Who the heck is Reba Shimansky and why is it significant that she is voting for McCain over Obama?

[TeamJordan23]

Why does Mark Halperin at TIME think it is significant that she is voting for McCain over Obama?

In an exclusive interview with The Page, Reba Shimansky says she will vote for McCain and not Obama in November.

“I am very angry at the way Hillary has been treated by the Democratic Party during the last three months. When Hillary was winning the majority of the primaries, the superdelegates were flocking to Obama. The Democratic professionals wanted to please Obama more than Hillary because they valued his supporters more than Hillary’s. I have said that I would do anything in my limited capacity to destroy Obama’s candidacy (who I do not like because of his trashing of Bill Clinton and his accomplishments as president) and the best way to do that is to vote for McCain. It is an emotional not rational vote. My loyalty is to Hillary not the Democratic Party.”

http://thepage.time.com/2008/06/06/obama%e2%80%99s-shimansky-problem/

[PM7nj]

1. So, when Hillary and Bill endorse Obama...

wouldn't she be disloyal to them by voting for McCain?

[Liberal Gramma]

2. Nutter

Not significant. Not newsworthy.

[Mz Pip]

3. Guess her loyalty to Hillary

stops when Hillary comes out in support of Obama.

Well, she's got one thing right: "It's an emotional not rational vote."

Maybe she can take some meds for her irrational emotions.

Mz Pip

[Political Heretic]

4. What a moron. At least she's honest about what a total dipshit she is.

I will do anything to destroy Obama... (stupid reason to be involved in politics)

It is emotional not rational... (ie., you're a fucking moron)

My loyalty is to Hillary not to the party... (i.e. you're a waste of air.)

[Pyrzqxgl]

5. Maybe its time we all gave exclusive interviews to The Page supporting Obama.

Hell no ones heard of me either. Nows the time to get my 15 minutes and endorse Obama at the same time.

[femmedem]

6. If we have any Rebas in our own lives

we should acknowledge their anger, pain and loyalty. We should let them know their feelings are completely understandable after having committed so much of themselves to Clinton's campaign. It is hard for them to support the person who defeated their candidate.

After we've done that, without any belittling, we should tell our Rebas that the best way to demonstrate their loyalty to Clinton is to vote for the person who will fight for the same clauses as Clinton will, and who won't veto the bills Clinton sponsors in the future.

Edited for clarity, spelling, you name it. :blush:

[AtomicKitten]

7. Any woman that votes for McCain out of spite isn't worth squat & is surely no feminist!

The way Hillary was treated? She effin lost for crissakes and they're just not having it.

[dansolo]

22. If she was anyone but Hillary Clinton

She would have been pressured to drop out after WI. My god, the Democratic Party bent over backwards for Hillary throughout this primary.

[AtomicKitten]

23. That is so true.

:thumbsup:

[Window]

26. It's idiots like her who give true feminists a bad name.

[LaurenG]

8. It sounds like a "DU'er" here.

that I have absolutely no respect for. Politics can suck and people can be so one sided in their thinking that they refuse to see the whole picture. It amazes me that people who are otherwise very bright are so deluded by their own prejudices that they would harm themselves just to get even.

[texastoast]

9. Sounds like one of Rush's Operation Chaos operatives

Or just behaving like one.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

10. she means then, that to her, HILLARY = MCCAIN = MCSAME

get it?

[Kerrytravelers]

11. It seems she is an avid writer of LTTE.

http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/transcripts/transcripts_033002_reba.html
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/03/25/020325ta_talk_mnookin

[grantcart]

39. funny links what a nut job

[islandmkl]

12. just a female michael savage...

not a difference in the world, fundamentally...

[malik flavors]

13. She's a journalists and democratic activist

[Dr Fate]

17. You should put "democratic" in quotes. She is now a Republican activist. No quotes needed.

n/t

[Window]

29. No shit.

I feel it's a persons prerogative to vote for whoever they want, but to openly and avidly, say and do the following is fucked up:

"... have said that I would do anything in my limited capacity to destroy Obama’s candidacy."

I absolutely loathe people like that.

[featherman]

14. Her loyalty is "not to the Democratic Party" in her own words

What more needs to be said

[Dr Fate]

15. She's the same type of "Democrat" who supported Joe Lieberman over Lamont.

No doubt about it.

[ProSense]

16. She is one of

them

[Rose Siding]

18. And in so doing, Reba advances the outdated myth that women are slaves to emotion.

It is an emotional not rational vote."

[AndyTiedye]

19. They'll Stick a Microphone In Front of any "Democrat" Who Says They Will Vote for McCain

They want to portray our party as hopelessly divided, so that when the Repiggies steal the election, they have a plausible explanation for our "loss".

[NanceGreggs]

20. She's been dubbed "The Watchdog of Ocean Parkway" ...

She's produced so many angry letters, emails and phone calls (a rabid Democrat), she's actually "known".

She lives alone in Brooklyn, and although she does have a job, she spends every spare minute firing off letters and making phone calls to people she thinks are being unfair to Democrats in the media.

The New Yorker did an article about her in the spring of 2002. She's been a staunch Clinton fan since Bill's first days as president.

[Clovis Sangrail]

21. dayum... she sounds like the type of person I'd want as a neighbor

just to fuck with
:evilgrin:

[opihimoimoi]

24. Prolly a Pub in disguise...don't mind her/him.....

[Clovis Sangrail]

32. I don't think I'd care which side of the political divide she fell onto

it'd be fun to see what you could get her riled up about.

[opihimoimoi]

35. LOL

:spank:

Naughty Naughty...LOL...I like to do that myself....:bounce:

[Window]

25. Just another bat-shit crazy hater.

Fuck her and her mare.

[anonymous171]

27. A very uninformed person.

[dailykoff]

28. "they valued his supporters more than Hillary’s"

Hmm, could those be his BLACK voters?

[connecticut yankee]

30. Reba Shimansky is

a "well known pundit?"

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Reba's well known to the NYC radio listener community.

Before WEVD was sold in 2001, Reba would regular call the Bill Mazer radio program and Sam Greenfield. From December 2000 to August 31, 2008, Reba's mantra was "The Election was stolen! Al Gore should be the President!" That's all she wanted to talk about. The hosts went from engaged to polite and then to telling her to find something else to talk about.

Reba gets "passionate" about her issues. She reads a lot, has her facts ready, but she won't let go of an opinion. Here you see her as she is. Frankly, I'm surprised she would be this dogmatic for Hillary at the expense of the democrats losing the White House with all that is at stake.

[papapi]

33. I don't know of her, but she sounds like a dipwad.

[Political Tiger]

34. "My loyalty is to Hillary not the Democratic Party.”

Remember when they used to call Obama supporters a CULT? Oy!

[zulchzulu]

36. Vote for McCain if you are anti-choice, pro-war, pro-secret wiretapping and for a third Bush term

Anyone who votes for McCain also wants the Supreme Court to have three more anti-choice, theocratic, conservative appointees.

If you vote for McCain, you are a Republican stooge.

[rocktivity]

37. I wonder which Democratic primary she was following.

“I am very angry at the way Hillary has been treated by the Democratic Party during the last three months."
It's June 6. Three months ago was March 6, by which time Hillary already had lost about twice as many contests as she'd won.

"When Hillary was winning the majority of the primaries..."
Since when?

"...the superdelegates were flocking to Obama."
The only lead Hillary held WAS the superdelegate lead--she thought she could fake Obama out by piling them on early. Didn't work.

The Democratic professionals wanted to please Obama more than Hillary because they valued his supporters more than Hillary’s.
Well, let's be fair--Obama's supporters DID give him the "campaign funds raised" lead! ;)

"I have said that I would do anything in my limited capacity..."
Finally, something we can agree on--your "capacity" is VERY limited!

:eyes:
rocknation

[Hansel]

38. Someone with an inflated sense of self-importance?

:shrug:

[Nedsdag]

40. NY Times did a story on her a few years back.

She's a single middle aged woman who doesn't have to worry about abortion nor what McCain will do when he names judges who will gut Roe vs. Wade and affirmative action even though she's the main beneficiary of it. Since she doesn't have any children, she doesn't have to worry about what McCain will do to programs helping children in need.

She is a woman of self-importance swimming in delusions of grandeur. Well Reba darling, stay home on Election Day. Save America your worthless vote.