Letters to the Editor

• to ProudTexasGirl and other Hillary supporters

  [Read the article: Will the Democrats flop in Denver?]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  I've decided to become part of the 27% and growing number of Obama supporters that will NOT vote for Hillary if she wins the nomination.

  For three reasons specifically:

  1) I live in a blue state, so my vote probably won't make a difference anyway. I will vote for the Green Party candidate. I understand that if every Obama supporter feels the way I do in November, MD won't be a blue state anymore, but I'm willing to play those odds.

  2) If Obama makes it to the convention with more states won, as the popular vote leader, and as the leader in pledged delegates and we come out of the convention with Hillary as the Democratic nominee, it will mean that the superdelegates, while acting within the rules, essentially negated the entire primary process. They will have wasted taxpayers' time and money with 8 months of primaries and caucuses when they could have just named Clinton the nominee back in January and been done with it. Even more insulting, they will have essentially said that African American voters, long the bedrock of the modern Democratic party are not valued and their voices are not to be respected, unless they vote the way party insiders want. No Democratic president since the 60's has been elected by a majority of white votes. The Democratic party needs African American votes to win and they will have thrown those votes out of the window under the delusion that African American voters have no where else to go. Meanwhile, McCain is down in Selma, AL trying to make inroads with black voters who recognize how badly Hillary and the Democratic party have treated them this election.

  3) Just like Joan and others are turned off by over-zealous, and over-fawning Obama supporters, after reading Salon's letters pages regularly and reading Joan and Rebecca Traister's articles and posts and reading the articles that Joan has headlined, I am absolutely disgusted by the moral, logical and ethical contortions Hillary supporters are willing to do to continue to argue for why she should be the nominee (so now Obama is an elitist and a racist?!). No Hillary supporter that I've come across on these pages is willing to intelligently discuss how Hillary could legitimately win the nomination without alienating the majority of voters who want Obama to be the nominee. No one is willing to at least objectively look at how damaging this primary season has been to the chances of a Democrat winning in November, no matter who the nominee is. Instead, as an Obama supporter, I can expect to be insulted, belittled, and berated. Not one Hillary supporter has at least acknowledged the irony in claiming that by not counting FL and MI votes, we are subverting the democratic process, while at the same time hoping that the superdelegates overturn the votes of any democrat who didn't vote for Clinton.

  Hillary and her supporters have made it their mission to tear down and destroy a candidate who agrees with Clinton on 98% of their issues and who is the Democrats best hope for winning in November. No Hillary supporter is willing to intelligently discuss why it is that Hillary's unfavorability ratings keep climbing, why her trustworthy-ness keeps dropping, why she keeps slipping in the spread between her and McCain, and why she has repeatedly lied (I'm sorry Joan, mis-spoke), and pandered to anyone if it will get her a vote.

  So good job Hillary and keep up the good work Hillary supporters. And for the record, if she isn't the nominee but does a good enough job destroying Obama so that he loses the general, I will work even harder than I have for Obama this year to make sure that she is NOT the nominee in 2012.

  Hillary supporters, do you really think that I'm alone in feeling this way? Are you willing to keep playing those odds?

  Permalink Thursday, April 24, 2008 07:52 AM