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Splinter Cell

(703 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:37 PM Nov 2015

For all those that claim it's about beating the GOP nominee...

And you think Hillary has a better shot at doing just that....explain what fuckin' difference it makes. She basically is a republican in everything but name. Why should we nominate a person with little room between their positions and the GOP's? In spite of what primary polls say, she is not electable with all her faults.

We couldn't help or unite the enemy any better then a Clinton nomination.

I don't have a favourite candidate at this point, but I know Clinton won't cut it. I want to win as much as anyone here, but how is a choice between two conservatives a victory?

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For all those that claim it's about beating the GOP nominee... (Original Post) Splinter Cell Nov 2015 OP
"The lesser of two evils" is still evil. eom Betty Karlson Nov 2015 #1
'The lesser of two evils' is a figure of speech, a calculation all voters must make emulatorloo Nov 2015 #7
Hear, Hear. nt Skidmore Nov 2015 #10
In 2000 people that made the argument you are making brought about this Renew Deal Nov 2015 #2
As a Bernie supporter I have to ask you: katsy Nov 2015 #3
It will make no "fuckin'" difference, but MineralMan Nov 2015 #4
Anyone that thinks Clinton is the same as the crazy Repukes is bat shit crazy. OverBurn Nov 2015 #5
Whoever wins the election Runningdawg Nov 2015 #6
Look at the repub state legislatures upaloopa Nov 2015 #8
Ridiculous. Hillary wants $12/hr min wage, Fiorina wants to eliminate minimum wage Dems to Win Nov 2015 #9
so sick of the 'theyre all the same excpt MY candidate' b.s. saturnsring Nov 2015 #11
+1 n/t FSogol Nov 2015 #12

emulatorloo

(44,120 posts)
7. 'The lesser of two evils' is a figure of speech, a calculation all voters must make
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:56 PM
Nov 2015

when they enter the voting booth. No politician will ever be perfectly aligned with me.

I vote for the person who most closely matches my political postitions. That is why I am caucusing for Bernie.

That being said, none of our candidates are evil.

As to the GOP candidates, their policies are very very destructive to people in the US.

In the debate I watched it seemed our candidates they agreed on more things than they differed on. They have different approaches but they are on the same page. I know who would do the best job.

When we come to the general, our candidate whoever it is will have more constructive policies that the destructive Republican nominee.

I bel

I will vote for the Dem nominee. Because our Dem candidate will more closely match my political postitions.

Renew Deal

(81,856 posts)
2. In 2000 people that made the argument you are making brought about this
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:42 PM
Nov 2015


And this:



And this:



And this:


And much more.

katsy

(4,246 posts)
3. As a Bernie supporter I have to ask you:
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:44 PM
Nov 2015

R u likening Hillary to carly fiorina or trump?

Hillary is not our enemy. Maybe not our candidate of choice but unless you are a 1 issue voter... Say like anti-wall st, she is undoubtedly a democratic with democratic ideals.

She is wonderful and inspiring for women's issues.

Too conservative for me as I'm left of ghandi but if she's our nominee I'd be proud to have her as our prez.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
4. It will make no "fuckin'" difference, but
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:44 PM
Nov 2015

it will assure that a Democrat sits in the White House in 2017. I'm not sure how sexual acts fit into that, really.

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
6. Whoever wins the election
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 03:52 PM
Nov 2015

will have a good chance at stacking the SCOUTS with those who share their views. That right there should scare the hell out of anyone who claims to be a liberal. The only way Dems can screw this up is if people who don't like the nominee don't vote.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
8. Look at the repub state legislatures
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 04:14 PM
Nov 2015

That's what you get with thinking like yours.
I call it the "burn down the house" mentality.
Yea let's burn down the whole fucking house because we are all screwed anyway we vote. Then you wake up the next morning to find yourself out in the cold for 8 more years.

 

Dems to Win

(2,161 posts)
9. Ridiculous. Hillary wants $12/hr min wage, Fiorina wants to eliminate minimum wage
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 04:17 PM
Nov 2015

I'm a strong Bernie supporter. I don't think Hillary can win, so I try to refute the idea that she's our best chance for victory. I cannot forgive Hillary for her inexcusable vote to authorize the Iraq War, and I definitely worry she wouldn't be too different from the GOP on matters of war and peace, so I'm working hard for Bernie to win the nomination.

But I don't pretend she's no different than a Republican. People currently working for $7.25 an hour will have much better lives if we raise the wage to $12.

Obamacare is far from perfect, but real people will suffer if it's repealed under a Republican president.

On many other issues, Hillary is a better choice than any of the Rs.

The lesser of two evils is still LESSER. Lesser is better than Greater! It's basic math, if you want to express it that way.

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