[goldfinch]

Count me in on the ‘Hold your nose and vote for Hillary’ camp’. The longer Obama and Hillary are forced to spend money to fight for the nomination, the less time they will spend attacking McCain. Also, the longer the Democrat fight, the more likely that the losing side will have their feelings hurt bad enough that they stay home in November or consider switching their vote to McCain.

[Martins kid]

Defeat Hillary NOW. We may never get the opportunity again - Always take the sure thing.

[drierice]

The chessboard, as it stands: We know McCain is going to have the party’s nomination. And almost every time Hillary opens her mouth, her numbers go lower. So this going to be a battle between extreme liberal Obama and our conservative values/principles, or what’s left of them.

So if you have the chance, vote Hillary, for the reasons stated in this thread. She’s unlikely to get the nomination of her own party, much less win the general election. If, by some absolute miracle, she were to get the nomination, she will have been politically weakened and mincemeat for McCain.