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In reply to the discussion: Dear supporters of Hillary Clinton 2016.... [View all]UTUSN
(77,795 posts)Although I'm not clear who you mean by "her" as in "promise to support her." Do you mean Hillary CLINTON or Senator WARREN?
Everybody's got pluses and minuses. I love almost all Dems, and for me just about any Dem is better than ALL/ANY Rethugs. And I admire WARREN, but my caveat is her abrasiveness. Again NEEDLESS TO SAY, I will support any Dem nominee from whatever wing, and I'll say that if it's WARREN I will be enthusiastic, despite the harder odds against her.
My bottom line is: Who CAN WIN. I've had way past my share of NOBLE LOSERS. They are beautiful to behold, but it's the Dem agenda that counts and NOTHING can be accomplished without WINNING. Even a pisspoor Dem who WINS has impact on nominating judges and policy bureaucrats for decades to come.
But since this is your position: "The Democratic Party will have a rude awakening if they back another conservative corporatist pretending to have liberal values." -- you and I will never be on the same page, and not because *I* am a "conservative corporatist pretending to have liberal values." Cafeteria-Voters are why Rethugs can win/steal.