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

[Yo_Mama]

93. I sometimes send money to candidates I want in the primaries even

if I know that they will not be the eventual nominee. That's because I want them in the primaries because there are things they are saying that need to be heard and I believe will change the nominee's priorities.

There is a lot of simplistic thinking about.

I think the absolute worse outcome of a Hillary candidacy could be that we don't have others running - not necessarily, but if it happened it would really hurt the Dem party. So I don't buy this trope that supporting another candidate or even trying to get another candidate to run in the primaries is betrayal, treason or Hillary-hatred, and I think anyone that does push this stuff is a bit politically naive.

The primaries provide a feed-back system for the party as a whole. It tells the eventual nominee what's important to the voters. In this era of top-down party bureaucracies, the primaries have become far more important to generate a winning party platform and to sustain the party as a whole.

If you WANT Hillary to run, and truly believe that Hillary will be the best possible nominee and win over the GOP-whoever, you should be looking to build a good base of primary contenders.

We got a two-term winning candidate from a wide-open primary in 2008, and I truly believe the primaries helped the president win and helped him craft a winning campaign agenda.