All this hand wringing by former HRC supporters who can't move on with grace has now succeeded in nothing, except getting a bad name. That these same people won't listen to reason isn't because it hasn't been offered and given in good faith. All that's needed for a new energy burst is a phrase or video to send them screaming outrage again. The denial they court is too seductive in an echo chamber that promises hope, but only delivers deceit by offering claims of something that will not come. Their political naiveté, turned to desperation, now brings only embarrassment since they're putting their own petty personal grievances before everything else, even Senator Clinton, while posturing that their anti Obama zealotry is something it's not, which is obvious to see.
They have also managed to take their cause and turn it into something that gets snorts of disrespect that resembles disgust from most Democrats, while Republicans smack their chops with anticipation, using them whenever the chance arises, which is whenever they're asked.
The other thing that's happened is that most of these rogue HRC supporters have become what they hated most. They are as bad or worse as the Obama supporters during the primaries who bombarded sites, especially this one, comment sections, hitting bloggers with vitriol and hate screed emails, including posts written by the unhinged comprised of such nonsensical gibberish that the vast majority of Democrats trying to turn the Republicans out have come to disrespect them completely.
Jesse Taylor at Pandagon is even harsher with Dowd and a great short read. Also see Sadly No. Ann Althouse responds with a question back to Dowd.
The primary is over. Sen. Barack Obama is our party's nominee. Hillary supports him. All three of TalkLeft's authors support him (even though many of our commenters of both sexes haven't come around.)
I think most American women who are Democrats do support Obama. If there's an objection to him, the one I hear most is his lack of political experience at the national level, not his life, his wife, or his weight. And that objection disintegrates in my view now that we are faced with the alternative of John McCain and another four years of Republican rule.
P.S. I don't believe there is even one woman out there who won't for a candidate out of jealousy because he's thinner than she is. If there is, I have another song for her: Linda Ronstadt's "Poor Poor Pitful Me."
