The Democratic Party is Dysfunctional and Stupid

[FondrenRoad]

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[Horns2005]

I will not vote for Hillary Clinton because I do not like her as a person.

I don't think she's an honest person, but that's not necessarily a deal-breaker if I think that she knows what she's doing. On the other hand, I don't think she knows what she's doing, basically taking whatever political position that seems most popular, maybe this isn't true, but it seems that way on Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan. Her whole path to the presidency seemed very manufactured, and I don't think I'm alone in being wary of candidates that follow that path. I think that's why Bush-Gore left me so queasy at the time.

That being said, I like my money slightly conservative and my social issues liberal, so I could get along with Obama and McCain just fine.

 

[TahoeHorn]

Success and "sucking at life" are differeny concepts to me. Hitler was one of the most successful people of all time and he also was among the people who sucked most at life. Hillary sucks at life.

 

[Larry T. Spider]

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[SDhorn]

I second what Super posted.

The SD Dem party in 04 was almost non-existent. Since 04, supporters of Dean and Clark, many if not most of whom were new to politics, began to build the SD Dem party to a point currently where we have 3 paid staff and active committees for voter registration, GOTV, candidate recruitment, etc.

The GOTV group has recruited and supports a modest number of precinct captains who “work” their precincts year round.

With the enthusiasm of the Obama campaign, we already have many more Obama precinct captains than the SD Dem party GOTV team. Many of these precinct captains are new to politics having been energized by Obama and many if not most would continue to be precinct captains if Obama wins the primary, if for no other reason to win the general election.

If we had such infrastructure in place for the race in 06 for the seat vacated by Duke Cunningham, we would have won that seat. It was very frustrating because the stats showed that if all the Dems who had mail-in ballots on their kitchen counter had voted, Busby would have won easily. With an active precinct captain program, those voters who have not yet voted are identified (it is public information as to who has and has not voted) and called and encouraged to vote.

So one way an Obama win will transform politics is that the Dems will finally have a GOTV organization that will rival the Repubs and will help us win many of the close elections we have lost as a result of the stronger Repub ground game.

P.S. In 1 week at UCSD and 1 day at SDSU, we registered over 1,200 new voters. And last Saturday before the SC results were final, Obama volunteers in CA made 230,000 calls to voters.

 

[bozo_casanova]

I call thirdsies on SDHorn and Super.

Tahoe,

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[TahoeHorn]

bc,

At the risk of belaboring a trivial point, note that Hitler was an obvious example of the case where someone is extraordinarily successful but sucks at like. He was not the subject of an analogy. While Hillary is also an example I do not suggest that they are analogous. I will assert outright that there are tens of millions of such people and Hitler is far, far above Hillary on that long list.

But if you're pointing out that my posting skills could be improved let me say that I lost that case was over even before you posted.