BUT
REPUBLICANS TROTTED 16 PEOPLE -- BOZOS, NEARLY ALL OF THEM, NOT
ALL -- AND THEY HAD THIS PROCESS AND ENDED UP WITH A CATASTROPHE.
DEMOCRATS, THERE WERE ALWAYS QUALIFIED PEOPLE TO RUN, MANY OF
THEM ESTABLISHMENT PEOPLE WHO WOULD DRAW THE SAME CRITICISM AS
HILLARY, BUT THEY DID NOT CARRY HER BAGGAGE.
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND
HIS MACHINE AND THE MACHINE LOCKED IT DOWN, AND ONLY A WEIRD
DUDE FROM VERMONT THINKING, I DON'T CARE -- THAT THE ONLY
REASON HE RAN, I DON'T CARE, I DON'T CARE IF I RAISE ANY MONEY,
I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS -- HE HAD A CHANCE TO
WIN.
WHETHER THE SCANDALS ABOUT HER RIGHT OR WRONG, AND MOST OF
THEM ARE WRONG, OUR NONSENSE -- SOME OF THEM HAVE SEEDS OF TRUTH
TO THEM -- SHE IS AN INCREDIBLE DAMAGED POLITICAL FIGURE.
AND
THE FACT THAT MAINSTREAM DEMOCRAT AFTER MAINSTREAM
DEMOCRAT NEVER AT ANY POINT RECOGNIZED THIS IN A SIGNIFICANT
ENOUGH WAY, OR A GROUP OR BLOCK OF THEM STAND UP AND THINK YOU
DON'T GET TO BE PRESIDENT, EVEN IF YOU'VE BEEN WRONGED, BECAUSE
MOST OF THESE SCANDALS ARE NONSENSE, YOU DON'T JUST GET TO
BE THE NOMINEE IF YOU ARE POLITICALLY DAMAGED.
AND IF FIVE
PEOPLE HAD RUN FOR PRESIDENT ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, AND I GET
THAT THERE WERE ACTUALLY FIVE --
>>A REAL RACE.
>>IF WE HAD A REAL RACE I THINK SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEFEATED.
MAYBE NOT BY BERNIE.
>>YOU HAD AS REAL A RACE AS YOU COULD HAVE HAD.
>>BULLSHIT.
YOU COULD HAVE HAD BIDEN AND WARREN IN THEIR.
>>BUT THEY DIDN'T, BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T WANT THOSE
PEOPLE TO RUN.
>>FIRST OF ALL, THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH
JOE BIDEN RUNNING.
>>I DON'T THINK SO, HE TURNED THE MACHINE OVER TO HILLARY.
>>AT A CERTAIN POINT HE DID.
>>THE PARTY MADE A HUGE MISTAKE.
>>BUT THIS WAS A VERY SPIRITED, INVOLVED, DIVISIVE AND
ULTIMATELY --
>>BECAUSE OF THE CRANK FROM VERMONT, GOD BLESS HIM.
>>THERE IS A CRANK FROM NEW YORK RUNNING IN THE REPUBLICAN
RACE AND HE WON.
I WOULDN'T QUALIFY BERNIE AS A CRANK.
BERNIE WAS A SENATOR WHO CAME INTO THE PARTY FROM OUTSIDE THE
PARTY WITH IDEAS THAT NOBODY HAD REALLY TAKEN SERIOUSLY IN
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEFORE, AND HAD GREAT SUCCESS.
>>DEMOCRATS THOUGHT SHE WAS A PERFECT CANDIDATE, AND SHE'S ONE
OF THE LEAST PERFECT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
MICHAEL, SHE MIGHT BE A GREAT PRESIDENT.
>>I DON'T THINK ANY DEMOCRATS THOUGHT SHE WAS A PERFECT
CANDIDATE.
I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE HER, NOT ONE OF
THEM DO I KNOW WHO THINKS SHE IS A PERFECT CANDIDATE.
>>THEN WE SHOULD HAVE TRIED TO GET MORE PEOPLE RUNNING.
>>YOU KNOW HOW POLITICS WORKS.
>>THEY WERE AFRAID TO RUN AGAINST THE GIANT MACHINE.
>>NOT JUST AFRAID, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
>>THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
I AGREE.
>>THAT'S MONEY IN POLITICS.
THAT'S NOT THE DEMOCRATS, THAT'S
REPUBLICANS HISTORICALLY -- HOW DID GEORGE W. BUSH RUN?
SO MANY
PEOPLE FROM LAMAR ALEXANDER TO DAN QUAYLE IN 2000
DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T AFFORD TO RUN.
>>IT'S PARTIALLY THE MONEY, BUT PARTIALLY THE FOUNDATIONAL,
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT SHE HAD TWO YEARS BEFORE SHE
ANNOUNCED, WHICH SHE KNEW WOULD BE THERE.
>>THE BOTTOM LINE IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ESTABLISHMENT,
NO ONE CAN ARGUE, WAS COMPLETELY BEHIND HILLARY CLINTON.
>>THE PARTY WAS 1000% BEHIND HER.
LOOK AT THE DNC, THE WAY THEY WORKED AT.
>>AND BEN IS RIGHT, THEY WERE WRONG.
THE CORE OF THE MISTAKE
IS THINKING, WHICH DEMOCRATS DO FOR SELFISH REASONS, PRIMARIES
ARE BAD.
THE PRIMARY WILL HURT THE PARTY, WHATEVER YOU DO,
DON'T DO THE PRIMARY.
SAID THE GUYS ALREADY IN POWER.
>>WAIT A SECOND, CENK, THEY'VE HAD SUCCESSFUL PRIMARIES THAT
GOT THEM BILL CLINTON, BARACK OBAMA.
>>THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO, MICHAEL.
EVEN UNDER OBAMA, THEY DIDN'T WANT HIM TO RUN.
>>YOU HAD JOHN EDWARDS, BARACK OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTON.
THAT WAS
ONE CYCLE AGO.
>>YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTED A
PRIMARY IN THIS ELECTION?
HELL NO.
>>WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS, MICHAEL IS RIGHT IN THE PAST,
THEY SCREWED IT UP HERE.
THEIR ASSESSMENT OF THIS CANDIDATE AS
A CANDIDATE WHO COULD WIN WAS THE ONLY REPUBLICANS THINK.
IT
IS BOB DOLE'S TURN -- THAT WAS WRONG BECAUSE THEY MISJUDGED HER
POLITICAL POTENCY, SHE IS A DAMAGED CANDIDATE WHO HOPEFULLY
WILL WIN BECAUSE SHE'S RUNNING AGAINST A MADMAN AND HOPEFULLY
ENOUGH PEOPLE RECOGNIZE YOU HAVE TO STOP EVERYTHING YOU ARE
DOING AND VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON TO STOP DONALD TRUMP.