The thoughtlessness, the egoism, the moral laziness, the casual self-important sanctimony of going on to one of the largest lefty sites and using that freely provided facility to attack Hillary insubstantially is just deplorable. The only thing any of you accomplish when you do this is to make it harder for Hillary in the event that she's the nominee. I know you don't want her to be the nominee but what if the majority of people voting in Democratic primary and caucuses want her? Shouldn't they have the right to expect their candidate to not be saddled with more than others? Shouldn't all Democratic candidates be able to expect that they will be supported should they win the majority of votes?
What Democrats do NOT need to do is provide Republicans with tons of copy about why Hillary shouldn't run and how bad it will be for the country if she does. And suppose for just one minute she's the nominee - suppose she's a hugely popular nominee? You don't think your posts talking about what a disaster she is as a candidate are gonna be fodder for lots of anti-Hillary stories? Of course, they will be. You want to know why the nineties went so badly for Bill? Partly it's because of people using Bill's presidency to prop up their own degraded moral self-image in the same way these posters are now using Hillary and her purported planned run for the presidency to prop up theirs. Disgraceful.
My point here is that we don't know what's going to transpire over the next few years - none of us do. There are a lot of desperate powerful people in DC right now and history is up for grabs. Hillary is a potent and efficacious candidate - we should not be taking a single weapon or player off the field right now. We have a battle to fight and we don't have any idea what the battlefield is going to look like, or what the traps are going to be.
If you want to attack Hillary over a vote she's made, or a postion she's taken - please do. But to get down on your knees and caterwaul piteously about what a disaster her campaign would be for the Democrats and the country is to simply play the Republicans game for them. Don't do it regardless of how desperately in need of a booster your ego is.
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