Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Buttigieg has 'enormous respect' for Hillary Clinton, says she was 'ill-served' by strategy... [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)For many members of this community, no mention of Hillary or even unnamed reference is met with a rapid response. I usually think, that long term Hillary supporters would not even be happy if added to the terms of service was a directive that any reference, direct or indirect, to Hillary should be followed immediately with the parenthetical, ", the most perfect, smartest, honest, nicest, empathetic, informed, person in the history of the planet's history and every single policy, speech and statement was by definition perfect if only the we were close to smart enough to understand how brilliant."
I suspect that even this will not be enough unless the whole planet in unison stood up held hands and repeated those words every five minutes in a mantra genuflecting to a picture of Hillary located on every wall in every house on the planet.
Sarcastic view of this site yes but its not far from true. I would like to hear some internal criticism from the fervent Hillary supporters that is not like those job interview questions and answers where you explain your faults and weaknesses as your strengths.
Personally, I was a Bernie or O'Malley supporter in the last election because I thought then and wrote that it is crazy to nominate a candidate with high somewhat baked in unfavorable poll numbers (regardless of whether they were deserved or undeserved) and who had weakness within the democratic coalition shown by the fact that she had lost a primary before to an unknown.
To be consistent, I do not support Bernie in this election only because of the negatives held by many of the 2016 Hillary supporters which is the same situation the other way as 2016. It does not matter to me that I consider those negative emotions towards Bernie undeserved. His only real "crime" was that he actually ran against a front running candidate. He did not cause Trump. He announced before anyone thought Trump had a chance of getting through the Republican primaries. However, the Hillary camp's negatives towards Bernie currently exist and are an important factor in what I think of as "electability" in the coming election and should be a factor in the primary.
However, it would be refreshing to have some honesty in these attacks on any other candidate or supporter who mentions her campaign or the electability problems that Hillary had as a candidate from the moment she started running in terms of baked in unfavorable independent of Bernie, Comey, emails, the Russians and any other factor one wants to name..
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided