I Would Like Someone Other That Hillary Clinton As Our Nominee... That Makes Me A Hillary Hater ???

[SheilaT]

62. Unfortunately, most Hillary supporters here

can be pretty vicious towards anyone who does not bow down to The Inevitability of Hillary. While that doesn't necessarily make them assholes, it does make them astonishingly intolerant. In 2008 her supporters stuck with her well after it was clear that Obama had the nomination, and they (her supporters) didn't care at all that they were dividing the party to the point where if we lost the Presidency, they just didn't care. PUMAs, remember? Party Unity My Ass. I fear it will be even worse this time around.

In '08 all those who questioned The Inevitability of Hillary were cast as ignorant Hillary haters who did not understand that Now Was Her Time, and anyone who stood in the way of the tide of history would be drowned in the Hillary flood. I keep on wanting to pretend I was kidnapped by aliens, or went into a coma at the end of 2007, and now that I'm back/awake, I'm eager to find out what wondrous things Hillary has wrought, since she must surely be in her second term by now.

What I find truly horrifying by those who don't question that Hillary will of course be the candidate, is that they just don't get her corporate connections, they don't understand that she is completely out of touch with the regular middle class, let alone the working and poor classes, and how much she is truly hated by the other side. People will blithely brush aside that last, saying that she's bullet-proof because she went through that all before, and so nothing can be thrown against her. Yeah? Not only will they (the Republicans) bring up everything they brought up before, but now there's Benghazi! You think the Swift Boaters did a number on Kerry? That will look like a love fest in comparison.

If I thought Hillary Clinton really were our best choice, I'd be working on supporting her, but she's not our best choice. She's a tired re-run from eight years ago.

I find it revealing that at this point neither political party has anyone new being touted as a Presidential candidate, other than Jeb Bush for the Republicans -- and he's a brother and son of Presidents -- and Elizabeth Warren, who repeatedly says she's not a candidate. The Republicans are moving further and further to the right, in response to their own extremists, while the Democratic Party for the most part is just following them.