This will be short and sweet. I’ll admit that I have been on the fence about our candidate. I feel both have strong abilities and positions to recommend them, and some drawbacks as well. I don’t think my feelings on the matter are unique or terribly insightful. I love Bernie’s progressive stances on healthcare, higher education, and Wall St. I wish Hillary wasn’t so openly disdainful of his proposals. Hillary is too hawkish for my taste and I think her ties to Wall St. are uncomfortably close. But she’s proven herself to be a savvy, smart player in Washington, and as many say, I think she can get sh*t done.
Like I said, I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been said before. But after Antonin Scalia’s death, after watching the horrifying Republican debate last night, after watching Meet the Press and hearing the Trump, Rubio, Cruz and Kasich say flat out that they are fine crippling SCOTUS until they can win the election and appoint someone who probably will make Scalia look like a moderate, I have to say clearly that if we can’t pull together as a party this nation is in a tailspin.
The rec list here has been an embarrassment. This primary pie fight must end, so that we can all recognize that Hillary or Bernie, either one, will be a good president. We can not allow a Republican to take the White House and appoint the next Supreme Court Justice. We need to take a step back from hard line positions in the primary. We need to all say to ourselves, like a mantra, “Hillary or Bernie, I can live with either”, over and over.
The stakes have been raised to the nth degree. Before, a rough primary might have been a good thing for the party. Now, it very well could be a disaster for the country.
Say it with me. “Bernie or Hillary; better than any Republican. Remember SCOTUS.”
