Reply #69: You Can't "Blame Clinton" For Her Supporters

[Raejeanowl]

The fact of the matter is, even if the math doesn't begin to work without some superdelegate revolution and/or a Hillary grand slam in the remaining primaries, popular voter support for Clinton is nearly as high as that for Obama. You can't dismiss it. Those voters will (and presumably would, in the GE) only go to Obama out of a lack of any other Democratic alternative.

Where do you think Obama got much of his present support, but by default, from the resignation of Edwards, et al? Dividing "the spoils" could have just as easily cut the same margin in Clinton's favor.

She hasn't mesmerized her people any more than Obama his, unless that's what the blame game is suggesting. Nearly half of the Democratic voter population in the U.S. has, to date, has REJECTED OBAMA, and that's what rankles around here. Has rejected the DU popular choice; where the numbers seem to run much so much higher in his favor that the Clinton fans are bailing out and/or laying very low because they can't stomach the constant gang-bang bullying and pressure (which is actually the least of the nastiness). And now we get to hear daily that the only reason we are supporting her is because we're probably white trash, uneducated, old, and irrelevant anyway. Thank you, fellow Dems.

Well, speaking of intolerance, if Obama can't stand the heat (of Clinton staying in to the BITTER end, which she is fully entitled to do, by the way-just as he would be if the situation were reversed), he needs to get the hell out of the political kitchen. I think we're still going to elect a Democratic president-how about you?

Unfortunately, Clinton can keep her messages positive all the live-long day, and still be excoriated as the inevitable dirt, failings or faux pas of her opponent leak out, whether she comments or not. She or her campaign will be blamed for planting or manufacturing them. Or she will be criticized for failing to address them.

By the way, I beg your pardon for "hijacking" the Obama Peep thread the way it's done in the reverse here all the time, because it struck me as such a quixotic question. Our permission or endorsement here on DU is not needed.