Of the seeming dozen aging posts of mine you went through to respond to last night, I’m going to choose this one to respond to. I wouldn’t entirely agree with this characterization. The Democrats, right now, better represent the positions and type of leadership that I want. They aren’t close to perfectly representing them, and I am pretty damn disappointed with most of the ones in congress, after the hope I had from 2006. They seem to do nothing but capitulate to the Republicans.
I wouldn’t vote for a person “regardless” of how they got on the ballot, but I just haven’t heard much to suggest that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been as evil as Obama’s supporters think she’s been. At the same time, they are extremely dismissive of the things that Obama has done, either to Clinton, or in terms of making appeals to conservatives using conservative themes and phrasing.Again, I just don’t get how awful, how “Rovian”, Clinton has been. As I’m willing to vote for Obama despite his running to the right and disparaging the success of the Democrats in the 90’s, so too am I willing to vote for Clinton (despite her taking a more centrist approach in her voting and positions over recent years).
If people want to vote for a Republican candidate because they don’t want to vote for Hillary Clinton, are they also willing to vote for what this will do to the overall politics of the next four years? Do they want a president who will be working to support the Republicans in congress? Who will be able to move the Democrats away from more progressive policies through his threat of the veto? It’s almost like people who think that they will vote for McCain over Clinton think that McCain will dictate what the Republicans do rather than the other way around.
I apologize for the tardy replies, I’m new around here and I thought a week wasn’t too old but I can see the pace is kinda fast around here.
I am not yet at the point where I would vote for McCain over Hillary but she is reinforcing a lot of negative impressions I have about her. She seems frustrated that she’s not winning.