Marc Fisher: Why a Hillary supporter flipped to McCain

Dallas Morning News ^ | 9/27/2008 | Marc Fisher

[markomalley]

Lynette Long's friends can barely sputter their objections. "How could you?" they say. "What about the environment? What about gay rights? What about Roe v. Wade?"

Ms. Long's son calls, flabbergasted. And her patients in affluent, liberal Bethesda, Md.? They can hardly fathom it.

Lynette Long – psychologist, feminist, Democrat, Dupont Circle dweller, Whole Foods shopper, George Bush hater, Hillary Clinton supporter (to the max) – is not just voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin, she even took the stage at their rally in Fairfax, Va., to trumpet her decision to the world.

Ms. Long had voted for the Democrat for president in every election except for the elder George Bush's first time, against Michael Dukakis in 1988. Sure, she had demonstrated against the Vietnam War, but she basically wasn't the political type. That is, until Hillary Clinton came along.

All of a sudden, Ms. Long saw hope. As she told her son: "How would you feel if every day all the people you saw in authority were men, all the statues in Washington are all men, the money in your pocket, all pictures of men – and then finally, a woman comes along, and she could be president? How would you feel? I would vote for her."

Ms. Long didn't just vote for Mrs. Clinton in the D.C. primary. She blogged for her, campaigned for her, even wrote op-ed columns about her. But as Mrs. Clinton's campaign faltered, Ms. Long felt wronged. She blogged about purported irregularities in caucus voting, accused Barack Obama and his supporters of taking women for granted, put all her hope in the Democrats picking a woman for vice president.

[markomalley]

And the good stuff is available at the link...

[Scotswife]

God Bless the PUMAs.

They are dead wrong on abortion, but at least they will help save us all from Obama.

[ken21]

gosh, even the bush haters come in from the cold.

what’s next?

[Carley]

And what does she think about the dem party ALWAYS taking the blacks for granted. Throwing them an increase in minimum wage now and then and leaving them with little or no prospect for a good education for their children.

President Bush told it like it was......low expectations are nothing but racism.

Without a good education there is no hope at all of reaching for the American dream. Unless you want to be a rapper spewing hatred towards the white world.

[Mygirlsmom]

The issue that has most of Ms. Long's friends recoiling in abject horror from her decision is abortion. Ms. Long calls herself unwaveringly "pro-choice." But, she says, "as long as we let that determine our votes, we are hostages to the Democrats."

Wow!

[steve-b]

She blogged about purported irregularities in caucus voting

One of our resident Photoshop experts needs to tweak the wording to a Hillary-specific version.

[MathDoc]

It’s nice how the democrats who support McCain actually have a track record as democrats. That’s fair though; the republicans who support 0bama also have a track record as democrats - often as County Democratic Chairman. I hope this contrast is a sign of the underlying trend.

[Mad Dawg]

Well we need the liberal elitist ditzes who vote on the basis of sex, but that doesn't keep them from being ditzes.

WE have the evidence we need for ditziness:

psychologist, feminist, Democrat, Dupont Circle dweller, Whole Foods shopper, George Bush hater, Hillary Clinton supporter

and elitist, with that wonderful ignorance which seems always to accompany liberal elitism:

Is she smart enough to do the job? Hey, Reagan was no brain surgeon, but people would follow him.

If you do your homework you learn that Reagan was probably smarter than the average ... wait a minute, uh, psychologist, feminist, Democrat, Dupont Circle dweller, Whole Foods shopper, George Bush hater, Hillary Clinton supporter, but stupid people often think they're smart and the other guys are stupid.

BUT she gets one thing right:

("But I know character and instincts, and she is real.")

Yep. That's why we love Sarah. She's real and she's right. While ZerObama is phoney and wrong.

[driftless2]

I mean I’m grateful for support from previously hostile sources, but listen to the “reasoning” of the woman especially concerning her support for Hillary. She went on a rant about how nasty, terrible, men had been in control her whole life, and a woman came along (Hillary) and how would you feel when you saw a female candidate? Why if you’re a woman, you’d vote for her simply because she was a woman. In short, according to her (and many other women’s) logic, if Elsa The B—— of Buchenwald ran for president against a man, she’d vote for her. This woman grew up in the lap of luxury, but of course well doctrinated in nazi-feminism. She’d have liked Elsa. (smirk)