2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf you consider staying home if Hilary is the candidate
or, for that matter, for any Democratic Presidential nominee, here is what Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard and a Fox commentator wrote in the WSJ:
"Why the Stakes in 2016 Are So High - dont forget the four Supreme Court justices who are 76 or older." (These are Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg and Breyer).
This is what it's all about: the Supreme Court. Yes, I've read comments here that this does not head a list of issues for some. But none of the other issues can be attended to without the Supreme Court.
So whether it is Hillary, or Schweitzer, Web or Warren - if you are not going to vote for the nominee, you should not then complain about, say, another Citizens United, reversal of Roe ("should be left to the states", yeah, right), even reversal of the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut, that stated the right to privacy.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)When she lost the Democratic primary to Barack Obama, I aligned to support him.
I see no reason to do otherwise if HRC wins the Democratic primaries.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)And your dad too?
I'm flattered.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)regarding political matters. But he had a saying for everything...I mean everything. Most of them stuck.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Even if we skip forward a year, right now, the convention is months away.
Why worry about this sort of thing right now?
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Just not for candidates who ignore the working class and support wars of choice.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)And California is a winner take all state, it will probably go to the Democrat, all the electoral votes.
If it looks close AND Hillary is the on the ballot, I might have to reconsider.
Otherwise I won't do it.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)I live in California and have the luxury of voting my conscience, and that will not be for her.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Except I am registered in Oregon, which if she is the nominee I'm sure she will win. I'll vote for whomever else looks good in the primary. I'm sure the nomination will be settled before Oregon's primary in late May making my vote moot point.
By the way I don't stay home, I vote by mail.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)Don't vote=republican win.
Vote third party=republican win.
Vote republican=country loses.
Hillary not my favorite, but, if she is the nominee, she has my vote.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)If we are destroyed by a nuclear war with Russia, then naming of Supreme Court justices is not going to be an issue. We need to look at the full spectrum of what each candidate has to offer.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)That way, once they totally gut the government, and everything has burned to the ground, we can rebuild the liberal utopia we all dream of.
Letting Hillary become President would slow the process down, thus delaying the arrival of the new order.
question everything
(47,486 posts)But, as I stated above, they will nominate young-ish Supreme Court justices that will affect generations to come.
And... seeing that so many voters in red states who are dependent on government payments still clamor for "small government" - I am not sure that the message would be heard.
apnu
(8,758 posts)I was a Obama supporter in 2007, if Hillary had beat him, i would have voted for her. If she's the nominee this time, i will happily vote for her.
Splinter Cell
(703 posts)Never.