Today, I read a Yahoo article about how among Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters; about fifteen percent still refuse to support Presumptive Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama but instead, plan to vote for Senator John McCain. Quite frankly, I just don't understand this blatent dose of insanity.
I never thought that after suffering the eight year nightmare of the "Bush Reign of Terror"; that any Clinton supporter (whether of Bill or Hillary) would even consider voting for at least four more years of the same murderous policies (on so many different fronts-from cutting Medicaid to invading Iraq, etc.) that would most certainly be perpetrated by John McSame. We can see this through the illogical behavior still exhibited by some outraged Hillary supporters who refuse to even consider voting for Obama.
Such people are behaving as though Senator Clinton was "robbed" of what was "rightfully hers" by the "underhanded conspiring of an old boy network in a smoke-filled backroom". This is not the case. Senator Obama won fairly and squarely. I believe that what made the difference were the many voters who would once have gladly supported her whose respect and goodwill she lost (myself included) when she voted for the invasion & occupation of Iraq and then continued to support it for four years. And there was a subgroup within that group that might have been large enough to make the difference who might have forgiven her and given her a second chance had she owned up to her mistake and apologized for her vote for the War (myself included). What we got instead, was her late-breaking claim that, ".... if she had known then what she knows now.... she never would have voted for the War", which was simply not satisfying.
Notably, twenty-three other senators knew better from the beginning, why didn't she? Senator Clinton's intelligence and command of issues have been touted as her top selling points. Being willing to fight like a tigress for one's own career is one thing. Being willing to do so for the nation's interests is another and sadly, Sen. Clinton badly failed this test. Ex-Senator Lincoln Chaffee makes the point in his recently published book "Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President" that the mistake of voting to authorize an unnecessary war should be a career-ending mistake. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.