I think Kirsten Gillibrand took a gamble here and misfired, thinking she needed to scramble to the highest high ground and in so doing having to throw former supporters who essentially got her to the US senateship under the bus.
As the Daily Beast said, democrats don't need to reach for the high ground, they already have it.
I think she has miscalculated on the Clintons losing power in the Democratic Party and not needing their support in the future. And as per usual instead of uniting against republicans this will become another ugly self weakening
divisive
internal fight as she jockeys for position in 2019. I think she also has misjudged Democrats’ regard for Al Franken and the (lack of) process he encountered before being ejected from the Senate, as has certainly been seen by the arguments here on the subject. This is not good for the party
"She's not putting in context her rationale for who she calls for resignation and when," Reines said Thursday. "She two weeks ago called for Bill Clinton's resignation, or saying Bill Clinton should have resigned two decades ago."
"[She] didn't really say why, she never said say she regretted not speaking earlier, or taking the Clintons' support or money," Reines continued. "And then goes a few weeks without saying anything on Sen. Franken until yesterday.
Reines reiterated that he thought Gillibrand, a possible 2020 Democratic presidential contender, had not explained her "rationale" for demanding these figures' resignations.
"That's not to say her decision was wrong. She was joined by 29 other senators," he added. "But most people have been discussing this in a framework of, 'If someone does this, it's unacceptable and they should resign.' It's unclear in the way she's been, in describing her actions, what that rationale is.
Reines, who served under Hillary Clinton at the State Department, has repeatedly attacked Gillibrand in recent weeks, labeling her a "hypocrite" last month after she argued that Bill Clinton should have resigned for his sexual misconduct in the White House.
"Her point was strange to me because she probably didn't come to this feeling and thought and position yesterday," Reines said on Fox News in November.
"Why she wouldn't have in the last 20 years vocalized it is strange to me. Nothing was stopping her."
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Because one democrat taking out another democrat is EXACTLY what democratic primary voters want in a candidate