2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton addresses the "Sanders or I Stay Home" mentality [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"I'm working with a few (mostly republicans) to get our liquor laws changed. They are from 1949 - it's time to change things. Bring my preoperty taxes down and lets get some wine and cigar bars on our main street.
That said - point blank - I don't believe in Sanders platform or approach and I won't vote for him.
I simply won't."
From this thread,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251700805#post59
In this next link, a poster named MaggieD who has made a cottage industry out of declaring she won't vote for the nominee if it is Bernie while claiming to be the definitive Democrat and Hillary supporter says it a few times:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251878490#post21
Perhaps the best of them is the poster who runs about smearing Bernie with the exact same set of smears he used on Obama in 08, while 'Obama supporters' befriend him in 2015. Called both Obama and Bernie 'fakes' and used to like to play spelling games with Obama's name 'Barook' and Bareek' and that sort of thing. That poster is currently very popular with the Hillary folks. Said Obama was not electable, said he would not vote for him in the GE if nominated, now says the same about Bernie. I'm not linking to that one but I'll PM you the name if you actually care.
I don't like this listing of persons thing, but many on the Clinton side who cheer for these 'I won't vote for Bernie' posts later claim they've never seen any such thing. 'It's only Bernie supporters who say that' they assert, having rec'd the threads and shouted agreement in some of the worst of the threads. I don't care for that.
Hillary needs to clean up her own team first in that regard. Right now, her standing is damaged in my eyes by behavior I have seen here not just now but in 08. Same posters 'for Hillary' attacking both Bernie and Barack with the same smears. That just sucks, and that is a culture, it takes a village.