Posted on 09/01/2008 11:37:26 AM PDT by neverdem
MUCH has been made of the timing of Hillary Clinton’s speech before the Democratic National Convention tonight, coming as it does on the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Convention organizers are taking advantage of this coincidence of the calendar — the 19th Amendment was certified on Aug. 26, 1920 — to pay homage to the women’s vote in particular and women’s progress in general. By such tributes, they are slathering some sweet icing on a bitter cake. But many of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters are unlikely to be partaking. They regard their candidate’s cameo as a consolation prize. And they are not consoled.
“I see this nation differently than I did 10 months ago,” reads a typical posting on a Web site devoted to Clintonista discontent. “That this travesty was committed by the Democratic Party has forever changed my approach to politics.” In scores of Internet forums and the conclaves of protest groups, those sentiments are echoed, as Clinton supporters speak over and over of feeling heartbroken and disillusioned, of being cheated and betrayed.
In one poll, 40 percent of Mrs. Clinton’s constituency expressed dissatisfaction; in another, more than a quarter favored the clear insanity of voicing their feminist protest by voting for John McCain. “This is not the usual reaction to an election loss,” said Diane Mantouvalos, the founder of JustSayNoDeal.com, a clearinghouse for the pro-Clinton organizations. “I know that is the way it is being spun, but it’s not prototypical. Anyone who doesn’t take time to analyze it will do so at their own peril.”
The despondency of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters — or their “vitriolic” and “rabid” wrath, as the punditry prefers to put it — has been the subject of perplexed and often irritable news media speculation. Why don’t these dead-enders get over it already and exit stage...
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I mean you really want change.
Do you vote for the Fighter Pilot and the mother of 5?
Or do you vote for the two Lawyers?
Oh come on say ‘This will turn back the hands of the clock” - you know you wnat to say it, say it, say it!
Like that's gonna happen.
This fine whine was written before McCain announced his VP. Susan Faludi must be about ready to slit her wrists now.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Like that's gonna happen.
Don't be surprised, from David Broder no less.
The two-step reaction is best capsulized in the comments of a very smart veteran campaign operative, a New Hampshire delegate and early Mitt Romney supporter, who told me: "When I first heard, I was appalled. I thought we had forfeited the election. But then I got a call from my 22-year-old daughter. She's a pro-choice voter, just like I am. But she was very excited and enthused by this choice. She is captivated by Palin's life story, the way she has taken on the odds. She may be more acute than I am."Obama has bitterly disappointed two groups of voters: Hillary true believers and women who will vote for any woman.
You just full of inspiring lines.
I see another bumper sticker here!
:-)
Maybe they are sick and tired of being told to sit down, shut up and take it?
Women are ALWAYS the force for reform in American politics.
Go for it!
Yes, they're going over to McCain/Palin, and it isn't a "defection." It's principle over party, Susan. Now what's it going to be?
A pox on all her paragraphs, delivered by her own self!
Here's a link to some background music for Susan to listen to while she ponders her predicament:
Little white lie been around for years
Little white lie ringing in your ears
Turn around come around back on you
Well that little white lie's catching up to you
Little white lie
Say what you got to
Little white lie
Come back to haunt you
Little white lie
You got one, you got two
Little white lie
Head like a box, got legs that crawl
My ears can see, I'm a fly on the wall
Got bones that feel, eyes that touch
Yeah you're falling in deep 'cause you're talkin' too much*
Sammy rocks.
LOL!
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