Precedent Is A Factor In Determining Who Would Make The Best Presidential Nominee For The Democratic Party

Precedent is a roadmap and record that can be used to accurately predict the out come of some action, initiative, issue or policy.  This writer used precedent in a commentary here in "PolitiDose after Obama was elected President to predict that because Obama was a democrat, the economy, job creation and lower unemployment would happen in a recovery on his watch.

That commentary was made because precedent had shown that democratic administrations perform better and that precedent goes back for over 50 years.  Precedent can also be used to predict failure.  Example:  Republicans talk a good game about balancing the federal budget but has failed to do so since President Eisenhower accomplished the feat in 1960.  The republican precedent of trickle down economic tax cuts can count on failure to balance the budget and their present Presidential candidates are still trying to sell it.  The last republican President George W. Bush got caught in past republican precedent and failed to balance one budget in his 8 years in office even though President Clinton left office with balanced budgets and surpluses.

Precedent now tells this writer that Hillary Clinton would make the best democratic nominee for President.  She has a record to run on and a party to back her up who knows how to get the job done.  Senator Sanders is a independent and the precedent for independents and or third party candidates for President have not turned out well.  That is probably why Sanders is running in the democratic primaries and trying to win the democratic nomination.  But winning the nomination would still not make Sanders a democrat and his voting record in congress for over 25 years does not match the progressive record of the democratic party.

Precedent is clearly on the side of Hillary Clinton being the best choice to be the democratic party's Presidential nominee for the 2016 election.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio