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In reply to the discussion: How come Hillary supporters can't present an argument for her? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)We get it, already--this poster doesn't like HRC. And foot-stomping OP after OP will be started, until everyone knows it!!!!!
I would suggest that the poster just not vote for her if he or she feels that way, instead of badgering people who don't agree with her.
It's like Fight Club up in here some days.
Doesn't matter if you point to HRC's experience, her record, her ability to achieve consensus, her powerhouse debating and fundraising skills, her connections, the fact that she knows--PERSONALLY-- every frigging world leader by first name and has pressed the flesh and broken bread with them, and probably has the biggest players on her cellphone speed dial...that's not enough. Whatever you say, it's never enough. She's baaaaaaad....because a keyboarder sez so!
And we should nominate someone who is completely unproven, untested, with no international or other experience, because...because...PROGRESSIVE!!! PROGRESSIVE!!! Even when people don't know the stances of these mystery candidates on most of the issues, because they have no record of working those issues. I think it would shock a lot of people to learn that Elizabeth Warren (who isn't running) opposes legalization of marijuana, for example. But that's the truth.
Nominating someone who doesn't appeal to the vast majority of Democratic voters--and I mean the people who actually vote our ticket, not the ones who talk a good fight and then go waste their franchise on Ralph Nader or Jill Stein--will ensure eight long years of Chris "Blowhard" Christie. Fortunately, we as a party aren't stupid anymore--gone are the days of "Impossible Dreams" and tilting at windmills. And good thing, too.