And cannot be bought

By the all that is naught

Of the PUMAbots.

Thank you Madame senator.

With kindest regards, Klytus

Just as I expected.

You know, sometimes you're adorable.

has been beyond reproach, since her moment of concession.

She is a class act. Before that, there were times, but not since.

She is not at fault for any of the bad acts of her followers. However, and let's be clear, she still will bear responsibility. That puts her into a very difficult situation: If the Hillary follower people screw up, she will be blamed, even though she has done everything she can.

I certainly hope that her supporters do not damage her future prospects.

Her and her old man.

I agree with you 100% that Hillary was utterly phenomenal last night and has been working somewhat to unify the party after licking her wounds. She is now doing what she can to unify and I love her for that.

Having said that, she is at least partly responsible for many of her supporters being in this frenzy. She knew she lost back in the beginning of March - everyone who can do math knew she couldn't win just by winning primaries. She either had to run the table with 60% margins of victory, or to drive up Obama's negatives and whip up her ardent supporters to the point where he would have been unelectable in the GE, forcing the Super Delegates to step in and overturn the pledged delegates. She made a choice in March to run the kind of campaign that could have only resulted in the bitter and hurt feelings of her supporters and the divisiveness that causes.

I'm not trying to poke anyone in the eye - I was an early Bill Clinton supporter in 91 and have loved them both ever since. But I was disappointed by the choice she made in March and watched her in dismay until recently.

I am a die-hard Democrat first and fore most, so for me I was going to vote for the nominee no matter what and expect nothing less from my fellow Dems.

There is something really Orwellianly weird about celebrating women's right to freely vote and then pressuring women to vote the way the democratic party prefers.

Then there is this PUMA thing where women who choose to speak their minds are labeled as mentally, intellectually and emotionally defective for doing so.

Unlike men who seem to be able to vote any way they want without it being a cause for them to be labeled as hysterical banshees.

Then there is the issue of deriding the same women for months on end and completely expecting them to turn around on a dime and do your voter bidding. Why ever would they?

Then there is Hillary Clinton-- and likely Bill tonight too-- showing us what it means to be charismatically presidential and able to effortlessly connect ideology and policy and then sitting this one out to defer to a paint by numbers hologram who fully expects us to vote for a marketing concept with all the depth of the average bumper-sticker.

Hillary had to do the Good Democrat Girl thing to,in effect, kick off her 2012 campaign.

She did this by telling us to vote for the issues, not the candidate.

But, realistically, that is not going to happen.

People don't elect issues, they elect candidates.

McCain will win this, Obamabot bloggers notwithstanding, because out on Main Street Obama is already rejected as just an update of more of nothing there.

People perceive him as one more of another entitled, remote, opportunistically agendized narcissist about to let a grown up Vice president do his work for him.

Been there done that for the past eight years.

Oh, well.

Maybe McCain can bring this all the way up to a mediocrity and then we can vote for Hillary in 2012. A number about to become ubiquitously iconic.

Obama will be out of the electable picture after we get over the extent of his losing numbers.

Bloggers like Klytus can make delusional wish-fulfillment a reason to be round the clock blogging, but obviously these bloggers don't get out much into small towns or they'd be aware of how ludicriously short of their objective their insular reality of this election is going to be. November will be such a crash and burn for them.It's almost enough make you pity the ridiculous spectacle they've made of themselves.

If you are apolitical and will be voting only very slightly informed, what you've got is a choice between a grown-up vice president buttressing Obama as the King of Pop figurehead on the ship of state or a very similar to an uninterested eye Presidential Candidate .

Mccain's forte is being personable and relatable. While Obama is beginning to give new meaning to the term resident alien.

Which do you think a nation that would rather have voted for Dubyous Bush twice (think about that one) than identify with Dean or Kerry once is going to prefer?

Now all the Obamabots can start foaming the keyboard, but it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that vote.

And, sweetie, it don't.

And it won't.

Let me be the first in advance to say I told you so.

You would never have manipulated a delegate count like tonight's if Obama was really able to carry it off.

Who did you think your fooling?

By doing that, all l you've done si laid out this foreshortened bullying as a palpable weakness to the centerpiece of the convention.

For me, and millions of other newly declared Independents, the convention is over the moment Bill Clinton steps off the stage tonight.

Why do I need to be a loyal democrat?

When was the last time Democrats were loyal to those of us who aren't buying what they're pitching at this strident sales convention.

If they really had any power to affect change, why didn't they do anything about George Bush for the past eight years?

I'll be at the movies tomorrow.

I'll be writing in Hillary in November.

-gala1