2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Am I the only one tired of the Bullying of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? [View all]kurt_cagle
(534 posts)I am a fairly heavy duty Hillary supporter, but I have wanted DWS out for a long time now. Why?
1) She SHOULD have remained impartial in the election, and clearly was not. This has led to a lot of unnecessary bad blood between the centrists and the progressives.
2) She should have been riding herd on the DNC, and should have made sure that there was no hint of impropriety there. This kind of email exchange doesn't occur in a vacuum, and her views about Sanders were well known.
3) She's been abusing her position in Florida to control how money is getting to Dem races there, and it has left a lot of good, progressive democrats both struggling and angry with the party. This is not how you get people to run for office.
4) Payday Loans. Enough said there.
5) She has projected an elitist attitude that has not only turned many people off, but that seems out of odds with the message. Personally, I think she has done damn as much damage to Clinton as ANY Republican.
6) There has seldom been any question that she was building her own power base, at the very real expense of doing the damn job.
7) She also set the tone elsewhere, including in Nevada and Colorado, that Sanders was NOT the preferred candidate, and this in turn exacerbated situations at the caucus level especially.
I could go on, but I think the list is pretty comprehensive. She was a good fundraiser, but that has been turned into a liability because it now makes things look increasingly like she was cozying up to precisely the moneyed interests so many in this party are frankly getting tired of. Where's the social media networks, the outreach campaigns, the GOTV efforts?
No, I'm not sorry to see her go. I think she blew it, big time, and this email release this weekend (while disturbing in its own right) was just the final straw.