The Democratic Party's SOPA-loving, Snowden-hating, Hillary-partisan power-broker has her first-ever primary challenger

[Trubbl]

@wrecksdart

that whole voter records fiasco where DWS sued the Sanders campaign

Actually, Bernie sued the DNC.

[Trubbl]

I guess presenting John McCain as a drag queen is supposed to be some sort of insult or humiliation to him? Are you in 8th grade?

[Malarkey]

I’m kinda broke so could only give him $10 today.

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/timcanova2016

[kpkpkp]

@Malarkey

I’m kinda broke so could only give him $10 today.

It all counts and early contributions matter the most as they demonstrate the candidates fundraising viability, which bolsters social proof persuasion and the overall bandwagon effect.

[wrecksdart]

@lolipop_jones

Priebus is trying to keep the worst GOP nominee from heading the ticket. DWS is trying to guarantee that the worst Dem nominee will head the ticket.

Agreed, but I’ll take issue only with setting Trump anywhere above Cruz (as has been pointed out by @hello_friends). But yes, the more I’ve watched DWS handle the DNC position, the less I liked her actions.

[wrecksdart]

@Trubbl

Actually, Bernie sued the DNC.

Correct, my mistake. But my characterization of the episode as a “voter records fiasco” stands.[quote=“Trubbl, post:22, topic:72422, full:true”]
I guess presenting John McCain as a drag queen is supposed to be some sort of insult or humiliation to him? Are you in 8th grade?
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No, I’m in, like, tenth. And you guessed wrong! WHEEE!!!

[fnordius]

I think what is what irks so many is that DWS seems to play favourites within the party. Seems. I can’t state if it’s true or not. I think many forget that she got the job because she supports the Dems first, and my guess is that even if Bernie pulls it off she’ll throw her support behind him.

Bavarians have a term for a politician like DWS: Wadlbeisser.

[wrecksdart]

@fnordius

I think what is what irks so many is that DWS seems to play favourites within the party. Seems. I can’t state if it’s true or not. I think many forget that she got the job because she supports the Dems first, and my guess is that even if Bernie pulls it off she’ll throw her support behind him.

I certainly expect she will support a Sanders candidacy (otherwise, I would expect wholesale chaos in the party), and I do think she’s played favorites with HRC, given her speedy slapdown of the Sanders folks in the aforementioned records fiasco.

As for “Wadlbeisser”, my brief two years in high school German (Frau Heimlich, you’ll never be forgotten; slandered, yes, but not forgotten) prepared me for the pronunciation, but not much more. How would you define the word itself? A politician that waffles, perhaps? Or one that’s committed to the party, and MOSTLY to one candidate within, but who will reluctantly support whomever the voters vote into candidacy?

[fnordius]

A Wadlbeisser is a dog who bites you in the calves. In the political sense it’s the party member who makes the nastiest attacks, the guy or gal who does the attacking so that the leader can keep his or her hands clean and conveniently leash in the rabid attacker when the Wadlbeisser overdoes it.

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[wrecksdart]

Which, in American politics, could also be the Vice President, given they have little real power and are usually put into the attack-dog mode you so aptly describe. Maybe the English word for it could/should be “Sarah Palin”, if that didn’t already have connotations of mental imbalance and cognitive dissonance.