I don’t think it’s a secret I’m an Obama supporter. However, recently, I’ve crossed over to being a Hillary opponent. If Hillary is the nominee without winning the popular vote and pledged delegates, I will not support her run for president. And here’s why…
I can forget her desire to stay in the race for the nomination, even though it’s looking mathematically less and less like she has a chance.
I can forgive her “misstatements” which keep piling up at an alarming rate, to the point where we she’s almost going to have rally chants that contain the words “pants on fire”.
But her contempt for the democratic process I cannot forgive or forget. Today on All Things Considered (NPR), she was asked about suggestions from her campaign that pledged delegates should change sides–even though those delegates are chosen by the voters based on their promise to support a particular candidate. Here’s what she said:
“There is some fundamental misunderstanding of the way this whole nominating process works,” Clinton says. “Every delegate has the right to choose whom they will vote for. … At the end of the day, there is no requirement that anybody do anything other than make their own best judgment.”
No, Hillary. When I, and millions of other voters across America went into the voting booth to vote in this primary season, we voted for delegates who had pledged to support you, Obama, Edwards, etc. You can be damn sure we, the American voters, expect thoe delegates to keep their word, and not “make their own best judgment.” Clinton grouses excessively about the voters of Michigan and Florida being disenfranchised, yet, when it suits her own political goals, she’s willing to disenfranchise every voter in the Democratic Party in every state.
Each and every day, Hillary is demonstrating to me that she merely wants to win at all costs, no matter if the Democratic Party is decimated in the process. I expect a certain amount of double talk and politics in any campaign. I understand rhetoric and campaign promises. But Hillary is becoming a routine liar, showing nothing but contempt for the process, the party, and the American people.
I think Hillary Clinton has a fundamental misunderstanding of the way this whole nominating process should work, and the way the American voters expect it to work. We expect that the candidate who wins the popular vote and the most pledged delegates (even should that turn out to be her) should be the party’s nominee for President of the United States.
