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Meldread

(4,213 posts)
6. No, I'm with both Savage and Signorile.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 04:02 PM
Feb 2016

Savage is absolutely right that it goes against our political interests to hold Hillary responsible for her past actions. We worked hard to move people from the position she held to the position that she holds today. Whether she moved because of a political calculation or moral reasons is not relevant. What matters is that she is on our side now.

You could argue that it speaks to her character that she was likely making cynical political calculations, but as Dan Savage points out in his article, Bernie Sanders was doing the same thing. That is what politicians do. It is political malpractice for us to shoot down people who have "reformed" themselves to stand strongly with us on the issues as both Hillary and Bernie Sanders do now.

Then as Michelangelo Signorile pointed out in an article he wrote a couple weeks ago, our focus should be on what promises they are making right now, and they should be judged on what they want to do for us in the future. Both of them have tried to "justify" their past positions on marriage equality, and obscure their past from us--if not rewrite it entirely. What matters is that they both are with us now.

Thus, how I am judging the candidates based on the issues is two-fold. First, who seems to be most concerned about our issues, and is making promises that we can hold them too in the future. Second, who is most likely to work most effectively from the White House to further our issues both in the Congress as well as Nationwide by taking on Governors and State Legislatures.

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