Howard Dean claims that Hillary is our best bet for 2016. I disagree.

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61. Howard Dean is not only entitled to his opinion, but because of the position he has earned,

he is entitled to publish it in a major newspaper.

I am also entitled to my opinion, as are you, but I can't publish my opinion in a major newspaper so I post it on DU.

And you are welcome to post your opinions on DU too.

Actually, my OP does express my opinion, but I back it up with a lot of facts. Takes some work, but Google is our friend. I could have used a much wider variety of sources and written an even longer, more detailed and stronger case.

I hope that as a Hillary supporter, you will post a rebuttal to my OP.

I'm waiting for that.

I think the argument that Hillary will be able to work more effectively with Republicans is specious, worthless. There is utterly no evidence to back it up.

In fact, I can think of no figure living today who is more despised by Republicans than Hillary Clinton. I don't understand that, but it may be because she was once the president of her college Republican club, a staunch Goldwater, conservative Republican and the Republicans feel she betrayed them. That is just a guess.

At any rate, even Obama has not yet been called before a federal grand jury, presumably by Republican operatives. Hillary has.

I would say that the idea that Hillary can work better with Republicans than Sanders can is ludicrous but then I would have to apologize for being overly emotional in my response.

Bernie is just our best candidate, maybe our best candidate ever.

It's not my fault. And Hillary is not the worst ever. She just isn't as good as Bernie. She really isn't as good a candidate as we need to win.