RePost. Nominating the Clintons is a bad idea!!! [View All]

[Perky]

For the life of me, I can not figure out why in the world we would want to nominate someone who is so abjectly polarizing as Hillary Clinton. Given the Republican Attack machine does anyone really think she is going to effectively move voters in swing states to secure the election in November? At best it is a crap shoot. She is despised by the right. She is the Poster Child of Polarization. Perhaps none of it is of her doing, but it is absurd to think that she can unring that bell.If Hillary is the nominee the election will not be about Iraq or the economy or about healthcare. It will be about Hillary. No thanks.

She may have vision....she may have guts...she may well be the most experienced..but that is not where voters in Middle America make their decision.


The hallmark of great presidents is that they are able to call the nation together and that nation responds affirmatively or at least the middle third. Reagan was a sixty percenter. He got things through a Tip O'Neal-led Congress. How?... by pulling in enough Dem support in the hustings to scare the Dems in office.

Nothing in Hillary's makeup or history suggest that she is either able to or even wants to do that,There is no reason the right candidate can not do the same thing again as a Democrat...But it surely will not be Hillary,

Even if she could run a Northern strategy and pick up win in November it is going to be by a slim electoral margin. The election is one or lost in the middle: its like the 162 game baseball season. we win 1/3rd we lose 1/3rd.. It all depends on what we do with the remaining third in this case the 180 electoral votes that are up for grabs. I want someone who will draw a bigger coalition against a weak GOP standard bearer rather than someone who might get just 96 electoral votes against a united energized GOP. and where is that going to leave us?

No mandate for change.
No Mandate to get us out of Iraq
No Mandate on kitchen table issues.
Four more years of the politics of personal destruction and gotcha politics.

You see it is not enough just to win. You do not have to suck up to the the GOP to get problems fixed But you do have to have swing voters solidly in your court. Not because your solutions are perfect...but because you have the ability to inspire trust that you have their interest at heart; that the issues are real and that the GOP leadership is clueless and obstructionist.

You can't do that when you are the poster child for divisive politics. Half the country simply does not trust Hillary Clinton or her judgment. The whole of the nation is crying out for change.

It is not enough that she is the most experienced or even the most "qualified". It is not enough that she would give the GOP fits with her election. However much delight we might take in that, it solves nothing. What will she be able to get accomplished if after two years of filibusters, we lose the the mid terms?

Why would we want to institutionalize the 50% formula of the last two elections? Hell the last forty years????

The Democratic Party has not had a mandate election since 1964. We have only won a majority twice since. Carter in 1976 and AL Gore in 2000


Where for the love of God tell me is the upside to having this woman be our standard bearer?

She is the epitome of a Pyrrhic candidacy. Why are some us willing to destroy the nation in order to to secure such a shallow self-serving victory????