Clinton tells Democrats: Don't vote for McCain

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) – Hillary Clinton pleaded for partisan unity on Thursday, urging Democrats not to abandon their party to vote for John McCain if their preferred candidate fails to secure the nomination.

Clinton was asked by a questioner in the audience here what she would tell frustrated Democrats who might consider voting for McCain in the general election out of spite.

“Please think through this decision,” Clinton said, laughing and emphasizing the word “please.”

“It is not a wise decision for yourself or your country.”

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/27/clinton-tells-democrats-dont-vote-for-mccain/

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Speaking as a former Clintonite who switched to Obama when I thought her campaign tactics were getting too aggressively harsh, I have never agreed with the speculation that, if she can't win the nomination, she actually wants Obama to lose to McCain so she can run again in 2012.

[Nitrogenica]

1. Well it's about freaking time, lady!

Have some cake.

[calimary]

4. Shit - why aren't we seeing this photo EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE????

I swear - the idiocy and milquetoast crap out of our party when it comes to fighting the OTHER guys - just simply blows my mind. I would be buying EVERY billboard I could afford, in EVERY city I could afford it in, from now til the day before the election to plaster this picture all over the place from coast-to-coast. Along with the date - while New Orleans was drowning.

This is being handed to us on a silver plate. And our folks are just rolling over and going back to sleep. OR fighting amongst each other.

Just makes me NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:grr: :mad: :banghead:

[natrat]

6. can you say owned by corporations an the billionares

[jbrownstein]

10. Shit - why aren't we seeing this photo EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE????

damn party has lost it's backbone and their mouths - all I can
see before us is the rise and fall of the american empire

[Amonester]

13. Here's another one (montage by IanDB1)(and welcome to DU):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1738119&mesg_id=1738333

[calimary]

18. Welcome to DU! We are not the people of amoebas. Maybe most of our reps are,

but WE are not. You'll find plenty of backbone here. Maybe that's why they can't relate to us and why they don't seem to hear us. They can't even speak out language.

[lark]

27. Argh

Dem pols in general just don't have spines, it seems to be genetic? I was happy last night to hear Obama refer to McBush's 3rd term, thought that was clever and to the point.

[sutz12]

36. I like this photo, too

[movonne]

2. I'm not a clinton supporter but I am glad she said that...

[Noirceuil]

3. Hillary is a Classy Lady...

Unfortunately Obama and his supporters have no class. As a result, I will stay home on election day if he is the nominee. I encourage all Hillary supporters to do the same.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. That'll be a big help.

Maybe McCain will invite yuou to his inauguration.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. That kind of thinking has kept the Bush Genocide Gang in power for almost a decade.

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A republican win will not surprise me as I see this attitude expressed on one of the more liberal boards consistently

You are not alone - I see many here that will defeat the democratic movement,

Most are not by intent, but ignorance and emotion.

"ignorance and emotion" got you Bush 1 and 2

time for a change in tactics.

Stay home then,

but don't whine about the results.

[darue]

9. but why?

I admit I was tempted to withhold my consent and not vote, but really, that won't help anything either. you may not like Obama but how could you possibly be so opposed to him that you would ignore the opinion of more than half your fellow party members? What do you see that makes you think he is so completely unfit to serve? unity is the only path to something like victory.

I'll go with whatever, don't love either of them, but voting AGAINST the admiral's son is my priority.

[Jennicut]

11. Yup, stay home and then watch McCain become president. Utter stupidity.

Guess what? I will vote for Hillary is she is our nominee and I support Obama and voted for him already in the CT primary. But I am not going to let a Republican have my vote nor will I let them take away a vote from the Democrats. Hillary and Obama have more class than all the Rethugs combined simply because they chose to Democrats. If you stay home you are no longer a Dem in my eyes-you are a nobody.

[unkachuck]

15. "Hillary is a Classy Lady..."

"Unfortunately Obama and his supporters have no class."

....oh my....tell you what, I'll promise to vote for hillary if you promise to vote for Obama?

....and you'd have to admit, I would be making the greater sacrifice....

[Jim Sagle]

17. Classier than you, evidently.

[Kool Kitty]

19. Gee, what a great idea, genius.

Nice to see that Hillary's got the right idea. Pay attention to the lady-she's talking to YOU.

[lark]

28. So, all war all the time

is OK with you? Children not having insurance coverage is OK? Making the Bushco tax cuts for the rich permanent is OK? That's what you'll get if you don't vote for the Democrat - regardless of who she/he is. Even if you don't care for all the arrogance of Obama and supporters, PLEASE hold your nose and vote for him anyway if he's "your" party's rep.

[Voltaire99]

31. Hee hee. Why is somebody with a baseball symbol next to their name...

...giving lectures on "class"?

Very amusing!

Got any more dugout logic to share with us? Ho ho!

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

34. you would encourage....

your fellow man to embrace the destiny of another 4 years of the republican regime, 100 years in Iraq, more forecloseures, less medical care (the list goes on and on) -cutting off your nose to spite your face? What kind of person are you?

Personally, I think the Hildabeast is little more than a closet republican, that being said, I will vote the party line if she manages to get the nomination.

[neverforget]

8. When the time comes, I would like to see Hillary give a concession

speech like Gore did in 2000. That went a long ways in my book as to what kind of man Gore really was: a President. If Hillary were to do that, she could mend fences quite quickly and I for one, would think better of her.

As an Obama supporter, if her were to lose, I would want him to do the same to mend fences with Hillary supporters and unite the Democrats to fight McCain.

[defendandprotect]

12. Good for HRC . . . and then let's presume that her first accolades for

McCain's experience --- on a par with hers -- will be forgotten . . .

[Demeter]

20. Hillary Was Quite Truthful In the Comparison

Which is why she's losing....

[defendandprotect]

26. "Experience" can be something quite difference in our minds . . .

the experience which leads to lies is to be avoided ---
the experience which leads anyone to think that we should "bomb Iran" would be out for me.
Also --- "hundred year wars" and "generation wars."

The experience which says that this is another phony war and should have been avoided --- ?
I'm for it!!!

[Zorra]

14. No Democrat will vote for McCain. Only a Reagan DINO would commit such a heinous

act of treason.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

16. Yup.

And guard the potted plants. I think we have a few DINOs sniffing around here. :mad:

[tledford]

30. Maybe treason overstates it a bit...

But there is no question that a vote for McCain, regardless of whether you support Clinton or Obama, is self-destructive to the point of insanity for anyone who has an annual income of fewer than seven figures.

If you vote for McCain, the economic destruction of our country that will continue will result in four years wherein 98% of us (Americans, regardless of political views or party affiliations; this is about MONEY, people) will wish we were dead.

So, if you're thinking about voting for McCain, why not do yourself and your country a favor? Go out and buy one of those easy-to-obtain shotguns at Walmart, load it, put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger.

[NutmegYankee]

21. guess not making ads for him would be the next step... n/t

[depakid]

22. Then there's the hug

I can't think of many people of any stripe who won't have a look at this and not wonder- particularly if they also know what Bush & Co. said about his family:

[IsItJustMe]

23. I think she is insane. Her and Billy go around the country promoting McCain's experience and

patriotism and then she comes back and says stuff like this. I don't trust her as far as I can spit.

Beleive me, you never want a friend in life like the Clintons. Most people forget that there are two legged snakes in the world also.

[Megahurtz]

24. Yeah,

she should have said this from the start, not lifting up McCain like she did.

[lark]

29. She has said this all along

It was Obama that said his supporters wouldn't vote for Hillary.

[Megahurtz]

38. Don't you remember

the videos of Clinton telling everyone that both her and McCain have more experience? Check it out. She should never have done that.

[hatrack]

25. Good idea, Hillary!

:eyes:

[Voltaire99]

32. Whatever you say, Tonya Harding!

Meanwhile, stop trying to kneecap the nominee, you vicious, unprincipled cesspool of ambition.

[HockeyMom]

33. I do

I think if she cannot win the nomination, she wants Obama to lose to McCain to better her chantes in 2012. As a New Yorker, just think what she did to Nita Lowey.

If I had had the choice between Hillary and Nita, I would have chosen Nita.

No, I won't vote for McCain. I will stay home, which I haven't in 30 years of voting.

[TheLastMohican]

35. With attitudes like that

Think about McCain already won.
Democrats fighting each other is the best thing that can happen to a Bush-bot, version 1.0 who is soon to become pResident.

[goforit]

37. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton will support McCain if Hillary looses.