Reply #154: Question for all the "my candidate or nobody" posters. [View All]

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Suppose your candidate wins the nomination. What are you going to say to the supporters of all the other candidates? Surely you can't expect to win in the general election without the party united behind your candidate.

Wouldn't you expect people to rise above their anger and disappointment? Wouldn't you expect people to look at the big picture and see the necessity, first and foremost, of getting Bush out of the White House?

Sure, you're angry about smears and cheap shots against your candidate. But every significant candidate has had to endure smears and cheap shots. Just for a quick overview, there's the "angry man" stuff about Dean, the Skull and Bones stuff about Kerry, the DINO stuff about Clark, and the "pretty boy" stuff about Edwards. That's just politics. If you're going to become hateful about it, why shouldn't supporters of other candidates feel the same way? And then where would you be if your guy DID get the nomination?