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In reply to the discussion: How long until the Hillary haters on DU start talking about "Benghazi!!!!" [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)If you read, say, Game Change, you will see that he wasn't really the out-of-nowhere candidacy that he seemed to be. He had powerful supporters from the beginning. Besides, there's no Obama this time. Obama had already declared at this point in 2007. Obviously, nothing is certain, but the odds are pretty heavily in her favor. Pretending that this is like 2007 is willful ignorance. Nobody is shoving Hillary down your throat, it's just a fact that she is by far the most likely candidate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/upshot/hillary-clinton-and-inevitability-this-time-is-different.html?_r=0
And, yes, it's completely irrational to think Clinton is going to be as bad as a Republican, and to decide not to vote in the GE for that reason. The analogy of yours leaves out the general election. It would be as if a few people didn't like fish, but fish won the primary, and in the GE, the choice is between fish and rat poison, and the people say there's no difference and that they refuse to vote for fish because they hate fish so much, and they don't care what happens.
It's also completely irrational to consider the fact that some of her donors have HSBC accounts, or where her campaign headquarters are going to be as knocks on her. And if you missed those, don't worry, there will be 10 new idiotic Hillary-hating threads tomorrow.