Please quit threatening to not vote, or vote for a third party candidate!

[PoliticalMalcontent]

178. I appreciate your post, CajunBlazer. I really do.

I may end up holding my nose to vote if I have to, but I may not.

I have a distrust of Hillary Clinton for various reasons which I won't rehash here. I'm disappointed by how the democratic party have coalesced around her before anybody else had thrown their hat into the ring, mostly because she's been running for President for 8+ years now and made nice with insiders for literally decades. To me, a vote for Hillary would be rewarding Debbie Wasserman Schultz for limiting exposure to other candidates through limiting and burying debates. Is that a coincidence? Perhaps, but DWS was a co-chair of the Clinton campaign in '08.

The only thing I can think to do in a situation where I have no suitable candidate is to not vote. I've never 'held my nose' to vote before. I've never had to. Hillary and I don't share the same values, and that is a problem. On the plus side I'd have much more confidence with her at the helm than any Republican candidate and those probable supreme court picks are extremely valuable.

I feel that Clinton would fare worse in the general as people just wouldn't be excited to vote for her and that could translate to congress and governorship losses. Republicans (and some independents) would LOVE to get a chance to vote AGAINST Clinton.

Anyway... I fear the outcome of the next election and I'm putting a lot of the blame on DWS and the democratic party for tilting the odds in Clinton's favor.