California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Sunday said intelligence should be the deciding factor for Democratic Party candidates, suggesting that abortion as a litmus test would not be helpful nationwide.
“Well, the litmus test should be intelligence, caring about, as Harry Truman or Roosevelt used to call it, the common man,” Brown told NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked by host Chuck Todd if abortion should be the litmus test for his party.
“We’re not going to get everybody on board. And I’m sorry, but running in San Francisco is not like running in Tulare County or Modoc, California, much less Mobile, Alabama.”
Brown’s comments come as Democrats wrestle with whether support for abortion rights should be a requirement for candidates to get party backing.
Brown in his Sunday interview said Democrats must rise “above the more particular issues to the generic” if they want to govern and ideologically and ethnically diverse country.
“So I’d say, look, even on the abortion issue, it wasn’t very long ago that a number of Catholic Democrats were opposed to abortion. So the fact that somebody believes today what most people believed 50 years ago should not be the basis for their exclusion,” Brown explained.
“In America, we’re not ideological. We’re not like a Marxist party in 1910. We are big tent by the very definition. We’re not ideological in the European sense of what political parties used to be. Even in Europe now, they don’t have that same ideological purity.”
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The Democratic party in California is far worse under the surface than the image they try to portray. Like a communist state having only one party, a single communist party, the California Democratic Super Majority in the state government, is effectively a single in control communist party able to impose whatever unjustified laws on its citizens the Commucratic Party (for a better name) wishes to impose. They are the party of special-interest groups that support the demise of society: pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-illegal immigration by defying federal laws, pro-LGBTQ dimise of our once christian-family orientated society, pro-gender self-identification and other forms of like insanity, anti-business, pro-tax-tax-tax,…
Intelligence! DEMOCRATS!! HA HA HA HA HA.
Too late, Jerry, we were kicked out a long time ago, and your good friend, Hilary Clinton, was one of the first to start it by trashing Governor Casey Sr. . Yet no Democrat will admit why she lost. Elephants never forget, and elephants are faithful one hundred per cent. Ask Dr. Suess.