DNC Panel rule: If you want to run be a registered Democrat!

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Oh boy, weird of the DNC to bar candidates from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, the states that don’t allow partisan registration.

Oh they’re not? Well then however do they expect to determine who is a Democrat and who isn’t?

And if not, why would they make such a vague and unenforceable rule?

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

They only doing it to stop Bernie and other progresives

What "other progressives" ?

Bernie is the only plausible 2020 candidate that isn't a Democrat already, and all he has to do is say "I'm a Democrat" and he meets the requirement too.

doesn't that make the rule kind of pointless? someone could just SAY they're a democrat and they'd be fine. There's plenty of people who run in the Democratic Party and say they're Democrats without, you know, running on the actual platform (see: David Clarke).

Yes, which is why this is a good rule because it mollifies the #Ready4Hillary crowd without really hurting anything.

The party is way too fragmented and we have to get everyone to calm down. Feel-good gestures that don't have any tangible effect like this are the way to do it.

It’s not a feel good gesture if it’s a feel bad gesture for like, 40% of the party.