Can someone explain to me why Hillary supporters will supposedly let their resentment move them across party lines while our McCain resentment doesn't do the same to us?
Because the PUMAs feel that nObama was way too nasty and disrespectful of Hillary!, plus they also feel that he stole her coronation. In our case, we’re excited about Sarah, not Juan.
“Can someone explain to me why Hillary supporters will supposedly let their resentment move them across party lines while our McCain resentment doesn’t do the same to us?”
Because they felt cheated during the primary process. The final nail in the coffin was the lack of a real roll call at the convention. Also many of them understand what a danger obama is to the country.
Why don’t you look at your screen name and then tell me why you would think anyone in the GOP except the very liberal elite would vote for the baby killer supporter Obama. It is one thing to ask why the Hillary supporters detest Obama but it is another to ask why Republicans don’t do the same against McCain. McCain/Palin are firmly pro-life.
I will answer the question on the Hillary supporters but frankly your question makes me suspect.
It is easy — Hillary lost the election because of ACORN voter fraud in the caucus system. They have a series of videos detailing the fraud in TX and IN. Then we have Howard Dean on FL and MI giving equal votes when Obama was not on the ballot in MI. Then at the Convention they stopped voting in the middle of the roll call. Also Obama/Dean/Pelosi/Reid twisted arms of Super Delegates. They saw how condescending Obama treated Hillary and when he passed over for the VP, they went into action. They were on board before then.
Most of the PUMAs and other groups are not full fledged socialist which is what the Dem Party has become.
Dem Party becomes the Obama ACORN Dem Party.
Let me try it a less politically correct way. White Democrats have seen the left and AA with the help of ACORN hijack your party. They have to options.
1. Embrace the new Obama ACORN Dem Party. If you are a white union member then an ACORN member might just take your job a month after Obama is sworn in.
2. In the silence and secrecy of a voting booth you make this Obama ACORN nightmare go away by voting McCain.
The question is will union members and white blue dog moderate Dems be smart enough to pick the easy and painless option? I think many will figure it out.
Because mainstream Democrats find Obama unacceptable. Not all Democrats are moonbats.
Talk a look at the internals of a state like Oklahoma where McCain is winning 41% of the Democrat vote, Obama is just unacceptable to mainstream America.
Good question, but I think it’s because democrat woman vote more on emotion. They are hurt by how Obama treated them and won’t vote for him because their heart isn’t in it. But McCain is really almost one of them, so they are more comfortable with him—plus he has made them feel happy in teh past.
“Can someone explain to me why Hillary supporters will supposedly let their resentment move them across party lines while our McCain resentment doesn’t do the same to us?”
1. Well, our problem with McCain is he is too liberal. This would make us stay home, worst case.
2. Dhims have the problem, in reverse -— Obama is radically leftist.
3. In contrast, Hillary was (in comparison to Obama) a moderate, distinct from McCain on issues about abortion and a a few others.
4. So while we on the Right might stay home, Hillary supporters (who are to the right of Obamunistas) are more likely to drift across the isle.
I hate to defend Hillary but...she won the overwhelming majority of primaries and still didn't get the nomination. At the end she won Texas WV, KY, OH, PA, and still lost. They know that this nomination was stolen from them by the party and the press and they can't get over that resentment.
McCain wasn't my 1st or 2nd or 3rd pick but I never felt that he stole anything. I never felt that the party screwed my candidate. And then he turned the heat up on what was my lukewarm support by picking Sarah Palin! Contrary to popular opinion, McCain hasn't done everything wrong this campaign.
You underestimate the level of resentment felt by many Hillary supporters towards Dear Leader. With us, it's more of a conservative disdain for a guy who sometimes, but not always, disagrees with us on issues. After all, while few here like McCain's past stances and votes on CFR, illegal immigration, etc., he is at the same time pretty socially conservative, and is good on foreign affairs and defence issues, and seems to be finally getting it on taxes and economics, to a certain degree. As such, few conservatives feel an out and out hatred for McCain, and those that do are often the loony-tune, pseudo-conservative Chuck Baldwin types.
PUMAs, on the other hand, GREATLY dislike Dear Leader because they have a (justified) sense that he stole the nomination right out from under them, with the charges of vote fraud, suppression, and even physical intimidation reported in the Dem caucuses.
Plus, the PUMAs want Hillary to have one more shot (and this is regardless of what she herself has said publically), and 2012 is the only shot she has left. Better to face a semi-conservative McCain or a neophyte Palin, they figure, than to have an incumbent Dem president who will be unassailable within the party primary process.
1 There ideology icludes the “women always get hosed” philosophies. Many are:
a. voting for the woman
b. voting against the “hoser”
2. There is the theory that if Obama gets in Hillary is permanently finished for any White House runs. If McCain wins, they can put Hillary in in 2012.
3. Some actually don’t want the extent of Socialism that Obama is offering.
4. No clue.
What McCain resentment are you talking about?
If there were someone for whom to vote on the Democrat side, you would see this movement. You saw some in 2006 when the Dims ran as if they were more Conservative than their Republican opponents. You cannot put enough lipstick on Obama to make him as acceptable as McCain - no matter how bad I believe McCain to be, Obama is much worse.