Grumbling Clinton supporters make Democrats nervous

[Beacool]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- While Sen. Hillary Clinton was endorsing Sen. Barack Obama, some of those weighing in on her campaign Web site were less willing to concede.

As Clinton wrapped up her remarks Saturday in Washington with a plea for supporters to work "as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," many were posting messages saying they would never vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee. A few even called on her backers to visit Sen. John McCain's campaign Web site.

"I love her and will vote for her in 2012, but it's McCain all the way now," wrote one within moments of the New York senator's address.

Whether that sort of statement signals a defection to the presumptive Republican nominee, a voter less likely to make it to the polls on Election Day or just a bit of low-grade, post-primary grumbling -- it's the sort of sentiment that makes for a nagging, low-grade anxiety among nervous Democrats and brings a gleam to the eye of McCain.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/09/clinton.supporters/index.html

[mcctatas]

1. OMG....

Katie bar the door, the same Clinton supporters are still making the same people nervous (as reported by the MSM)...

[dkf]

2. The more susceptible you are to move the way she tells you, the more

power she has. And she has even more power if you tell pollsters you won't vote for Obama unless she is on the ticket. You are her bargaining chip after all, the only one she has.

Sad but true.

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[jgraz]

4. As I suspected, the article lists exactly ZERO Democrats who are nervous about this.

Classic yellow journalism. And you fell for it. :rofl:

[Beacool]

6. Read the comment section.

Dozens of posts of Dems saying that they won't vote for Obama should be of concern to the party.

[jgraz]

8. Yes, we should really be worried about "dozens" of votes

Let Harriet and Kyle go work for McSame. Hopefully, they'll fuck up his campaign as badly as they did Hillary's.

[anonymous171]

16. dems should be in quotations. Democrats vote for democratic party nominees or liberal third parties.

They do not vote for republicans.

[Eric Condon]

18. And four more years of Bu$h policies SHOULD be the concern of those voters, IF they're Democrats.

But as I think we've learned, they're not. And if they're a) not Democrats and b) voting for McCain, I think that gives a pretty good indication of what they are.

[Butch350]

19. Hey..

The Patriots got over it - So should the Clintonites!

[madfloridian]

5. Well, I was just told to ignore them.

:shrug:

[FrenchieCat]

7. So Hillary is not much of a leader afterall. Can't get her supporters

to do shit.

Thank God she ain't our nominee! She's ineffectual.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

9. Wednesday. nt

[symbolman]

10. well, I guess after Obama wins

we can herd them all into the "Personality Reintegration" camps and sort it out there..

Otherwise known as the "No Drama Obama" course :)

[newmajority]

11. The DLC and the Whore Media are conspiring to force Hillary as VP

"We can't win without her" is the lie. But we have, and we will.

[FrenchieCat]

12. You got it.......

Guess Hillary's gone undercover. Says one thing in a speech, but don't hear her denounce those threatening to vote McCain.

I didn't think she had leadership qualities. Now I know it for sure.

[tblue]

13. Justice John Paul Stevens is 88 years old.

Enough said.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. They do not make me nervous....

but the bullshit they sell to others, is not good.

[iconicgnom]

15. a sound especially disturbing to Republicans: tick tick tick ...

[Butch350]

17. One Thing For Sure

There will be no 2012 for Hillary!

[Aqaba]

20. Idiocy

Obama is a high-speed, supersonic, energy-efficient, bullet-locomotive that is just about to embark upon a US tour.

I don't know if there will be a more lopsided presidential vote ever.

Remember in Lord of the Rings, at the very beginning, when Sauron was smiting people with his mace like 20 people per swing? That is exactly the kind of kick ass Barack Obama brings to the table (cept that he isn't the dark lord heh). Pissy Hillary supporters can, in the words of the effable Thomas Friedman, SUCK ON THIS.

McCain is so weak. Even with disgruntled Hillary supporters, my bet is he barely breaks 40% of the popular vote. Thats the 30% morons plus the other morons which happens to include disgruntled Hillary supporters who actually vote for nearly-last-in-his-class.

[rpannier]

21. I read it and I don't buy it (in the long term)

After every candidate drops out there is always a small portion of their supporters who are disgruntled and threaten to bolt the party. Yet that seldom happens (I read somewhere it's less than 10% of their supporters).

In addition, the number of anonymous Democrats listed also makes me a little sceptical of the people who claim to be looking elsewhere.

And last, but not least, if they're really bolting, they're not going to bolt to mcbush.

As to the people who are writing in the comments section...
I can go to any website and write, "As a republican I will NEVER vote for mccain unless he picks huckabee as his veep."

[onetwo]

22. Are we forgetting that there many, many Repubs that aren't happy with THEIR OWN candidate?

When you have Limbaugh and Hannity and the rest regularly taking pot shots at the Republican nominee, you KNOW a Dem is going to be in the White House despite all of the BS.

[murielm99]

23. Those people are not Democrats.

And there are probably fewer of them than the MSM is portraying. They are hand-wringing and saying, "Oh, dear, oh dear" just to generate publicity and ratings.

[npincus]

24. talk about a cult-mentality!

Obama and Hillary are not very far apart policy-wise; McCain is a parallel universe. These "grumblers" apparantly don't know their ass from a hole in the wall or why they are Democrats; they have fallen into a cultish obsession with their candidate. Hopefully, they will snap out of it when the GE kicks in. This election is about GOVERNING, and if these so-called Dems think they will flourish under a McCain presidency, they will wake up when their reproductive freedoms are snatched from then, and after McCain attacks Iran, $4 gas will be nostalgiac.

These people will "come home", or enough of them will, so the grumblers can vote for McCain, and it won't matter.

BTW, the grumblers ought to know how McCain dumped his first wife, after she was disfigured in a car wreck and put on weight. Let's see how many grumblers have an appetite to vote for him after that.

[Teaser]

25. it ain't bothering me

because its 300 people.