Letters to the Editor
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Who do Republicans want as our nominee?
DUH!!!!!!!!!
It's the only landslide she can win - Republicans wanting her instead of Obama in the general. I was in Orlando for a convention last week (the one the Fed Chairman spoke at) and listened on Ohio/Texas tuesday to conservative talk radio in my rental car. Laura Ingraham's show had a call from U.S. Air Force officers at Eisenhower AFB in San Antonio bragging about how they had just come back from voting for HRC in the open Texas primary: laughs all around.
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Oh please.
Not only do I know several dozen people at least who'll be voting for Nader or McCain if Clinton steals the nomination, a least a dozen of those people have already threatened to go to Denver and start throwing bricks if the supers break against the pledged delegate vote.
Fortunately, it'll never come to that. The supers are politicians. They have no interest in committing party suicide for the sake of the Clintons' ambitions. Sen. Obama is our nominee, as anyone even slightly good at math can tell you.
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November
No offense, but who cares who the GOP would rather face. The issue is who we Democrats want as our nominee. Republicans have screwed up so badly that any Democrat can win in November.
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Democrats need to stop snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
I am so completely sick and tired of reading about Democrats who will vote for McCain if their favored candidate - Clinton or Obama isn't the nominee. Are these people willing to cut of their nose to spite their face or do you just not have a clue?
Obama and Clinton are nearly identical in their positions on just about everything. A choice between Obama and Clinton is a choice for whose style you like better and who you believe is most likely to get the job done. There are valid arguments for supporting either candidate, but if you want to argue platforms, there are slim pickings between choosing one or the other. McCain on the other hand is a hard core Conservative Republic who has pledged to continue Bush's policies. That would be the policies that 70% to 85% (depending on the poll) consider wrong! How earth can Democrats be so suicidal as to think that who they select is really going to mean the difference between a McCain winning and loosing. Clinton and Obama both will provide plenty of fodder for the Republican hate machine, but it doesn't change the fact that McCain is running as W Part 2 and that only the nutty remains of the core of the GOP (15%-30% of the population on a good day) actually think that is a selling point.
McCain stands for every thing Democrats oppose, tax breaks for the rich, anti-choice, corporate-welfare, war, war and more war, putting Conservative judges on the bench, warrentless wiretapping, and most importantly sweeping the criminal behavior of the Bush adminstration under the rug.
I am an Obama supporter, and it would sadden me greatly if Clinton gets the nomination. But there is no way in hell that I will be voting for anyone other than a Democrat. If we can all realize what is at stake here, the race will not even be close.
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It's pretty obvious the GOP would rather face Clinton
Not that it's by any means a lock that McCain would beat Clinton in November, but that matchup caters to McCain's and the GOP's wishes far more than having to face Obama. Clinton's negative campaigning against Obama has already turned off the new young voters and Independents that he has reeled in since Iowa and that certainly won't change if she insists on prolonging it for another 7 weeks. Obama thus far hasn't pointed to a host of dirty money fundraising scandals connected back to the Clinton machine that took place all through the '90's, but McCain won't hesitate at all to provide a detailed account of Mark Rich and the other unsavory characters that have been somehow forgotten (I suspect only temporarily and deliberately) by most of the media during this primary season.
A previous poster pointed to Clinton's dissaproval rate near 50%. If her campaign tactics continue along the low road she's chosen to take for any prolonged length of time, that number isn't going down and very well could go even higher. The traditional Democratic base by itself won't win the general election and Clinton might not even have that completely intact after the convention in the event she was still in the picture by then. Anybody who's had the chance to drive through the southern states that has had to listen to countless talk radio programs would attest to how nearly all of them seem to promote to it's listeners that another Clinton Presidency equates to the coming Apocalypse. While it's unreal and largely defies any rational bearing, it's unfortunately a reality that won't go away as long as Clinton continues to stick around. Even if she managed to get past McCain, there's a fair chance the resulting hangover would be a reinvigorated Republican Party able to climb back to even strength in voters and fundraising. That prospect alone makes me tempted to go to Obama's website and contribute my entire tax return.
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@lolcait - I'm FROM Florida
and without a REDO it damn well better NOT Count! There was hardly anybody at my precinct that day and you're dreaming if you think Hillary's landslide 'win' in Florida is representative of what it would be like if there was an actual PRIMARY - DUH.
I would be absolutely FURIOUS is she tries this tactic.
I can't tell you who would come out the winner but i can tell you this with certainty: it would be a lot closer than Hillary wants/needs.
I have been reasonable all along (as my letters will attest) and have always said I will vote for whomever is on the ticket for the dems this time around. But THIS trying to count delegates of a contest that was not contested would absolutely take the cake and is probably very closely the ONLY thing that might give me pause before voting for Hillary in November should she somehow emerge as the leader. I am a lifelong indie who didn't bother to change registration b/c Florida's votes were deemed 'unimportant' this past summer by the DNC. Note that I plan to vote dem in the general and if given the chance to change my registration for a redo in Florida I will do so and vote for Obama.
If you're a true Hillary supporter you should be calling for what's fair and square realizing that underhanded tactics that change the rules mid-game are not doing any good to anyone, including her.