{"id":130494,"date":"2016-04-26T00:25:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/just-a-reminder-for-my-democrat-friends.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:00:34","slug":"just-a-reminder-for-my-democrat-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/just-a-reminder-for-my-democrat-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"Just a reminder for my Democrat friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love your preference for nominee. Examine them closely, but go with your heart, make that primary\/caucus vote, play your role in the system, speak out about how your candidate is the best hope for America.<\/p>\n

But, really, honestly, truly: if you are part of the crowd talking about how "if my candidate doesn't get the nomination I am …<\/p>\n

… voting for the GOP candidate."
… not voting because that other candidate is morally the same as the GOP."
… doing one of the above to send the DNC a message."
… voting for my candidate as a write-in because I love them so much."<\/p>\n

… then be ready to tell your kids why you let a President Trump\/Cruz take over the White House and the country. Because it's on you.<\/p>\n

I'm not saying that one or the other candidate deserves your primary passion. I'm saying that whether you think Sanders is a leftist lunatic or Clinton a centrist sell-out, either<\/i> is far better than any of the three still in the running on the GOP side … and anything you say or do now or until November that brings support or comfort to that GOP nominee is unworthy of what either<\/i> Democratic candidate stands for.<\/p>\n

Don't let your passion to win, or your enthusiasm for your particular Democratic nominee, blind you to that truth: no matter what you think about a President Clinton, or President Sanders, either is vastly preferable to a President Trump, or President Cruz. They may not be your ideal as a candidate, but either of them beats the hell out of the alternative as far as liberal \/ progressive passions go. The nation, let alone the world, cannot deal with 4 (or 8) years of a Cruz, or Trump in the White House, especially with a GOP majority in the House and\/or Senate.<\/p>\n

Ignoring or denying that is simply a case of idealistic emotion overwhelming reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Love your preference for nominee. Examine them closely, but go with your heart, make that primary\/caucus vote, play your role in the system, speak out about how your candidate is the best hope for America. But, really, honestly, truly: if you are part of the crowd talking about how "if my candidate doesn't get the … Continue reading “Just a reminder for my Democrat friends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/gop-talking-about-how-a-third-party-candidate-for-the-gop.html","url_meta":{"origin":130494,"position":0},"title":"GOP talking about how a Third Party candidate might save the GOP","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Mar-16 1:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Erick Erickson is a pretty awful individual, political and social policy-wise, but it's fascinating reading this interview with him about the prospects of putting someone out there as a Third Party candidate should Donald Trump get the GOP nomination.http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/16\/470715857\/erick-erickson-urges-republicans-to-prepare-third-party-alternativeWhat's particularly interesting are the wheels within wheels here. 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