Mickey Mouse. I don’t particularly like McCain, and I wouldn’t vote for Hillary if she was the only thing stopping us from Bush III.
I’ve emailed the DNC several times to tell them I’m an independent and I’ll vote for McCain over Clinton as will nearly all men in the same demographic.
I’ve thought long and hard about this, since I’m in the swing state of Missouri. If I were in a solidly blue state, I would definitely not vote for her. I’d write in someone else, maybe even my cat Seymour, because he’s a bad*ss dude. However, since our older supreme court justices are not getting any younger, I may hold my nose, and choke back my vomit, and vote for Hillary. I won’t put up any yard signs for her, send her $$ or help with the campaign though. I’ll also switch my party affiliation to independent.
I despise Clinton, but she has a lot more positions in common with me than McCain does. That said, I will not be remotely enthusiastic or energetic about getting an absentee ballot this year (since I go to college over 100 miles away from my polling place) if I have to mark her name on the ballot.
If Hillary manages to win by winning the popular vote then I’ll vote for Hillary although such an outcome is near impossible for her barring an Obama implosion.
If she wins by brokering a back room deal to have the super delegates vote her in despite losing the popular vote I will either vote for McCain or abstain…not sure yet.
Are you actually saying that no one misrepresents, or has misrepresented, their policy positions? I just want to clarify before I get too excited for having read the most insane thing ever posted on the Dope.
Hillary, but either way I’d have trouble sleeping the night after.
I can’t think of good examples of someone expressing a policy position that was actually opposite what they really believed.
Of course, there are examples of people who promise not to raise taxes, and then end up having to raise taxes. There are examples of people who express strong sympathy with the religious right and then don’t really follow up on them. There are people who express commitment to reforming health care and then cannot get it done.
Do you have examples where people have actually lied about what their policies are during a campaign, such that my statement is the “most insane thing ever posted on the Dope”? I do so want to hear them.
McCain or I’ll write in the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for that vampire bat.
If you are a super-delegate, please know that I’d vote for McCain over Clinton should Obama fail to get the nod. Stop reading here, please, nothing more to see.
I’d vote for Clinton.
Clinton. But I’d feel dirty afterwards.
Clinton. No competition. McCain has no substance. His “maverick, straight shooter” bs is a manufactured PR image that he came up with after the Keating 5 scandal as a way to make him look like a decent guy.
Oh yeah?
Then how come just about every news show I watch refers to his reputation as a maverick, and a straight shooter, using exactly those terms, huh, smartie? And I don’t watch Faux News, so you know if anything I’m getting the LIBERAL perspective!
:rolleyes:
I’d vote for Hillary if she won the nomination. And then I would cry, because the right would have demonstrated its hegemony over presidential politics to the point where they can name their own opponent.
I think I’d probably try to make myself vote for Clinton, for the SCOTUS issue alone. Otherwise, I’d vote for a third party. Maybe Nader.
I’d vote for Hillary, as I would feel any other vote would have the same effect as a vote for McCain. Then I’d go home and throw up. I’ve always been very open about who I’ve voted for, but I’d keep that one secret (aside from you all, apparently).
I live in Washington State’s, by far, “bluest” and most diverse district(the fightin’ 37th!), and while I’ve posted here and elsewhere on line that it is important for Dems to unite, if for nothing else then the SCJ seats, and am always working on my friends and family in CO and TX to go Dem; at this point, considering my district, no less state, would easily go for Hillary in Nov., and with the campaign she’s run, I will just vote with my conscience and write in my original, and always favorite pick: Dennis Kucinich.
If I were in a battleground state, I’d choke back the bile and vote for her for one reason alone: SCOTUS. I truly, honestly believe that she would be a disastrous one-term pres that would almost immediately reverse all the terrific momentum the Democrats, as a party, have been making these last two years. I would also guarantee another two-term Republican president after her. But the SCOTUS issue is imminent.
But I live in CA so if by some “miracle” she gains the nomination, I’ll simply leave the ballot blank (I think McCain would be better than her in the long run, but mostly because a Democratic congress might be slightly more effective keeping him in check; I couldn’t in good conscience vote for him, either).
Clinton. I think.
So long as Clinton didn’t get there in a way that I considered so distasteful that I just couldn’t force myself to do it. Even then McCain would need to articulate a meaningful definition of “victory” in Iraq with a real exit strategy, a commitment to moderate Supreme nom’s, and renounce some crap he’s said about immunizations and autism (that’s where he crossed my personal line). So Clinton it would have to be, the lesser of evils and all being what they are.
Retracted. I always forget to check if these threads are polls or debates.
Easy – McCain, without a second thought. I disagree with him on some issues (like the war), but at least I know what he thinks and that he’s willing to cross his own party for something he believes in (immigration, campaign finance…).
With Hillary, even on issues I agree with her on, I have no confidence that she’s actually telling the truth or that her opinion won’t change if she thinks it will give her more votes. I have less than zero confidence in her trustworthiness, she is a classic politician.