I am a liberal Democrat. The first bumper sticker I put on my car during the last presidential
primary was "Bernie!" I did not dislike Hillary Clinton, but several of Sanders' positions were representative of what I thought our party should be advocating but had not said out loud in quite a while. I supported Bernie, but I kept listening to all the candidates; ours and theirs.
Gradually, I came to realize that, while Republican presidential candidates are always pretty disgusting, this Trump guy was an out and out racist maniac and an existential threat to me, my family and my country. I also started to assess those seeking our nomination by judging them not just on the basis of what they SAID they wanted to do, but also on the basis of what could they deliver. HOPES are wonderful, but laying out reasonable and understandable PLANS is the next step for someone seeking our highest office.
Eventually, I scraped off the Bernie sticker and replaced it with several of Hillary's and I not only contributed money to her campaign, I worked my butt off in a deep red area
to try to get her elected. I had decided that she was the real deal, the whole package and our best bet to protect us from the insane clown and his posse.
It did not bother me at all that Barack Obama was black or that Hillary Clinton was a woman. They were "quality" AND--- they were DEMOCRATS.
I will again listen and judge and possibly change my mind once or twice. But, I will not consider "Democrats of convenience" or those whose announced mission is to "straighten out" the Democratic Party. I will support our nominee without limitations, even if one or two would embarrass me.
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Or at least I spoke for him in the caucus and he carried my precinct.
But you know, the stakes are going to be really high for 2020. Really high. We've GOT to win.
So, to use an old cliche, if the Democrats run a yellow dog, that dog will have my vote.
Yeah, I'll fight in the primary for who I think best (and against who I think worst), but when the dust settles, I'm going to give the person we run every bit of support I possibly can, all the way to election day.
Because THIS YELLOW LAB would be a better president than ANY Republican!
It might take that much to cover Bernie's camera addiction.
Truthful. Concise.
Now that he's running again, these easily debunked myths are being trotted-out to show what a "good Democrat" he is and how he's a true "team player" and those stories are simply not true. He may be running again, but nothing else has changed. His support of the Democratic party is conditional and reluctant and fleeting. Running again as a Democrat is just a means to an ends.
And, OMG, honestly... that "on her worst day" line was really hamfisted and awkward. It sounds like an insincere backhanded compliment than anything else.
Fact of the matter is that after the convention, he got a very late start in campaigning for her. He didn't do it very often. There was even a moment where he came right out and abdicated by explaining that it wasn't HIS job to help convince his supporters to support Hillary. Honestly, the whole thing was very laissez-faire and very que será será. It was culminated with Jane's election eve (election day?) comment that it didn't matter WHO one votes for, as long as they vote. (Nice team spirit, eh?)
Here's a short interview with Hillary where she describes it very well.
"And that feeds-in, I think, to the whole sexism and misogyny part of this campaign. I had large groups of supporters who had to be private because if they lifted their head up online, if they were, you know, responding on a YouTube comment chain, or on Twitter to something, they would just attack! And the attacks were so sexist about "well you're supporting a woman cause you're a woman," and they just never really got to the facts."
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