Ken Berwitz
Today\’s quote comes to us from Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont and – like Hillary Clinton – frontrunning presidential candidate who ran into a bit of trouble along the way.
Here is what he said in promoting Ms. Clinton\’s candidacy over fellow Vermonter Bernie Sanders. See if you can make heads or tails out of it:
“Why does Hillary Clinton have to put up with a doublestandard? I don\’t hear anybody asking Bernie Sanders for histranscripts for some speech he made with a labor union. Frankly, for Bernie tosay he doesn\’t have a super PAC, labor unions are super PACs. Now, they\’resuper PACs that Democrats like, so we don\’t go after labor unions, but this isa double standard.”
This, I think – I think – is a statement that is supposed to help Hillary Clinton, by beating up on Bernie Sanders….but, in the process, telling us that Sanders has super PACS – hated by Democrats – in his pocket, they consist of labor unions – absolutely imperative for any Democrat to win national office – it, and Democrats in general, and that Democrats are a bunch of overt hypocrites, who like super PACs (i.e. labor unions) which support them.
I award Howard Dean Quote Of The Day honors for providing us with what very well may be the most garbled, head-scratching comment of the campaign so far.
But don\’t worry, Howard. It\’s a good bet you won\’t be on the hook for long. Both sides of the aisle are perfectly capable of putting out material even more garbled and head-scratch worthy. In fact, as a political blogger, I\’m counting on them to do just that.
I don\’t expect to be disappointed.
