Dear Hillary Clinton diehards:
When Hillary loses the nomination, please, please, please, vote for your own party. OK?
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There. I asked nicely.
Now will you vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee? You know, the one from your own party?
What? You're going to vote for McCain? And we have to convince you not to?
Oh, sorry, we didn't realize it was our duty to plead with you to vote Democratic since, well, you ARE Democrats.
OK, here goes:
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease vote Democratic!
Pretty please! With sugar on top. And a cherry.
We're begging you down on one knee not to whack your own party out of spite. We're very politely asking you to have enough conscience and self-respect not to enable another Republican President to be installed with your help. We're requesting that you please put your Democratic values ahead of your intensely personal identification with Hillary. Please?
Lately, we've been told it is the responsibility of Obama supporters (otherwise known as "bloodthirsty fanatic zealot cultists") to cajole and coax HRC diehards to actually vote Democratic when Obama is selected as the nominee of our party.
Apparently, this is something that some HRC diehards need to hear. They can't be expected to actually vote for their own party out of loyalty or just plain disgust with Republicans. They need to be begged for their votes by us, the above bloodthirsty, etc.
So here it is: I'm begging!
For god's sake, don't help elect another Republican after eight years of Bush!
I can't believe I really had to say that. How could any Democrat ever live with themselves knowing that they voted for even more of the type of Republican "government" that we've had for the last eight years? Would you really do that? Would you really vote for McCain?
In case you missed it, here is an email that just went out from MoveOn.org:
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
- John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.
- According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
- His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
- McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."
- The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.
- He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.
- Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
- McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.
- McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."
- He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.
John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:
http://pol.moveon.org/...
Would you really vote for that? Would you? Really?
I'm begging you: don't.
Sincerely,
A bloodthirsty fanatical zealous Obama cultist