If not Hillary, then who?

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131. I didn't read OmahaBlueDog's post as something positive about the Tea Party.

Instead, what I interpreted from the post was that to the extent a party ignores the middle (as the Tea Party has done by embracing only very conservative candidates on the far right), they run the risk that their party's candidate will lose the Presidency (case in point, Romney). As OmahaBlueDog has argued in this thread, choosing not to support the Democratic candidate for President, even if she or he is not your preferred choice, risks a worse outcome. Of course, each of us is free to vote our conscience and to make that choice purely on principle, but it's also fair to point out that if a sizeable number of progressives feel that way and don't vote for a more moderate candidate, like Hillary Clinton should she become the nominee, we may lose the Presidency to the Republicans in 2016, an election year that could result in the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress.