After reading at least a dozen diaries detailing why someone won't vote for Hillary/whoever, I have just one thing to say.
Suck it up you pussies.
I am a gay american. I voted for Kerry even though he was against gay marriage. Why? Because he was heads and tails a better candidate not to mention human being over Bush.
Most democratic candidates are at least publicly anti-gay marriage, yet I vote for them. You have to walk before you can run, and to walk we need to get the hummer drivers out of there, they are mowing down everyone in their paths.
Then and only then will we be able to have the civil and thoughtful conversations necessary to address gay marriage, and all of the abuse to the constitution done by 6+ years of the Bush administration.
Don't like Hillary? Well if she was on the ballot, which I doubt, if you throw your vote away or worse yet vote for a republican, you take our democracy, imperfect as it is and stomp on it, then swirl it around in the toilet for awhile, before finally dousing it in gasoline and setting it ablaze.
This is a time when we simply do not have the luxury of being one-issue voters. Thats what got us into this mess.
We have to get the foxes out of the henhouse. Period.
I swear I will hold my nose if necessary and vote for whatever slick politician is on the ballot. As long as he is a democrat, so that we can finally begin turning this mess around. That is step one. Worrying about torture, Iraq, gay marriage, and all the other things that have been so royally fucked up is step two.