So I'm going to be a total hypocrite right now and say that even if you like Hillary more than Obama... there's just no way. I am the kind of person who likes to see underdogs fight, even if it's a losing battle (see Nader post) and I also like the idea that politics is about morality and not about numbers; however, the political positions between Obama and Hillary are not so great that it should prevent Hillary supporters from being realistic. Hillary is disliked by many on the left and HATED by most all of the moderate to right voters.
Door #1
Hillary wins the Democratic nomination and the left votes for Nader or maybe stays home.
Others vote FOR McCain or maybe vote AGAINST Hillary.
McCain wins handily. We have someone better than Bush, but not much.
Door #2
Obama wins the Democratic nomination and Hillary supporters vote for someone politically similar to Hillary but with much better political morals.
Obama wins handily. We have someone left of insanity for a change.
Admittedly, either of these doors will lead to a place better than the last 7 years. And admittedly, Hillary supporters will go down fighting for the first woman to be president. Unfortunately though, that's not how it will spin from the right. Hillary will go down in flames as a symbol of what is wrong with Uhmerikah; the left. It will be a referendum on how left policies and left politics are a failure. What this country needs now is to remember that Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Voting Rights (broadly conceived of), Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the FDA, the FCC, the SEC, the FDIC and so many others thought to be generally good for the welfare of America's citizens are all the result of left politics.
In short, a vote for Hillary is a vote against the left. Case in point: Rush Limbaugh's "operation chaos."
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I'll agree whole hartedly with this post. I think so many supporters of Hillary are either just after the novelty of a woman running or they're simply too dumb to realize that if Bush, Jr taught us anything its that we shouldn't be so naive as to bestow an air/heir of entitlement on the office of the White House. I mean hell... aint that why we left Europe in the first place?... and we're willing to set it all up again - right to rule by birthright or something? Wow.
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