I’m a Hillary supporter, by default. Meaning, I really dislike all the others so much that I’ll hold my nose and vote for her.
But the one thing I really dislike about her is that she’s never challenged the basic assertions of Sanders. She’s allowed him to set the agenda of all the debates.
Example: She’s never challenged his constant attacks on Wall Street and the upper 1%. She’s never pointed out that Wall Street is a necessary driving force in the success of the U.S. economy, and that most of the people in Wall Street are not crooks. Nor are the top 1%. She’s never pointed out that most wealthy people acquired their wealth through honest hard work, and never ripped off the working/middle class.
I’m not here to debate this. I’m just asking what you dislike most about the candidate you’re supporting.
Hillary: Not charismatic, or inspirational – except in the sense that raw accomplishment is inspirational. Her pragmatism may dominate her idealism a bit too much.
Hillary might be the worst public speaker nominee since Mike Dukakis. I can agree with her 95% of the time, but her voice is like nails on a chalkboard and her speeches are lifeless and uninspiring. If you could combine Obama’s oratory with Hillary’s policy wonkiness, you’d have the second coming of FDR. She’ll be an utterly competent president, but as soon as she opens her mouth you can’t wait for her to shut up.
John Kasich is a career politician. His only private sector experience is of the “cashing in” variety that he did between the House and becoming governor.
I won’t debate your claims about Wall Street and the 1% and so on, but I’d like to debate your dislike of how she doesn’t challenge what Sanders says about 'em.
I figure she’s been thinking as follows:
I’m comfortably ahead on points, and so just have to not lose;
So if he wants to start an argument about this, I just have to not bother…
…and then I get the nomination, radiating blandly reassuring competence.
Maybe I’ll be comfortably ahead on points against the Republican candidate?
If so, I’ll do my best to not lose: shrugging whenever I don’t need to argue.
If not, well, then, like, Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning.
If I’m right, it seems like it’s working, in which case I can’t really fault her for it.
I’m a Hillary supporter, I wish she’d defend TPP and NAFTA. Trade deals are an overall economic good thing but I know that’s a hard sell to poorly educated blue collar workers.
Hillary comes off as unlikeable. Its a problem that women have, and I disklike myself for disliking her, but I do.
I know a woman who actually knows her (as in, has had meals with her, has sat next to in conferences, can get Hillary to take her phone calls - my friend is a reproductive rights mover and shaker at a national level), and says she is really different in person on an intimate level.
Hillary’s charisma gap doesn’t bother me as much as her hawkishness. I don’t think it’s from a conscious decision to project strength as much as a genuine belief in the ability of military intervention to bring positive change, a notion that’s proven, shall we say … problematic.
That she won’t defend centrism on stage and is trying to placate the crazies on the left about things like “white privilege,” aspects of “feminism” (like the so-called campus rape “epidemic”) things like Radical Islam Terror (tho to her credit 10 years ago, she used the term Islamic terror) and Syrian refugees.
Sanders use of made up economics to support his agenda, as well as his lack of admission that he can’t actually do much as president without congressional assistance, which isn’t going to happen.
But, I’ll take a broader view, on things TPP and $15 minimum wage, I wish Clinton was less of a calculating politician who tends to shift her public views based on popular currents. I mean, I can see where she gives herself a bit of wiggle room on both, but still. I’d much rather her talk about how it is her ultimate aspiration to get to X, but we need to take steps to get there, and she’s proposing those steps (as opposed to just saying, I’m for X too).
I have switched to Cruz now, and I don’t like how he handled the government shutdown a couple years ago. He acted selfishly and put his own needs above that of the party.
