Clinton surrogate VT Gov. Shumlin: “Hillary is a pragmatic progressive — she’s not an advocate"

[Green Forest]

“Hillary is a pragmatic progressive — she’s not an advocate,” said Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont, who last week campaigned in Iowa for Mrs. Clinton over his home-state senator Mr. Sanders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/us/politics/hillary-clinton-regrets-not-attacking-bernie-sanders-earlier-her-allies-say.html?_r=0

The definition of an advocate is someone who fights for something or someone, especially someone who fights for the rights of others.

Read more at http://www.yourdictionary.com/advocate#deg2iWeGC6zz8Y4O.99

I don't know about you, but I sure as hell want to vote for an advocate for President!

IOWA and NH are FEELING THE BERN!

[leftofcool]

1. Feelin' the burn? Not for long!

[m-lekktor]

2. "pragmatic" is the word one uses when one doesn't want to say conservative. nt

[CharlotteVale]

8. Yep, you never hear of Republicans being described that way.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Like Mario Cuomo

During his three terms as governor of New York, Cuomo practiced what he called "progressive pragmatism."

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/mario-cuomo-poet-and-pragmatist-editorial-1.9766565

Antonyms for pragmatic:

Antonyms for pragmatic
excited impractical inefficient irrational unrealistic unreasonable idealistic

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/pragmatic

[Baitball Blogger]

16. I use to call myself a social pragmatic, which I described as a tough love Liberal.

But, again, the same term is used by degrees. I can see how someone who is conservative can push it as far right as they want to, though at some point, they stop being a Liberal.

[CharlotteVale]

3. That's funny, I think of her as an advocate...for Wall Street.

[daleanime]

5. +1

[bvf]

13. +2. n/t

[Green Forest]

21. + 2 million Bernie votes

[Hoyt]

4. I want to vote for someone who will get things done, not advocate for undeliverables.

[daleanime]

6. Call me strange....

but I kind of worry about what they want to do.

[Green Forest]

7. That's quite an unfounded assumption, given Hillary did not get much "done" as a Senator.

This fiction that she can get things done is a phony line being fed to the gullible masses.

She can't even get a majority of independents to vote for her in the GE because the majority of them
don't like her and think she's untrustworhy aka. a liar. She'd be poison to downtickets because of this.

[hrmjustin]

9. .

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

12. Wall Street would agree with you.

[bvf]

15. Those American coffins arriving from Iraq

were certainly delivered.

[bvf]

10. I swear, "pragmatic" is coming to be

synonymous with "aiming so low you'd better be wearing steel-toed boots."

Yep, give me an advocate. Give me Sanders.

[cali]

14. Shumlin is a terrible surrogate

He is so arrogant

[whatchamacallit]

17. Pragmatism = license to do nothing n/t

[JRLeft]

18. It means give TPTB more of what they want.

[Skwmom]

19. A pragmatic progressive is a "sellout progressive."

[Blue_Adept]

22. Glad to know what I am these days then

Just add it to the list of what kind of progressive/liberal I'm considered around these parts.

[Ino]

20. She's a "progressive" who doesn't want to actually progress (nt)