A Plea to Liberal Democrats: Don't Support Hillary

A prominent news item this week has been Barack Obama's historic fund-raising successes in recent months. His campaign just reported raising $31 million dollars for use in the primary race. According to Mr. Obama, "...we have built the largest grass-roots campaign in history for this stage of a presidential race."

And that may be true. But what is also true is that Obama - along with everyone else - has yet to overcome what has been touted as the "inevitability" of a Clinton nomination. The former First Lady still leads all Democratic contenders in national polls. She must be stopped.

Her success is surprising to many, as Clinton is arguably the most polarizing (read: hated) public figure in the United States today, her only current competition being the sitting lame duck whom she is seeking to replace.

On the "left," Clinton is not very well liked at all. Many liberal Democrats have thrown their support behind Obama or John Edwards, often with their main aim being to dethrone Clinton from her frontrunner position. The people that keep her on the top of the list include "pragmatic" centrist and conservative-leaning Democrats who actually believe it's easier to beat a conservative by being... kinda conservative. Add to that naïve liberals who think Hillary is actually one of them, and there you have Hillary's base.

There's not much I can do about the centrist/conservative Democrats, but if you know that you're left-of-center and you think Clinton is an acceptable (or the most acceptable) candidate, read on and be convinced that Clinton is not only the absolute worst candidate in the Democrat field, but also one of the least likely to win.