We democrats want to win, keep the White House and retake congress. So the suggestion posed is vote for Hillary to do this. She is a better candidate. Some have even said that Bernie should back out of the race for the good of the country. I answer with the following comments to those who use this argument.
1. If Hillary were more progressive and sounded like a true progressive, Bernie would be gone by now. But she’s too packaged and too stilted. People see that everything she says is contrived. That’s one of the reasons the trust factor is a problem. The republican attacks on her have not helped. She is definitely well qualified to be president but that’s not good enough in the primaries. Now she is attacking Bernie with bullshit and has Chelsea repeating it and that takes her down even more. She hasn’t learned her New Hampshire 2008 lesson. Let your hair down. Be yourself. It seems she can’t do it.
2. Is there some question whether Bernie is electable? In my opinion, he is definitely electable. The media is finally showing polls of Bernie vs the republicans which they have blatantly refused to show until now and even then, rarely. They do not want Bernie. But polls show that he does better than Hillary against the republicans. The question is whether there is enough animosity toward the Clintons to make her a weaker candidate than one would hope.
3. In my mind, almost all democratic voters could and would support either in the general election. It seems to me that there is not one republican that can attract a sane democratic or truly independent voter.
4. Bernie represents a movement, a progressive movement. There is the same anti status quo on the liberal end as there is in the conservative, I mean reactionary, wing. But with one difference. Everything Bernie says shows that he is sane. I cannot say the same for the republicans.
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