I know that this is an incredibly high bar to clear, but this is the political equivalent of the Fosbury Flop of dumbass punditry
Carol Felsenthal has the solution to the Democratic Party’s problem they should make Rahm Emanuel the next Chairman of the DNC, because a man with consistent accusations of misogyny against him and single digit support from the black community is just the guy to fix the party.
Yes, she said that. She wants a guy whose popularity in Chicago rivals that of Chris Christie in New Jersey, and whose popularity among black Chicagoans is in the single digits to be the face of the Democratic Party:
Not that he asked me, but here’s some advice for Rahm Emanuel: Run for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.
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Get in the mix. Get out of Dodge. Leave behind the burden of running a city tortured by homicides that this year top 700 with a month to go. Leave behind the stubborn unpopularity with African Americans who make up one third of the city’s population. (Even before Laquan McDonald became a household name in Chicago, Rahm’s support among African Americans was eight percent.)
Yes, by all means, motivate the minority community by hiring a guy who is as popular as Bull Connor was with the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Seems like a scenario custom-made for Rahm, whose track record in this arena is exemplary. While serving in Congress, he headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and was acknowledged to be the tactics, brains, and brawn behind the Democrats taking back the House in 2006. Years before that, in 1988, when Rahm was working at the DCCC as national campaign director, even though George H.W. Bush won the White House that year, Democrats picked up several seats.
The Dems won in 2006 IN SPITE OF Rahm, not because of him: Dean’s 50 state strategy, which Rahm hated, and anti-war candidates, which Rahm hated even more, won the day.
Just as Kellyanne Conway and Corey Lewandowski said repeatedly that the secret to Donald Trump’s success was to “let Trump be Trump,” selecting Rahm to head the DNC would “let Rahm be Rahm”—impatient, arrogant, the bully with Mafioso tendencies who sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him; the ruthless win-at-all-costs operative who stabbed a steak knife into a Little Rock restaurant’s wooden table after Clinton’s November 1992 victory, reciting the names of the people who had betrayed him and/or Clinton during the campaign, hissing “Dead!” after each name.
Rahm ain’t a tough guy, he is a bully and a coward who has made his career on sticking his tongue up the ass of rich donors, and then showering them with his largess.
For Rahm, the DNC job might seem like a vacation; he could flee Chicago and travel the country, give speeches, get back on the national stage and the Sunday morning shows. He could drop the monotone, staccato, unnaturally unprofane delivery that always seems one syllable short of an explosion.
For his actions on Laquan McDonald matter, among other things, Emanuel needs to be vacationing at club fed, maybe sharing a room with Rod Blagojevich.