By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--October 20, 2016
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This morning, Democrats are frothing at the mouth about Trump's refusal to pre-emptively accept the results of a possibly-close election that hasn't happened yet. This, they argue, makes him a dangerous insurrectionist, and unfit for the White House. Some, like New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait, have gone so far as to say Trump is actively working against American Democracy.
Respect results? In 2002 Hillary Clinton argued Bush was 'selected' - not elected
If that's the case, if Trump's wait-and-see attitude is really a disqualifier, then Hillary's in big trouble. She's been denying election results for 15 years. It seems that, back in 2002, she was "refusing to except the outcome" of George W. Bush's first victory. In fact, Newsweek reported that she told fundraiser attendees Bush had been "selected President, not elected."
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- At a private fund-raiser in Los Angeles for Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the crowd that President Bush merely had been "selected" president, not elected, Newsweek reports in the current issue. "You know, I'm a fan of Clintonomics," she told the crowd while standing from a perch on the staircase of movie producer Alan Horn's art-filled Bel Air home, "and this administration is destroying in months our eight years of economic progress." Though she and her husband had raised more money than any other Democratic political team this year, Clinton said, Bush's machine has raised far more "to try to ruin the reputations of our candidates or, if they can't, to depress the turnout" by making campaigns unpalatably nasty. "But, you know, you have got to hand it to them," Clinton said with what sounded like a rueful appreciation. "These people are ruthless and they are relentless."Obviously, refusing to accept results is nothing new. It's been part of the standard Democrat playbook since recounts revealed that Bush won by even more than initially thought. Still, it's an especially specious argument when your corrupt presidential candidate has been caught funding an election year goon-squad AND she was one of the ones beating the "Bush cheated" drum.
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