Some angry Hillary supporters are now making threats to some superdelegates that they will vote Republican if the Superdelegates do not give the second place loser the nomination.
While I understand that some Hillary supporters are angry, and some are angry and disappointed enough to think about voting for a more evil and intemperate George W. Bush, the truth is there is no anger or disappointment behind these threats to the Superdelegates. It is an orchestrated and calculated campaign strategy on the part of some of Hillary's most strident supporters on the web, most notably from the website Hillaryis44, and also from MyDD.
This campaign strategy must be condemned, denounced, and rejected by all true Democrats and liberals who consider themselves Hillary supporters.
Why?
Because if you endorse the making of that threat, or if you make that threat yourself, your credentials as a true and principled Democrat are in question, for how could you possibly consider a more evil version of Bush to be the recepient of your most prized possession in a Democracy: your vote? Especially in the light of the few miniscule differences between the policy differences of Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. Since Senator Obama and Senator Clinton share the same policy positions and goals, a vote for Clinton on policy grounds is a vote for Obama on policy grounds. To oppose Obama while favoring Clinton, and threatening to vote McCain if Clinton is not nominated means your concern is not policy. Your concern is not universal healthcare. Your concern is not the economy. Your concern is not ending the Iraq War. Your concern is not protecting the Democratic and progressive advancements of the past for the future (i.e. Social Security, Unemployment benefits, Worker's Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Civil Rights).
Your only true concern, if you make this dubious threat and indeed if you plan to follow through on the threat, is the election of Hillary Clinton due to her personality and identity, rather than any policy position she may hold.
The charge of cultism has been leveled at the supporters of Barack Obama for months now. This indictment has been made constantly of Obamaniacs by Hillary Clinton's supporters.
Yet it is hard to explain why Hillary's supporters continue to support her so fervently, make arguments that are contradicted in a matter of seconds by their professed principles and the facts, unless you consider whether her own supporters making such threats are actually and truly behaving like a cult.
They are attracted to Hillary first, and the Democratic Party and its principles a very distant second. In fact, I wonder if the future of the Democratic Party and its policies are last on the minds of Hillary's supporters who make such threats to vote for McCain.
Now, I am not talking about the majority of Hillary supporters, who may be upset, and angry, that their chosen candidate will not be our nominee, but will still vote for Obama in the fall. Indeed, true Democrats and liberals and progressives are committed to our ideals and goals for our society, rather than an individual candidates. The individual candidates are only vessels for the advancement of our goals and ideals.
But with regards to those minority of Hillary supporters making threats to vote for evil in the fall, it is obvious that their only goal and ideal is the election of Hillary Rodham Clinton, rather than the advancement of our shared Democratic principles. Indeed, they do not share our Democratic principles, for it is how they can so easily tolerate and defend racially divisive statements from campaign surrogates and the candidate herself. It is how they, in one breath, demand the counting of votes of Michigan and Florida, and in the next breath, demand that the superdelegates they threaten overturn the democratic will of all the voters throughout the country.
These minority of Hillary supporters have no principles. The ends justify the means, just so long as the end is the nomination and election of Hillary Clinton.
These threatening Hillary cultists are not representative of the vast majority who have supportered and still support Hillary Clinton for President. But the problem is they are the most vocal and the most active and the most organized.
Thus, it unfortunately falls on the majority of Hillary supporters to reject and denounce the minority of their colleagues for making these threats and attacks on the remaining undecided or undeclared superdelegates.