Reply #78: I wouldn't vote for Zell Miller, Joseph Leiberman or Hillary Clinton as the nominee

[JAbuchan08]

I probably wouldn't vote for Evan Bayh or Mark Warner for that matter.

I'm tired of voting for the lesser Dem because they are more "electable" as defined by the Republican party and the DLC.

Hillary supporters are perfectly within their rights not to vote for the Democrat in the general, but I don't respect that decision any more than I respect the decision to vote for Hillary in the first place.

I vote my principles, and while Obama is not perfect he is a sight better than Clinton.

The reason Hillary supporters keep threatening not to vote for Obama is because they want us to kiss their asses. They want a tacit admission from Obama supporters (and those of us who support Obama as an alternative to the war queen) that both Dems are "equally good" because they are not John McCain.

Fortunately I am probably not going to have to confront the possibility of a Hillary nomination, but if I were I believe my choice not to vote for her rests on the principles of my beliefs and not on spitefulness that comes from being a sore loser. When my candidate(s) dropped out I didn't threaten to withhold my support from all other Democrats out of spitefulness, but I feel certain that if ANY other Democrat had challenged Hillary as her final opponent we would be seeing the same behavior from Hillary and her supporters.

THe hatred coming from the Hillary camp is not about Obama. It's about Hillary, about how she has beene an unacceptable candidate to a lot of Dems from the very beginning and her supporters cannot stand that. The would have us believe that their hatred of Obama is just as reasoned and policy based as our dislike of her, but it's can't be because where their policy positions deviate she too consistently errs on the side of conservatism.

All they have left is their own spitefulness and charges of arrogance and "sexism" both of which only exist in opposition to the dislike so many of us feel for Hillary. It is similar to when Republicans accuse liberals of "hatefulness" for pointing out their hatefulness, or "bigotry" for pointing out their bigotry. So too Obama is "arrogant" for pointing out Hillary's arrogance or hateful and sexist for pointing out her condescension and mean-spiritedness.

Hillary supporters hate Obama, because they can't convince us to love or respect her.