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

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

I can definitely understand feeling angry and betrayed that a qualified female candidate was passed over... but at this point, my default assumption is that anyone planning to vote for McCain who is otherwise a Democrat in both their policy positions and tribal identification, who can't give a coherent issues-oriented explanation for throwing their vote to the other side this time, is a racist. Not that they'd ever admit it.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I can understand the angry, because I used to get angry every time a qualified progressive candidate was passed over in favor of yet another lukewarm corporate friendly centrist Democrat. I guess I just grew accustomed to it.