Scorpions in a Bottle?
John Kennedy is quoted as saying “Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.” Translated into modern politics, no one wants to admit responsibility for losing an election. That includes the losing candidate’s closest advisors.
The post mortems on the campaign have barely begun but Hillary Clinton’s top aides are already pointing the finger of blame at others, absolving themselves of responsibility for a debacle that will go down in presidential campaign history as the most shocking outcome ever.
It should be noted that campaign staff blaming everyone but themselves for defeat is nothing new. John McCain’s aides in 2008 began a whispering campaign against Sarah Palin, blaming her for the loss before the election was even held.
But in this case, where the advice that Clinton got was so spectacularly wrong and a billion dollars was spent in a futile attempt to sell the voters a candidate with no accomplishments and little to offer, it’s unseemly for aides not to recognize their own shortcomings.
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One DNC staffer stood up at a meeting and screamed at temporary DNC chair Donna Brazile.
The staffer, only identified as Zach, had some choice words for Brazile and her failure to lead the Democratic Party to victory on Tuesday night.
Brazile was giving a post-election rallying speech to a group of approximately 150 DNC staffers on Thursday when Zach stood up and offered his unfiltered thoughts on her leadership during the 2016 election, the Huffington Post reported.
“Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?” he asked, according to two people in the room. “You backed a flawed candidate, and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself.”
Some DNC staffers started to boo and some told him to sit down. Brazile began to answer, but Zach had more to say.
“You are part of the problem,” he continued, blaming Brazile for clearing the path for Trump’s victory by siding with Clinton early on. “You and your friends will die of old age and I’m going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen, which is going to cut 40 years off my life expectancy.”
After his tirade, Zach reportedly packed up his belongings and stormed out of the room as Brazile called after him. He then told Brazile that she needed to go outside and explain to the “people there” why she should still be leading the DNC.
On a conference call with surrogates, Clinton campaign manager John Podesta offered plenty of excuses but refused to say the strategy or the candidate was flawed.
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