Donna Brazile Urges Primaries For Dems Who Vote Against Health Care Reform

[jefferson_dem]

Donna Brazile Urges Primaries For Dems Who Vote Against Health Care Reform



A leading Democratic consultant who serves in an official capacity with the Democratic National Committee has come out in favor of primary challenges to Democratic lawmakers who help kill the president's health care bill.

Donna Brazile, who is the Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the DNC and a top-ranking strategist within the party, said on Monday that Democrats who "decide to defeat" the health care bill "deserve to get a primary challenge" in future elections.

The one-time Al Gore presidential campaign manager told the Huffington Post that while at home in Louisiana she had "decided to stop pretending that I will go back to support anyone not backing health reform."

Brazile declined to elaborate, but made her view clear in a tweet she wrote shortly after President Barack Obama made an impassioned health care speech in Ohio on Monday.

DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan said that Brazile's call to support primary candidates for Democrats who vote against health care was not committee policy. Indeed, as former DNC Chair Howard Dean noted to the Huffington Post, the committee is prohibited under its bylaws from "being involved in a primary challenge."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/15/democratic-strategist-don_n_499622.html?ref=twitter

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Can we primary Donna?

[zipplewrath]

2. Is that retarded?

Wonder if she cleared this with Rahm?

[jillan]

11. Do you really have to use that word?

[zipplewrath]

13. Yeah, it's a quote

The entire point rests upon the use (reuse really, it's a quote) of that word.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Democratic apparatchiks hard at work, just like their GOP counterparts did during Bush/Cheney

Donna understands as well as we do that this is NOT any sort of health care reform, but a giveaway to the health industry, the same health industry responsible for the mess we find ourselves in.

I wonder if she holds stocks in Big Pharma and Big Health Insurance like Evan Bayh does.

[inna]

8. +100

"a DINO of the most despicable kind" is exactly right.

[asdjrocky]

4. She's pure DLC.

[jefferson_dem]

5. No!

Not ... the ... dreaded ... DLC! :scared:

[Cleita]

6. You mean the same Donna Brazille who praised George Bush for lighting up all

"warm and fuzzy" (her words) the podium where he made a speech in Mississippi days after people had died and after he had flown over the devastation and while people were still without electricity and lights, that Donna Brazille? She's a DINO of the most despicable kind because Katrina happened in her back yard and yet she had nothing but praise for the incompetence from the President on down who screwed it up. She really ought to join the Joe Lieberman Party by now.

[Supersedeas]

16. yep, she trying to be relevant again

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Donna is a hypocrite

She stood actively against the Party's outreach to include more GLBT delegates. She spewed some venom, considering what's what. A real piece of work whom I'd not trust to water my plants while I was on vacation.

[Dr.Phool]

9. The same Donna Brazile who couldn't find her ass with both hands and a coon hound?

[suzie]

15. Always seems so odd to see "progressives" spewing out the same racist garbage as the tea party types

[Dinger]

10. who Cares What rove's buddy donna says?

fuck her.

[Ron Green]

12. The same Donna Brazile who ran the Gore-Lieberman campaign,

one of the worst in political history?

Is that the one?

[PVnRT]

14. I agree, let's get rid of those conservative Democrats who cause problems in the first place

Oh, wait, the insiders say that they "have" to be there, because no one else can win in their districts.