and Michigan will lose half its delegates to the 2004 Democratic convention.

"The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television," McAuliffe vowed. "I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules."

Michigan Democrats backed down. McAuliffe's hard-line stance prevented a free-for-all among competing states that year, and it set the tone for future mutinies.

Quite the hard ass back in 2003. Not so much this year.

McAuliffe in March of 2008 as Clinton's Campaign Chair:


Terry McAuliffe: Well, what we have said is that these folks have already voted. I mean, people talk about a revote. But there is no appetite in Florida or Michigan by the state legislatures. I mean, there's no money. Who is going to pay the tens of millions of dollars to do this?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/terry-mcauliffe-sang-different-tune.html

[catgirl]

1. Thanks for this post

A bunch of hypocrites.

[Bread and Circus]

2. You don't need to go back that far for hypocrisy. Hillary signed the pledge

to disenfranchise voters herself just to garner votes in New Hampshire.

She's a big enough hypocrite herself.