# Hillary Clinton supporters switching to McCain/Palin -- why?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-supporters-switching-to-mccain-palin-why/464335 "2008-09-19T17:18:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-supporters-switching-to-mccain-palin-why/464335/61 "2008-09-21T12:09:58Z")

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Executive experience is a result of making a comparative list and having nothing at the bottom. Economic philosophy is important. A hands off approach to wall street has been a flawed economic approach since Reagan. That was Bush . That is McCain. If you think running the economy into the ground looks good on your resume, give it top billing. We have executive experience in running a stupid and unfair system. Vote for us. We are experienced in taking the power from the people. Vote for us. We know how to give tax breaks to companies that move their operation abroad. Vote for us. We know how to give tax breaks to the rich. Vote for us. We know how to loot the system .  
If that is executive experience ,I will pass.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-supporters-switching-to-mccain-palin-why/464335/62 "2008-09-21T23:43:36Z")

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> [@RickJay](#):
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> Dude, in a POW camp, the prisoners aren’t in charge.

Not overall, but there is still military discipline and a rank structure even among them. A POW doesn’t stop being in the military, in fact that’s the core of what he can hold onto. They look to their own ranking leaders to provide them leadership, in whatever form that can take. Stockdale’s memoirs are very much worth reading on that point.

Hell, just look at how Colonel Klink kept control of Stalag 13 in large part by working through Colonel Hogan.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-supporters-switching-to-mccain-palin-why/464335/63 "2008-09-21T23:46:55Z")

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> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#):
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> I notice Stockdale never broke and gave the North Vietnamese a propaganda confession, unlike a certain other POW.

A relative tells me that a former POW he knows (yes, I know, bear with me), who was held along with McCain, hates him with a deep passion even now, not only for doing that but for what he says was a broader pattern of collaboration.

FWIW.

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