What if it was Edwards?

[hfojvt]

Sort of a thought-experiment. If the two remaining candidates were Obama and Edwards, then theoretically I would be in the same camp as Hillary supporters. Would I want him to drop out before Texas and Ohio, or would I still be clinging to hope that he could come back and win the nomination down the road?

I probably would be hoping that Edwards would win big and would be reaching for straws trying to figure ways he could still win the nomination. If he won all the remaining contests by ten points or more, I might argue that the superdelegates should then support him. I certainly would be counting on him to win big on May 6th. I probably would be mad at the media for treating him unfairly, which they certainly did before he dropped out, and at DUers who bashed him, as there certainly were DUers calling him a phony before he dropped out. Some of them were Obama supporters too IIRC.

So do I understand how Hillary supporters feel?

Not quite. For one thing, I don't think I would have the kind of hate for Obama that is in evidence here. For example, Obama made the "Reagan statement" when Edwards was still in the race and I thought he was unfairly attacked for it. Perhaps some of the Obama-hate comes from the McClurkin issue and yet Hillary's "compromises" there have not gotten the same press
http://citizenchris.typepad.com/citizenchris/2007/11/hillarys-donnie.html

I probably would not be defending his McCain remark either, if he made one. Certainly not by calling DUers lunatics or liars if they saw something bad in it. Back in 2004 I did not think we should have been in a hurry to select a nominee, but I also thought that our candidates should not be bashing one another. They should all have been bashing Bush. That way we would not have a nominee who had been bloodied by a primary fight. If Edwards was running a negative campaign and promoting the war on Tara or McCain's experience, I would not be happy about that.

Even if the two remaining were Edwards and Hillary, I would not want Edwards to attack the front-runner, especially not with Republican talking points.

I really expected Hillary to clinch the nomination on Super Tuesday in February, and that I would have to clear the anti-Hillary entries out of my journal and keep a low profile, or I joked that I would be tombstoned:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7372076&mesg_id=7375430

I wouldn't be happy if she was the nominee, but I also would not be supporting a candidate who attacked her from the right.

[2rth2pwr]

1. Didn't Edwards already promise to stay in it

"all the way to the convention"?

[hfojvt]

2. yeah, and then he didn't.

Some promises though, are based on optimism. He probably said he was gonna win too.

[trueblue2007]

4. I was ALWAYS for Edwards.

When he dropped out...I turned to Hillary. I wish she would pull him in as her VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate.

[hfojvt]

3. one more time for all the old times

I guess it is futile to try to see things from another's point of view.