Jerry Brown: Leave Hillary Clinton alone

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Jerry Brown ran against Bill Clinton in the 1992 Democratic primaries. Now he doesn’t think anyone should run against Hillary Clinton when she seeks the nomination next year.
“I can’t think of anything I’d rather have less if I were running for president than to have a competitor in the primary,” the California governor said, speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon following a series of meetings with staff about climate change.

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“The primaries get into all the little nuances and small differences of candidates of the same party,” Brown said. “What Hillary needs is a good debate drawing the distinctions between where she stands and where all these Republicans, these wannabes running around.”

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I don't necessarily agree with him, anybody can run if they want to, but I love my governor. Having lived in FL under the gubernatorial control of clowns like Bob Martinez, Jeb Bush, and Rick Scott I love living in L A , a Democratic city, in a Democratic region, in a Democratic state.

It's like Florida, with less humidity, mountains, and cooler politics.

I was too young to vote but I supported him in 1976 when he was a late entry into the Democratic race.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Jesus God, no. NO CORONATIONS. Make her fight for the nomination.

[99Forever]

2. I used to like that guy.

What was I thinking?

Coronations suck. People promoting them suck even more.

[winetourdriver]

9. Gov Brown

You are right, we need a good primary, it keeps everyone honest.. Brown is popular here, he has a deft hand with the legislature and his "tight fisted" fiscal policies have done the state well.

[Man from Pickens]

3. and as we all know

The Democratic Party nomination is Hillary's own personal property, to be disposed of as she sees fit. How dare anyone attempt to introduce a democratic process to upset the apple cart?

[Thinkingabout]

5. Attempting to halt Hillary from running does not play into the democratic

process either.

[Man from Pickens]

7. Nobody's stopping her

At no time will I ever assert that she doesn't have the right to run for office, unless of course she gets convicted of a felony in which case applicable legal barriers would apply.

On the contrary, I wholeheartedly agree that she should run. A second rejection of her candidacy will put the final stake in her ambition to rule over us and cement the New American Aristocracy.

[hrmjustin]

11. And if she wins the nomination will you support her?

[Man from Pickens]

15. No

From my point of view that's like asking if I would support Jeb Bush.

If she's our nominee, I am writing in Warren or Sanders or some other name. I will not be conned or coerced or pressured into supporting a candidate who is guaranteed to sell us all out to the highest bidder and to make her primary use of the office of President as a vehicle for personal enrichment.

People who support Hillary will need to figure in their calculations the significant number of Democrats who will bail if asked to support someone so wholly opposed to our interests. The only actual argument given for her is that "she can win" - well, I don't think she can, because she can't turn out the base.

[hrmjustin]

17. So Puma is back then.

[Man from Pickens]

23. Hillary herself rejected party unity

So... now her supporters are going to make the argument that we have to line up behind her.

100% typical of the raging hypocrisy necessary to stomach her candidacy

Interviewer: You don't buy the party unity argument?

Hillary Clinton: No, I don't

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That's of course only the second most controversial thing she said in that 84-second clip, the first being the "Will no one rid me of this troublsome bishop?" open plea for someone to take out Obama so that she could be the nominee.

[hrmjustin]

25. Thats rather disingenuous. You know damn well she stood with Obama 100 percent once the primary

was over. She was making the point that it was close and she wasn't droppinig out till it is over.

Nice try but epic fail.

[Bobbie Jo]

20. Ridiculous

Take your toys and go on home then.

Are you going to hold your breath too?

I have news for you, "the base" will turn out. Those threatening to do otherwise are not the base, never were...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. I am not going to try to convince folks any more

But if by base you mean African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and left of center caucasians she will do just fine.

[leftofcool]

30. And women...............and many Republican women!

[zappaman]

26. So Hillary is the same as Jeb?

[msongs]

28. no she is the same as obama with very few differences nt

[Man from Pickens]

29. Pretty sure Obama wouldn't laugh reminiscing about getting a child rapist off

especially if he knew, like she did, that the accused was guilty as sin

[zappaman]

31. So Hillary is the same as Jeb?

[OKNancy]

32. I You live in South Carolina, so it won't matter anyway other than symbolic

My vote for her in Oklahoma will be the same.

[Thinkingabout]

14. What felony? In many states felons can't vote. BTW, I vote.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I just posted it get to talk about Jerry Brown. What a remarkable career.

And he's hugely popular here.

[JaneyVee]

4. JB should run in 2016.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. He got in the race late in 76 and won every primary he entered./NT

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Disagree. We need a fun primary. Al Franken, please run! Make the debates "must watch" TV.

[Frances]

13. Al Franken is a great guy

but he is not going to run.

[Frances]

12. I am proud that Brown is my governor!

I don't believe in coronations, but I don't think we will get a better general election candidate than Hillary.

I think the point Brown is making is that the difference between Hillary and another Dem candidate will be small compared with the difference between Hillary and any one of the current or future Republican candidates.

Frankly, I am tired of those people who do their best to defeat good Dems because those Dems don't agree with them on every issue. I remember all too well how so many DUers thought that Obama would do everything just the way they wanted. I knew that was not realistic. I didn't agree with Obama on everything when I voted for him and I don't agree with him on everything now, but I still support him.

Any of you who are hyper critical of Obama should think about what life would have been like under President McCain.

Come to think of it, think of all the dead and crippled people in this country and in Iraq who would be alive and whole if we had had President Gore instead of President Bush. I know, I know, there are those who think President Nader was the answer, but that was never going to happen.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. He has really turned CA around./NT

[HereSince1628]

16. Well,if primaries were coronations bourn on moonbeams

Maybe.

The leadership in this party increasingly seems to be operating outside reality

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. It wasn't folks on the left who parroted the Governor Moonbeam epithet.

And his successful career which went from the apex to the nadir and back to the apex contradicts that moniker.

I do agree, of course, that anybody is free to run.

[CountAllVotes]

21. I voted for him in 1976

He is a fine man and deserves everything he has in life. He is a true American IMO.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. He got in too late in 76...

I believe he beats Ford but with a very different coalition than the coalition that elected President Carter, a coalition of states that fell apart the very next election.

[zappaman]

27. My governor kicks ass!

I don't agree with him on this, but so what?
It doesn't make him any less of a Democrat or a great governor!