After making a concerted effort to read the views of Hillary supporters at sites like MyDD, Taylor Marsh and LeftCoaster, this is my summation of their arguments:
- The media is mean to Hillary
- The Internet is mean to Hillary
- Other Democrats are mean to Hillary
- Howard Dean is mean to Hillary
- Obama supporters are mean to Hillary
- Everyone is mean to Hillary
- You're a Hillary Hater(TM)!
Wow, people are so mean!
Hillary is just a brave wonderful gal who bravely and wonderfully stands up to all this MEANNESS. It's just mean and unfair. It even made her cry. If we all just realized how wonderful she is, we'd vote for her.
What kind of argument is this? What kind of rationale for voting is that?
I realize that a lot of older female voters identify with Hillary in a deeply personal way and think she "deserves" to be President. (Is it because of Monica? Is that why Hillary deserves HER turn at the Oval Office?) I'm sorry that they are hurt and disappointed that Hillary might not get to go back to the White House and be in charge this time.
But I'm even sorrier that they threaten to vote for John McCain if their candidate doesn't win. What kind of Democrat would say that? Or even think it?
I have repeatedly asked Hillary supporters (politely and rationally) to explain their support in light of Hillary's Tuzla fabrications and her other exaggerations of her so-called foreign policy experience. I could not get a simple direct answer. Instead I got the predictable "You're a Hillary Hater (TM)!" and "She deserves to win!"
Any expression of distrust or dislike is instantly labeled "hate." If you support Obama, you're a "cultist" who "drank the kool-aid." What kind of political argument is that?
Look, I know it is important to come together as Democrats. I support Obama, but if he were somehow to lose the nomination, I would vote for Clinton over ANY Republican, EVER.
But I really can't take this victimology of Hillary any more. Please stop with the crying about how "mean" and "unfair" it is that Hillary might not get the Presidency she thinks she "deserves."
Thank you.
UPDATED: Specifics, people want specifics:
The front page of The Left Coaster cites another blog saying:
Over a nice Vietnamese dinner yesterday with my Very Good Friend Paul Krugman®, who allegedly knows a thing or two about economics, he talked about the vicious hate mail he gets for saying positive things about Hillary Clinton. (No surprise to me.)
No surprise to her! Random mean emails from someone (who?) apparently are proof of something sinister.... (has this person seen the Internet?)
Current diary at MyDD ("Obama Supporters: Save your breath"):
We Hillary backers are prepared to sacrifice our short-term goal of winning the White House in order to intervene in the hijacking of our party which we feel Obama and his zealot followers have undertaken.
No comment necessary.
Front page of Taylor Marsh:
Here's a clue. The blogger in question has a terminal case of Clinton Derangement Syndrome. I know, there are so many of them.
So, it's a Vast.... Left Wing conspiracy?