Reply #103: Who is my candidate DurhamD? Can you read?

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I don't have a candidate yet, I'm undecided. In fact, I used to be an especially fervid Clinton supporter, but became angered by her Iraq War stands and her economic stands which are in favor of rich corporate executives, but against American workers. (Her fundraising stream helps to explain a lot of that.)

Look, even with this, I still haven't ruled out voting for her entirely-- although her recent statement about "leaving open the option to use nuclear weapons" against non-nuclear states has almost pushed me over that edge-- but you and other Hillary supporters should know, that there are millions of other Democrats who are different from me and will not vote for Hillary at all, even in the general election if she's nominated.

The reason is partly her policies, but also, many Dems are infuriated at these kinds of underhanded tactics. You and other Clinton supporters like you are doing Hillary tremendous damage with these sorts of things, because we can see through them. To the extent that Hillary herself is promoting these sorts of things, even holding a war room to personally attack opponents like Edwards and Richardson, she's angering the Democratic base so much that she's guaranteeing a defeat for herself in the 2008 general election if she's nominated. We're not stupid, and transparent attempts like this that take us for being stupid only turn the Democratic rank-and-file only more intensely against her at all levels, it's a lesson that you need to learn.