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In reply to the discussion: So IF Hillary is the Democratic nominee in 2016, will you vote for her or stay home? [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)AND SHE HAS NEVER BEEN VETTED NATIONALLY. Who the hell knows whats in her closet or any other non-nationally vetted candidate.
Only Biden and Hillary have been vetted.
she talks good
but then so did Dennis kucinich, but almost nothing he ever suggested ever became law, nor can a one issue candidate win as proven by nice guys like George McGovern or Eugene McCarthy and Mike Dukakis and the others
(and don't forget the fraud on the other side talked and was in office for 25 years and did diddley squat on the same issue. If he actually wanted to do something, why didn't he?
But he talked a good game too that Ron Paul fraud).
We don't want another Dukakis, though he is a super great guy and I would love to disuss politics with him for 100 years
but the public did not agree with any of the above being president, and a Bush destroyed Dukakis, a big liberal from Mass in one of the biggest landslides of all time.
and Mass. has a dismal record in recent years on all sides for having a losing candidate
(by losing I mean the person running never appeared on "the placemat of presidents"
(not interested in any theft meme here.)
My heart was broken in 1968 when directly because of democrats, LBJ was forced to not run, and for what? kennedy was killed and so obviously were the dems chances in 1968, whereas LBJ would have won, he was the singular most liberal president up to that point ever, and it set goals back for decades, giving us nixon,ford, reagan, bush, bush and the possiblity of Jeb
RFK would not have run and died but for McCarthy, and he then would have been alive in 72 and 76
(though truth be told - LBJ was far more liberal than RFK anyhow on any and all social issues.
Have no fear though, she is not running. Hillary has it in the bag, and this thread btw
is about Hillary.
and Liz is not even the #1 person from Mass- Deval Patrick would be
all of the ones who won't be in office in 2016 are running for vp
the others should remain in their seats so that the repubs don't steal them
2016 is way different than 2008.
I would think anyone who would not vote for the democratic candidate if it is Hillary in2016 would be going against what this board stands for in its terms.
imho (except for the last line which is in the terms of this board).