Wow (courtesy of angry_biscuit)

[veronica_rich]

Um ... how fucking self-defeating can you be?

Seriously ... your female candidate loses, so instead of getting over it and voting for the next best thing being offered in this particular election to what you wanted, you're going for the senile white guy who wants to stay at war for 100 years, and privatize Social Security (among other things not desirable for minorities or people who earn under $200K a year, I assure you)?

A vote for McCain is a third term for Bush. Your choice. Pass it on.

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[lazy-daisy64.livejournal.com]

I don't lean that far to the left either, but I've voted Republican exactly ONCE in my life, and it was for a very moderate gubernatorial candidate. He was pro choice, which, I admit, it extremely important to me. But I'm not going there in this post.

I agree with Ver that this is the classic case of "cutting off your nose to spite your face." I disgree that Obama and Clinton are THAT different in their policies; their voting records show it, I believe. People are pissed, REALLY pissed, because their candidate lost, and there is lots of real and perceived personal slighting going on. Hillary's supporters are so mad because they believe she got bad treatment from the press because she's a woman; I agree that gender bias is pretty deep. And we'll see how deep the racial bias remains in this country. I for one am not optimistic that Obama can win this. As much as I loathe the thought of McCain in the White House, I'm trying to be realistic.

And as for "softening the Republican platform on abortion," that will not happen. There are too many organized and vocal forces that support the party generously that will NEVER allow that to happen. Moderate repubs who support women's rights don't get elected, at least as far as I can tell, and certainly not in red states. McCain, IMO, promises a third term for Bush, and Democratic voters looking for another option should look at his candidacy very closely if they think they're getting something "different." The power behind the republican party is very strong. It shouldn't be underestimated.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

An anti-choice attitude will kill a candidate's chances with me, as well, which is why I usually end up with a Democrat. But in this election there are even more important factors that will literally determine the course of this nation and of our lives over the next ... well, EVER. We have a slumped economy and no clear, ready way out under continuation of the same trade policies of the last eight years (really, of the last 25 or so - including Clinton - but this administration has happily carried on instead of trying to put any brakes on it); this government has pissed everyone who has oil off to the point of having to fake concern for dying Africans in order to make nice toward getting their oil because nobody else will deal fairly with us (and if you think the rest of the world can't see this administration's insincerity, you're wrong); and we no longer have even a moral vision as a country, thanks to Gitmo and that prison in Iraq and fucking INVADING a nonthreatening nation and killing civilians.

*sigh*