http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6285785Oh my.
Fighting Irish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:22 AM
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Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online
They're mad as hell, and Hillary Clinton's supporters aren't going to take it anymore.
Some Clintonites are so mad about Barack Obama's Tuesday victory that they've launched a web site to build support to launch a lobbying group to support Republican John McCain.
"We're going to run campaign ads to defeat Obama," says Ed Hale, a 63-year-old rancher and a Clinton supporter from Wellington, Texas. "We have doctors, lawyers, CPAs, the blue bloods, and then we have rednecks like me. It's a very diversified organization."
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Hale launched the "Hillary Clinton Supporters for John McCain" group last Saturday. The campaign claims to have 5,000 supporters, and its website visitor counter says that it has already attracted 37,8071 visitors.
"Last night, when they crowned Obama king, that's when I sent my e-mails out to people, and since then, we've gotten thousands of hits," he says.
Hale, a Vietnam veteran and a long-time Democrat, says that many of the group's supporters are Reagan Democrats, and their primary concern is foreign policy and defense. A call to the Texas Democratic Party confirmed that he was supposed to have been a delegate to the state convention this week.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/angry-clinton-...
Reagan Democrats my ass. They're Republicans.
Watch this one get its 15 minutes, then fade.
You know, the primitives don't understand that this is a "non-issue" with Republicans.
It's likely that a few supporters of Hillary Clinton will end up voting for John McCain, but a much larger percentage, maybe perhaps half, will grudgingly vote for Barry "Goldwater" Obama.
But there's no point in courting the few supporters of Hillary Clinton who will end up voting for John McCain; best just to leave them alone.
However, because of the sheer Hatred and contempt of the Obamaites for the worthier Democrat candidate and her supporters, there's much that can be mined from this, to the extent of subtly encouraging millions of supporters of Hillary Clinton from voting for president at all in November.
I'm guessing that if things are done right, anywhere between 33-40% of the supporters of Hillary Clinton can be encouraged to skip voting for president (but of course they'll vote for candidates for lower offices)--and the Hatred and contempt of the Obamaites for the worthier Democrat candidate and her supporters makes our job easier, a whole lot easier.
nomad1776 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:27 AM
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2. It took an intervention to get Hillary to realize and accept she lost
is it any surprise that many of her supporters are equally out of touch?
Jersey Devil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:27 AM
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3. "Reagan Democrats" tells the story
They were never Democrats, just disenchanted right wing types who claimed to have been Democrats in the past. I have one of those in my family, an uncle who calls himself a "Reagan Democrat". The truth is he hasn't voted for a Democrat since Harry Truman.
I suspect that many of these really radical Hillary "supporter" sites belong to people like that and that real Democrats who support Hillary do not have that kind of animosity toward Obama and will vote for him once theey have some time to deal with their disappointment and emotions.
I don't think they will, not after we get done reminding them how much the Obamaite primitives Hate them.
berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:28 AM
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4. Their Anger has Turned to Insanity. This is why it was so wrong for Clinton to tout McCain
Because she said so many nice things about McCain, her more insane and/or idiotic supporters are flocking to McCain out of insane anger. And it's anger that she created within them. She could have assuaged that anger by endorsing Obama on Tuesday night.
Yeah, right.
NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:28 AM
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6. they are not Reagan Dems, they are spoiled crybaby losers who felt entitled
now they are going to damn this country out of spite that they didnt get what they wanted. The absolute worst kind of person and I hope that they have kids that are of draft age to send to fuel McSame's next and continuing wars.
This HATE is not for her supporters that convert to support the Democratic Nominee but only those who "take their ball and go to McSame's camp".
The night crawling primitive needs to take out a card with the AFL-CIO local of cinema projectors.
ObamaVision (41 posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:29 AM
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7. Sore Losers For Hillary would be a better name for their little self-pity group.
mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-05-08 08:30 AM
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9. "rednecks like me" Cross-over Republicans who supported Hillary
Oh my.
