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minivan2

(214 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:41 PM Jun 2014

I hate to break it to you folks, but...

Hillary will be our nominee and our next president. Personally, Hillary isn't my first choice, I want Warren to run and be our president, but she's said countless times she's not running. Even though Hillary isn't liberal enough for me, I'll still vote for her because the moment a repub becomes president, all hell will break loose.

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I hate to break it to you folks, but... (Original Post) minivan2 Jun 2014 OP
Voting from a perspective of fear is not an empowered act 1000words Jun 2014 #1
Thank goodness - you saved us all a lot of time el_bryanto Jun 2014 #2
In that case RainDog Jun 2014 #3
Im voting for her MFM008 Jun 2014 #4
Ditto. Me too. n/t RebelOne Jun 2014 #15
Thanks. I'll give up trying to support a better candidate, and accept what I'm given. arcane1 Jun 2014 #5
"I will tell you the future for a very reasonable fee" quinnox Jun 2014 #6
yet another campaign as a democrat govern as a republican election lol nt msongs Jun 2014 #7
Ugh! SammyWinstonJack Jun 2014 #8
Minivan is absolutely right... world wide wally Jun 2014 #9
I won't vote for Hillary. Period. Maedhros Jun 2014 #10
I was told the same thing in 2007 and 2008, lol. morningfog Jun 2014 #11
Let's get through the primaries before declaring a winner. Marrah_G Jun 2014 #12
Jesus Fucking Christ on a pancake. LWolf Jun 2014 #13
LOL! 2+ years out and it's over. Dawgs Jun 2014 #14
Do you have access to party poobahs nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #16
Oh, ok. Thanks. I will continue to wait, and actively support some others. nt silvershadow Jun 2014 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Jun 2014 #18
Come back in 2 years Lurks Often Jun 2014 #19
There's a big midterm election in 4 months, FYI IronLionZion Jun 2014 #20
I think there are far too many random variables to be so certain deutsey Jun 2014 #21
Clintons do poorly in Iowa. And Sanders has home field advantage in New Hampshire. ieoeja Jun 2014 #22
If Hillary is the Democratic Party Nominee the Republican will win Exposethefrauds Jun 2014 #23
 

1000words

(7,051 posts)
1. Voting from a perspective of fear is not an empowered act
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:43 PM
Jun 2014

The (New) Democratic Party is counting on folks like you. Enjoy the New World Order. You're making it happen ...

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
2. Thank goodness - you saved us all a lot of time
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:44 PM
Jun 2014

We might have campaigned for a more liberal candidate, one that you might have been happier to vote for. But now we can not waste our time - I'm going to finish up watching Burn Notice.

Bryant

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
3. In that case
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:45 PM
Jun 2014

I hope she confounds her detractors and becomes the force that undoes the corporate usurpation of democracy. She can be the insider, as FDR was, that saves democracy from the oligarchs.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
5. Thanks. I'll give up trying to support a better candidate, and accept what I'm given.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:51 PM
Jun 2014

No point in trying to change the world, right?

world wide wally

(21,714 posts)
9. Minivan is absolutely right...
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:15 PM
Jun 2014

and voting for the lesser of two evils is NOT worse than allowing absolute disaster.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
10. I won't vote for Hillary. Period.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:16 PM
Jun 2014

If enough people say that, and if the Democratic leadership hears it, she won't be the candidate.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
13. Jesus Fucking Christ on a pancake.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:30 PM
Jun 2014

Which is where you must be getting your visions of the future. From what's left of any hope for change, roadkill squashed flatter than that pancake.

It's campaign season. For November of 2014.

Nobody is running in a primary yet, let alone earning any nominations.

Can you possibly be any more of a hope killer? You really think that telling people that the primaries don't matter and they can just suck up another neoliberal president is going to motivate anyone to campaign or GOTV?

Response to minivan2 (Original post)

 

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)
19. Come back in 2 years
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 09:49 AM
Jun 2014

Predictions this far out are useless and someone from either party that appears to be the front runner now, could disappear by the time the party convention comes around in 2016 due to health issues, doing/saying something truly stupid or just because they no longer want the damn job.

 

ieoeja

(9,748 posts)
22. Clintons do poorly in Iowa. And Sanders has home field advantage in New Hampshire.
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 02:17 PM
Jun 2014

After she loses the first two primaries, and the odds are now against her in both states, people will start seeing her as a non-viable candidate.

I will be very, very surprised if Hillary continues past Super Tuesday.


 

Exposethefrauds

(531 posts)
23. If Hillary is the Democratic Party Nominee the Republican will win
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 02:43 PM
Jun 2014

Just like Harry Truman said........

'Given the choice between a republican and someone who acts a republican, people will vote for the real republican all the time.'

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