America Must Pay For My Hurt Feelings...?

There is an attitude among both Obama and Clinton supporters that has been expressed ad nauseum, which states that if YOUR candidate does not win, then you are not going to vote for the Democrat who DOES win the primary. This post is primarily addressed to those weho have expressed such a sentiment.

I need to get this straight: If you have had your feelings hurt here on DU (or on any other website, or by a TV host you feel has been unfair to your candidate, or by a news article you didn't like, etc.), then you are going to take that hurt out on America - by NOT voting for the Democratic nominee.

Do I have this correct?

So - do you feel that, unless YOUR candidate wins, America isn't worth saving from the Republicans?

Or are your own hurt feelings, which will pass in time, more valuable to you than your - and my - country?

I'd really like to know, please.

or said something unkind about a person's preferred candidate that the punishment should be that person's candidate should lose and America should have a Republican president who could totally pack the Supreme Court with conservative justices who would impact things in this country for a generation. How could one argue with such impeccable logic?

The rules going in were Florida and Miochigan will not count.

So long as Hillary Clinton does not win by changing those rules and penalizing Obama for following those rules as well as complying with a request from the aprty to remove his name from the Michigan ballot, I would vote for Clinton.

by far. K/R

hand wringing calls for "unity" and calls for blood oaths of loyalty

it's just a fact - if the DNC enforces an over ride of the elected delegates there WILL be hell to pay

WILL

nothing will change that

The Democratic Party, finally has two options

GROW OR GO

Who ya gonna vote for in the fall?

Then there are all the options available to all of us when we get involved at our precincts and change the party from within.

And it could use a little dusting off.

With that attitude, no wonder we are so divided....

It is very possible for "supporters" to alienate the people that the campaign hopes to attract.

If you ever used words and phrases like, "Waaaaahmbulance," "Nobama," or "Shrillary" in this forum, this season, you're the problem, not us.

Me? I've put up with sexist and gender based attacks, being called racist, "we thought so much better of you," and more. You want me voting for Obama, he's going to have to offer more than the appearance of change.

How do you deal with real life?

Not a question for you JFN1, but rather one for the myriad posters here with issues over the nomination process.

I echo your sentiments and agree with your analysis.

country. (Not talking about people not supporting the Dem nominee, just saying countries are not that damn important.)

Remember Nixon's famous line: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more."

that on MSNBC a bit ago, Chuck Todd (on Verdict, I think) mentioned a statistic that said 34% of Clinton supporters said they would vote for McCain over Obama, and 12% said they just wouldn't vote at all. I didn't see the statistics for Obama supporters, so I can't speak to them factually, but I know, on DU anyway, there have been many posts by Obama supporters which said basically the same thing.

Most that I have seen--and this is in no way scientific--are 'if the supers overturn the process' arguments, rather than 'Hillary supporters are so mean.' IMHO, I believe there's a huge difference between the two: one is about democracy, and the other is about egoism.

Let's hope that we don't have to face the nightmare scenario of a super-d coup.

since they lied us into the War in Iraq. It's only gone down hill from there, but I will call them up and complain when my outrage hits a high mark. I am outraged by Senator Clinton's outrageously divisive, rule breaking, self serving, Party be damned Campaign tactics. What people say here reflects their own character. We all choose our own words. It has nothing to do with a candidate or anything else.

so I went home and beat my wife.

kick the goldfish and slap the cat?

:rofl: