In case you were wondering, I AM NOT A FREEPER.

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253. Here's the difference -

Four to eight years of a Scott Walker, a Paul Ryan, a Rand Paul or a Chris Christie will be MUCH harder to recover from than an equal amount of time of a "Repub-lite" Hillary Presidency.

I'll grant that Hillary will do very little to push the nation leftwards, but she'll do far less than any of the above-named, or any of their cronies, to push us farther to the right.

Given that the Koch's billions WILL BE heavily involved in this election, you don't think they're gonna spend ALL that sweet green on getting REPUBLICANS to vote their way, do you? Hardly, bono ... those votes are already in the bag! That cash will be directed at winning over the Independent and Democratic voters. If a Bernie Sanders or a Liz Warren is able give Hillary a good primary battle, I would not be at all surprised to see Ms. Clinton benefiting from Koch largesse, just so NEITHER party's candidate is a real progressive.

And even if all they can accomplish is making sure that whoever the Republican candidate might be, that person runs against Hillary, they've essentially won (although they won't be satisfied.) They'd do BETTER with a right-wing puppet as POTUS, but they'll certainly continue to do as well as they are now under Clinton II.