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LWolf

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88. Here's a deal for ya:

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:21 AM

Apr 2015

When you and others trying to tell me that HRC is inevitable, that she's somehow the great liberal/progressive hope, that she's everything sugar and spice, I'll stop explaining why she doesn't have my support, and won't have my support.

It's that simple. If people aren't promoting her, I have nothing to say about her at all.

Meanwhile, I'm hoping Sanders will announce, so I'll have a reason to be involved, at least in the primaries. When the GE rolls around in another 18 months or so, unless some miracle occurs, I will simply plug some key words in to be hidden, and hope to find something of substance on issues to discuss that is not about promoting HRCs positions because she's campaigning. Which means I'll spend less time at DU, just as I did in '12 and '08.

That's what a campaign is about, isn't it? Campaigning AGAINST the opposition? That's what hanging out at DU during campaign seasons have taught me, anyway.

Why do you want her opposition within her own party to silence themselves about WHY they oppose her?

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Well, JD. sheshe2 Apr 2015 #71

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You sure got that right! Andy823 Apr 2015 #50

+1 treestar Apr 2015 #51

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...how about instead of attacking the people who arent on board with HRC Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #11

I haven't attacked anyone in my OP. Cali_Democrat Apr 2015 #20

I'm just making a sort of general suggestion, as are you! Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #23

fair enough Cali_Democrat Apr 2015 #37

I really did not see this as an attack. Raine1967 Apr 2015 #40

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Maybs some are chronic complainers, Thinkingabout Apr 2015 #18

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Hopeless LondonReign2 Apr 2015 #97

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Barbara Lee! clg311 Apr 2015 #68

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