Left concern about HRC is NOT "hatred"...it's about what we stand for as a party and a country

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349. We're only discussing opinions here.

If HRC gets the nomination, she gets my vote.

But...

While you might be willing to give a pass on that interview, it represents an underlined, bolded warning that HRC has always been something of a hawk (and that IS in the record). Given how bad hawks have been representing our interests in the Middle East over the past decade, I want to hear a LOT more at this point before giving my support in a primary.

That's how it is supposed to work, right? We get a primary! Well, maybe not when it comes down to it. When I refer to as a "coronation" it is a shorthand for inevitability and that isn't just a statistical analysis. Most primary slates are negotiated by the leadership in advance anyway. Let's be completely straightforward about this -- endorsements are essentially statements of surrender in an election and you can't vote for someone who isn't running. That makes an endorsement something with value, and anything with value can be bought for the right price.

So it is actually pointless for you to worry about it. Given the number major potential challengers who have all made their endorsements already, it appears certain that HRC will get the nomination, and based on the "lesser of two evils" approach to elections she will get my vote.

I'm cynical you say? Bill's biography was wonderful but it underlined the point that what we see from a candidate in the media is a "stage persona" and not the real deal. When the doors close, he said, everyone is a bit more serious. To hear Bill talk, it's all about deals and is a great bit less ideological than your typical DU'er would like to admit. My favorite bit in the book? Where the GOP leadership approached Governor Clinton with both a carrot and a stick: "We like you and we know you'll win. We want this election though. Don't run, we'll help you in next time and make your life easy. Run and we'll destroy you."

Had Governor Clinton simply issued an endorsement and waited his turn, think of the implications about how much different the 90's might have been.

But it does make my use of the word "coronation" one that is not random. It describes the parallel process that we tend to ignore.