HILLARY SUPPORTERS A VOTE FOR MCCAIN IS DISRESPECT FOR HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Begala may have hit it on the head of the nail this morning, talking about Hillary Clinton on the Imus show.

If Obama doesn't win, she's done in the party, and according to Begala (a Clinton supporter and close friend) she knows it.

That comment followed a friendly argument in which Imus accused Clinton of not wanting Obama to win. Begala responded that she did, because the issues were more important to her than personal ambitions. But, Begala added, even if Imus doesn't believe that, consider this from the perspective of Clinton self interest. If Obama loses, she gets at least part of the blame.

Begala says Clinton fully recognizes this, and because of both her national interest and self interest will do everything she can to get Obama elected.

Alice there are not 18 million Hillary supporters voting for McCain. But there are at least 18 million voting for Obama. Yes there is power in numbers.

Barack seems to have had a Senior (or Drug Addict) moment last night when he couldn't remember what city he was in. THought he was in St Louis.

It is not Hillary Clinton's job to unite the Dem Party ... it is the nominee's job ... and if he can't unite his own party ... or have the good sense to pick a VP who received 18million votes ... what makes anyone think he has the tenacity or good judgement to run the country! What was the big rush with the Dems .. the nominee should have been elected at the Convention ... now we have a tie with the GOP candidate and the best Dem candidate for President for decades being forced to support someone she knows is not qualified for the job!

Latest polls show that 30% of Hillary supporters are voting for McCain. As CNN stated last night, if even 5% vote for McCain in November, McCain will win the Presidency. The way I see it, with this division in the Democratic party, which will not be unified by November, its a win-win situation for the Republicans and John McCain.

Speaking from personal experience, 1 out of 3 people in my family who were Clinton supporters (and not die hard ones either) have switched to McCain.
It's less about anger that Clinton wasn't chosen, more about the unknown Obama.

now we have a tie with the GOP candidate and the best Dem candidate for President for decades being forced to support someone she knows is not qualified for the job!

Posted by: Francisco Cardenas | Aug 26, 2008 11:02:47 AM

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU, ONE OF THE BEST POSTS I HAVE SEEN. HILLARY WAS THE BEST CANDIDATE, HOWEVER, THE DNC TOTALLY MADE A MISTAKE. OBAMA KNOWS IT, BUT HE'S CAUGHT IN THE MIX. I AGREE, ITS OBAMA'S PLACE TO UNITE THE PARTY, NOT HILLARY'S. IF OBAMA CAN'T UNITE THE PARTY, THEN HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE PRESIDENT! ENOUGH OF THE HILLARY BASHING, ESPECIALLY BY OBAMABOTS!!!

HILLARY SUPPORTERS A VOTE FOR MCCAIN IS DISRESPECT FOR HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: angie | Aug 26, 2008
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We respect her, and we respect her decisions, but we do not blindly follow her, unlike you who are willing to accept a Nothingness.

David from Texas

the problem is...the countries future lies in the balance... think about if we stay on this trajectory for 4 more years.

Where will this country be?

Imagine that...4 more years of this same structure and belief system ...

the same decision makers (because Bush's team McCain has already hired )

where do you think we will be.

whether it is Obama or Clinton we would be here...half the party would have lost...

now we have a choice...

4 more years on this downward direction...

or fulfilling the need of our anger.

Lovely 16 more years of a Republican White House. I wonder what the name of the new party will be and who will control it.

I am afraid that the Democratic Party brand is damaged beyond redemption.

David from Texas: "Latest polls show that 30% of Hillary supporters are voting for McCain. As CNN stated last night, if even 5% vote for McCain in November, McCain will win the Presidency."

Not sure what CNN said, but that doesn't sound true.

If right now 30 percent of Clinton supporters are planning to vote for McCain, then that's reflected in current polling. In other words, if it stays at 30 percent, Obama still wins a close election.

If it drops to five percent (a 25 percent difference of 18 million, or 4.5 million) then that's another few points out of a national percentage in Obama's favor.

I don't think anyone really believes that Obama was a better candidate than Clinton in retrospect. Now that Obama's "new politics" have been abandoned, you're left with an empty suit.

JA: "I don't think anyone really believes that Obama was a better candidate than Clinton in retrospect."

Not that it really matters, but I suspect you are incorrect there. I for one supported Obama in the primaries and still think he's a better candidate.

All of this hoopla of voting for McSame is nonsense!! A true Democrat would never set aside their ideals out of spite!!

Why has the country elected only two Democrats as President in the last 40 years? It’s very simple. The majority of the country is middle of the road, maybe a little bit to the right. The Democrats keep nominating very liberal candidates, too liberal for many Democrats. That’s why they lose. Democrats like me vote as Democrats for the Senate, Governor, etc. and we wind up voting Republican for President. Evan Bayh, Indiana, has said that he didn’t run for President because he’s too much of a centrist, and the activists in the Party always work to elect a liberal. That’s too bad, because as boring as he is, he would make a good president. And there’s no doubt in my mind that he’d be elected. Ordinary Democrats are hungry for a Democrat in the White House, and a Democratic Congress. That isn’t going to happen this time. I simply don’t understand why the ultra liberal wing of the Democratic Party doesn’t understand this. Centrist Democrats have a history of deserting the Party in favor of Republican candidates. How many times do we have to do it before the Democratic Party gets the message? RUN A CENTRIST DEMOCRAT INSTEAD OF A LEFT-WING SOCIALIST WANNABE, AND MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DEMOCRATS WILL SUPPORT THE PARTY

Then there’s the Clintons’ most recognizable surrogate/adviser, going on television Monday night to basically declare one-fourth of Obama’s convention a messaging disaster.
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Truths often hurts.... So few courageous people dare to say it. The only person on the democratic side who knows how to win is Carville. If Zero-bama campaign dismisses as minority, they got that right. He is the only one in more than half a century to help elect a two-term president for the dems. Minority indeed.

Paul is right david is wrong...

5% of Hillary voters voting for obama would be better than Bill Clinton did in 92 ...Gore did in 2000 and Kerry did in 2004

so...considering Keery and Gore tied (I know Gore won)

your numbers are false.

also thiose 30% are already factored into the polls we have been seeing ...they have to be duh.

so there is a lot better chance that Hillary voters the further they get away from the primaries the more obvious it is how different mccain is from Hillary and how similar Obama is.

so please use logic...not false spin.

Paul,

Like I said, I don't think anyone really believes it. Just diehard supporters fooling themselves.
Obama brought NOTHING to the table over Clinton other than rhetoric and a supposed "new politics". Now that the new politics is abandoned, and the rhetoric has grown stale.......well, look at the polls. The 3 most current polls (Rasmussen, Gallup, CNN) show it all tied up. Clinton would have been ahead of McCain considerably.

Once again, Dems put forward a weak candidate.

Jennifer,

Some people put their country before party. "True Democrat" - nonsense. You want people to blindly follow Obama into disaster?

Unlike you, some people THINK before making a decision, don't let others tell them what to do.