NPR Finds Boxer Sees Nothing Wrong with Dems, Mad at Anyone Spurning Hillary Over E-mail Scandal

December 22nd, 2016 9:11 PM

Wednesday night’s All Things Considered on NPR carried a very soft, supportive six-minute interview of outgoing ultraliberal Sen. Barbara Boxer by co-host Kelly McEvers on the “path forward for Democrats.” Boxer wouldn’t admit there were any real problems with the appeal of Democrats, certainly nothing unappealing about their leftist ideology.

MCEVERS: This is a time of crisis, though, for the Democratic Party. I mean there's lots of talk about whether the party should do more to reach out to white working-class voters, voters who...

BOXER: Yeah, I don't think we're in crisis at all. This is my view. I think what we need to do is marry the Bernie wing of the party with the Hillary wing, the standing together and stronger together wing with the populist wing, and we'll be fine.

McEvers pushed her a little about who would be the leaders of the future — and Boxer kept pushing both Obamas and Joe Biden, not exactly a set of fresh faces. Then Boxer suggested Hillary’s private e-mail server scandal shouldn’t have been a reason to vote against her, because nobody’s perfect:

McEVERS: You said we have to be honest about the mistakes that were made in this election. What were those mistakes?

BOXER: Well, when I - you know, this is all hindsight. I think rather than sending Hillary to Arizona and Texas, it would've been better to send her into those states where we lost by a hair - you know, Michigan...

McEVERS: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.

BOXER: Yeah, yeah. I mean we didn't do that, and so that was a mistake. I also would like to say I think when people would say, oh, I just can't vote for Hillary 'cause I don't like this and that email or this, I would say, look, nobody is perfect. I always tell people, you're never going to find the perfect candidate unless you yourself run. But it's very difficult for people. They want perfection. I feel we're going to pay the price for that.

McEvers didn’t ask if the Democrats going to extremes for Planned Parenthood as they sold dead baby parts or playing the bathroom police ended up hurting the party. The first part of the interview was all about how there are now 21 women in the Senate, up from two just 25 years ago, and whether there’s any concern that the number of females in the House of Representatives is a concern.

McEvers noted about 1992, “Four women were voted into the Senate that year, and at the time, your colleague, Barbara Mikulski, senator of Maryland, said calling it the Year of the Woman makes it sound like the year of the caribou or the year of the asparagus - we're not a fad, a fancy or a year.”

What she did not explain was that this phrase was liberal media hype in the months after they failed to ruin the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas.

But when Bill Clinton was impeached by the House over lying about an affair with a much younger intern, all the “feminist” Democrats stuck with Clinton, voting “not guilty” on both impeachment counts  (Boxer, Feinstein, Landrieu, Lincoln, Mikulski, and Murray), as did Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, Republicans of Maine. The only female dissenter on both counts was Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.