Who will be Hillary's running mate next year?

[karynnj]

38. Note quite that strong

In 2004 and 2008, you could not attack, smear or argue against the nominee -- though it often took some pretty negative posts to actually get the poster tombstoned.

However, there were many who continued posting - not really jumping on to the bandwagons - but not breaking that rule. They continued to post on other races, issues and events.

As you know that DU leans left, you know that many are not AT THIS POINT behind Hillary Clinton. She is very much a prohibitive frontrunner. I wonder if it might be better strategy not to threaten other Democrats with the prospect that they will be kicked out when she wins the nomination.

In 2008, the same thing happened and it took a significant event - Bush vetoing the extension of SCHIP - that made me recognize that Kerry was not just being political in 2007 when asked about the 2008 race at a point before he endorsed anyone. His answer was to say on all the issues that were important to him - and he listed many obvious issues, EVERY Democratic candidate - even if not completely where he was - was MUCH better than Every Republican candidate. It took that veto to make me see that NO Democrat would have vetoed that bill and most Republicans would.

For 2016, I likely will be in the same place I would have been had a Democrat I did not want won the nomination. The motivation in that case might just come from comparing what the country would be like under that nominee or the Republican nominee. However, at that point, I will make an effort to identify what I do like in the nominee. This used to go without saying -- ie in 1992, when Clinton was nowhere near my favorite, I did not whine that I was just anybody but Bush -- as Clintonites Begala and Carvelle did in 2004. I looked and found reasons I could use to convince others to vote for Clinton.

However, if this place becomes nasty and seems to gleefully want to exile many long time posters, it might become a less broadbased place. I don't think that will make it better.