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Cosmocat

(14,565 posts)
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 10:00 AM Feb 2016

it starts today - Please keep this in mind

I know this is going to be lost on many, but I have to try.

The republicans are a SERIOUS threat to this country. This cannot be overstated enough.

I won't vote until April, and regardless of how it looks, I am voting Bernie.

He is the best candidate - more right on the issues and one of, literally, as many as you can count on one hand, number of democrats who will flat out stake his positions without equivocation, and that is something we have LONG lost as an expectation for democrats.

I see Hillary for what she is - warmed over, and a moderate democrat who is a flat out politician.

And, that makes her 1,000,000 times better than any R would be.


We are fucked, literally, and absolutely, if we get an R POTUS, because he will have an R congress, both the house and senate.

It is unfathomable, frankly.

I will leave that point at that, and add a side note from the other ticket.

We want NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to do with Marco Rubio as their general election candidate. He is a better GWB as a candidate - has created a "moderate" veneer, and has the charm and looks (even better). He would win the general election by a wide margin, regardless of whoever the D candidate is, who will get vilified as all Ds do while he WILL be fawned over for 8 months as the sainted regeneration of Ronald Reagen by a national media swooning like teenage girls did over the Beatles a half decade ago.

If you have a root against in you, it should be reserved 100% for him.

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it starts today - Please keep this in mind (Original Post) Cosmocat Feb 2016 OP
While I disagree with you about my preferred primary candidate, I 100% agree about the threat of a DanTex Feb 2016 #1
If Hillary is our nominee gyroscope Feb 2016 #2
This is what they do to democrats Cosmocat Feb 2016 #3

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
1. While I disagree with you about my preferred primary candidate, I 100% agree about the threat of a
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 10:12 AM
Feb 2016

GOP president. It would be a disaster.

Whoever comes out of the primary on our side needs to become president. That is by far the most important thing. My preference is Hillary, but if Bernie or Martin are the nominee, they will have no stronger supporter than me, I will donate to them, I will talk to people I know about them, and I will vote for them.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
2. If Hillary is our nominee
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 10:16 AM
Feb 2016

its almost guaranteed lost in general.
I would still vote for her but she has the worst likability polling of anyone but Trump.

Cosmocat

(14,565 posts)
3. This is what they do to democrats
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 11:23 AM
Feb 2016

three decades of piling on her.

I agree, she is seriously damaged.

But, part of it is the primary, too ...

Too many folks willing to go for the bullshit slander for the sake of the primary ...

Bernie will not be immune to this, they will turn on him like they did with BHO when he overtook Hillary 8 years ago.

Hell, BHO spent months being drug down for not wearing a flag pin ...

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