Hillary The Nader?
So apparently somewhere between 11% and 27% of Hillary supporters during the primary are planning to vote for McCain.
I think she shares more than some small measure of responsibility in this. For one thing she continued her campaign long after it became mathematically impossible for her to win, and at great continued expense. How difficult is it to understand that you don’t spend money you don’t have? Plus as I’ve mentioned at length her campaign got much nastier that anyone else’s. She crossed the line repeatedly and exactly as I predicted the Republicans have been using clips of her negativity in their ads.
Now Debra Bartoshevich, a “Proud Hillary Clinton Democrat” and former DNC delegate, is appearing in an ad for McCain.
What does this tell us? Well by not supporting the person who agreed with Hillary 95% of the time and instead supporting someone who agreed with her rarely they are showing that they are not issues voters; and as a logical extension of that never supported Hillary because of her policies or beliefs. Maybe they were caught up in her cult of personality, maybe they just wanted a woman, or maybe they thought she somehow deserved it. Whatever the misguided reason, now they are clearly voting out of spite – either that or the only thing they care about is so-called experience. But given that McCain has more experience than Hillary I daresay that’s a false reason being provided to excuse their inexcusable betrayal of what Hillary believed in and fought for.
But then again Hillary hasn’t been doing very much to counter this. Perhaps she never cared about her issues either, maybe she felt she deserved it or just wanted a woman to win. For example if Debra truly was a “Proud Hillary Clinton Democrat” could ol’ Hillary just give her a call and tell her to knock it off? Either Hillary tacitly approves of this behaviour or Hillary isn’t Debra’s hero despite her claims to the contrary.
Someone is lying, or at the very least obfuscating; maybe a few someones. This morning I saw McCain break one of the convention etiquette rules by campaigning during the other party’s convention. He appeared at a high school and brought some heartthrob with him to hug the high school girls. And McCain’s the one blasting Obama for celebrity status and connections? The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
Hillary’s efforts to minimize this have been, well, minimal. Hillary’s response to the ad that uses her name and her campaign placard to attack the democratic presidential nominee? “I’m Hillary Clinton and did not approve this message”.
Wow. I mean, it’s mildly funny but it’s damn near the very least she could do.
If she somehow manages to turn the tide against the democrats how can she ever have a serious future in politics? She’s already alienated the Republicans, although they’re not above using her if it suits their purposes, and now she stands poised to sabotage and alientate the democrats by handing them another loss through her prior actions and current inaction.
