The thing that I don't get

[cyrano]

And maybe it's because I'm a patriarch in a patriarchal society, but I don't get the "Nobody But Clinton" schism in the Democratic Party. The last time we had a primary, Howard Dean failed to win. And, despite shoddy treatment from the party elite, a hack job from the media, and a lack of votes cast for Dean, I did not see a Deaniacs4Bush.com website nor a demand to assuage the rifts and gaping chasms in the party base. In fact, in *most* of the presidential primaries we have at least one candidate who doesn't win. It's an unfortunate side effect of having a candidate who wins. The winner is rarely my first choice, and often it's somebody that I can barely stomach. But that doesn't mean that I decide to throw my support to a candidate whose views are even further from my own.

Comments

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I think a lot of those people are women who are all pissy that the woman didn't win the dem nomination. And gee, look, McCain put a woman on his ticket.

FWIW, I've now gotten two "Democrats for Bush" bumper stickers stuck onto my car over the "George W. Bush, Weapon of Mass Destruction" sticker, so it's not a completely new phenomenon.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'd figured that the people who printed up and shared the 'Democrats for Bush' stickers were not, in fact, dues paying members of the Democratic Party. Being pressganged into a bumper sticker is different than the folks at some of these websites who are actual Democrats/liberals that would rather see McCain in the White House because.... he didn't beat Clinton.