Ana Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump

[DemocratSinceBirth]

(CNN)I didn't want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase.

I had decided to write-in my mother as a symbolic protest vote against the Democratic and Republican nominees. I didn't want to vote for either of them.




I had hoped that a week before the election, Trump would be losing Florida by a large enough margin that my vote wouldn't matter. But darn it, my home state is too close to call. Florida could be the decisive state (again) as to who ultimately becomes the next president of the United States. I thought back to the 2000 election, which was decided by 537 votes in Florida. I thought about how I would feel if the same thing happened in 2016. I thought and I thought and I thought....
Then I cast my vote for Hillary Clinton. Let me rephrase that. I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/opinions/navarro-republican-voting-for-clinton/index.html

[sarae]

1. Between this and Glenn Beck's "Obama Made Me a Better Man"

I feel like I'm dreaming. Is this really happening?

[3catwoman3]

2. When did Glenn Beck...

...say that, and how on Earth did I miss it?

[sarae]

5. It was just posted, here's the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028277808

[still_one]

3. She at least has more integrity than Steele, who won't vote for anyone in the Presidental

race

Frankly, any Hispanic or African American voting for trump would be comparable to a Jewish person voting for Hitler. It would be absolutely insane

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Sometimes, "seeing the light" takes a looooong while for some people. But happy that she's casting

her vote for Hillary. A vote is a vote is a vote.

[MoonRiver]

6. Well, a vote is a vote, no matter how unenthusiastically cast.

So, for that reason alone, I give Ana Navarro my thanks.

[MADem]

7. I'll bet when she tells the story to her grandchildren, she'll have less angst and more

enthusiasm for Hillary.

[LeftofObama]

8. I had CNN on in the car a week or so ago and Ana Navarro was talking about how she was

going to write in her mother. She said that her mother actually thought she could win and told Ana that she didn't want the job. She told Ana to stop telling people to write her name in.