I Have Decided - I'm For Hillary

[MrWendel]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/17/1486818/-I-Have-Decided-I-m-For-Hillary

By JBtakenote

I’m warning you in advance: Some of this is going to piss off a bunch of you, and for the right reasons, not the wrong ones. My ask of you as you read this is simple. I like both of our candidates and have given this a lot of thought. I have read multiple diaries on this site, and you did impact my decision (but more on that later).

This is a reasoned, logical and thoughtful decision, based on my age and experience, my knowledge of history, and the fact that I know both of these candidates and who they truly are, and what they have done. I’ve been watching them for a long, long time. I picked Barack Obama in 2008, and I did it the same way. That certainly didn’t mean that I didn’t trust or didn’t like Hillary Clinton then. And my choice of Hillary Clinton certainly doesn’t mean that I don’t trust or don’t like Bernie Sanders. I just think he is the wrong choice.

So here it goes:

​Priorities: ​The priority is not ​get the most progressive (or liberal) President possible. The priority is to defeat this particular group of Republicans so badly that they become a true minority — because only a true minority will be the spanking they deserve for being not just a party we disagree with, not just a political machine hell-bent on rolling back hard fought for gains, but today a political group the is actually crypto-fascist and dangerous to our democracy.

(More in link)

[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

[radical noodle]

2. +10000 N/T

[stopbush]

3. My thoughts exactly.

[mgmaggiemg]

4. thank you for the link

Cheers, Maggie

[lovemydog]

5. Excellent article.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm beginning to realize daily kos has some really good material.

For too long I thought it was only far left.

I've read some good stuff from D Kos that others have posted here too.

[Ali-96]

6. Bernie outpolls Clinton against Republicans consistently

Bernie Sanders consistently outpolls Hillary Clinton against all Republicans. Your argument is based on a false premise. Therefore, I hope you reconsider or at least admit that there is no proof to back your claim that Hillary beats Republicans better than Bernie.

[Cha]

7. NO. he doesn't. the repubs want him to win the primary so they can run against him.

Ain't gonna happen.

The OP is right @ dkos..

"The problem is that he can’t be attacking others for doing the same thing. The high horse doesn’t work out so well unless you are actually on it.

Then there’s the campaign, the insurgent, non-traditional campaign. It’s run by Tad Devine, a long-time Democratic strategist who worked for blue dog Democrat Jimmy Carter, followed by ​establishment ​candidates Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Lloyd Bentsen, Bob Kerrey, Al Gore and John Kerry.

And a very experienced strategist means your campaign does some really traditional, not-so-nice things like infiltrating labor unions to drum up support and hacking into databases to steal the opposition’s data. That’s pretty standard fare, and it’s pretty hypocritical of this insurgent, outsider campaign. And that bothers me well more than the fact that the Sanders campaign is doing things that campaigns normally do."

Yes you are Blocked.

[still_one]

8. You realize this is the Hillary group, whose statement of purpose are for those who support Hillary

As far as the hypothetical republican match ups are concerned, they are meaningless.

A President is determined by the states through the electoral college. These supposed match ups do NOT take that into consideration in their polls.

A nominee is also determined by the states, and the number of delegates.

Until the nominees are actually chosen, that is when it becomes real.

[shenmue]

9. Enjoy your stay

Where were those polls taken, your head?

[stonecutter357]

10. Are you a true Bernie supporter ?

[stonecutter357]

11. Don't Berniebro the Hillary Clinton (Group)

[72DejaVu]

12. Of course Republicans support Bernie's nomination

They supported McGovern's as well, as I recall.