Let me channel the words of Hairy S. Trueman in regard to the bold statements below:
Star Member DemocratSinceBirth (51,829 posts)
To DU members who oppose Hillary Clinton
That is your right and I will defend it to my last breath...If you believe she is not progressive enough or her progressivism is feigned it is your inalienable right to hold and express those views. That's what D U is for.
What cause some of you grief is when right wing lines of attack are used to attack her. If Hillary wasn't the presumptive candidate the Republicants and their lackeys in the main stream press would be attacking your preferred candidates. To than end I offer you this:
In 1988 they turned Mike Dukakis into a milquetoast mental patient who deliberately let rapists out on furlough while his wife burned the American flag.
In 1992 they crucified Bill Clinton over a land deal where he lost money and that he had a girlfriend.
In 1996 see above.
In 2000 they turned Al Gore into a serial exaggerator who said he invented the internet, discovered Love Canal, and was the basis with his wife for the movie "Love Story",
In 2004 in the most audacious attack of all they turned a war hero (John Kerry) who was awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star into a malfeasant officer who shot himself and a teenager who was running away in the back.
In 2008 they turned our president into an illegal alien and a crypto-Muslim "who palled around with terrorists".
In 2012, see above...
Let's attacks our candidates on the issues and leave the character attacks to the Republicans and their lackeys in the main stream press...
when he said, in response to someone saying "Give 'em hell, Hairy" , "I don't give 'em hell, I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
