Come Together

I'm upset.

I was listening to Air America tonight and the host covering for Rachel Maddow asked callers a simple question. "If you are an Obama supporter, would you vote for Clinton in the general if she won the nomination?" or, "If you're a Clinton supporter, would you vote for Obama?"

3 out of the 4 callers I heard said, "No."

When asked, "Did you feel this way six months ago?" they all said, "No." The longer it drags on, the more divided we become.

To me, this is proof of the theory that when people get angry, they get stupid. It's kind of like getting drunk. Feelings are important but they can cloud our judgment.

I am an Obama supporter and I truly believe he will win and rightly deserves the nomination. That said, I can't deny that the race is close and might be even closer had Michigan and Florida played by the rules. I just can't discount how so many other Democrats feel, even if for the life of me I can't understand how they continue to support a candidate that I see as so selfishly destructive to the party (and in so doing, to those of us who belong to it).

However, if for some crazy I have to vote for Hillary Clinton in the fall, I will. I will retch as I do it, make no mistake. But I will vote for her because no matter how intensely I've come to dislike her, she is not going to be worse in office than McCain. At a minimum, we'll still have a shot at protecting Roe v. Wade. Women on both sides of the primary, please consider having to re-fight that one for a minute. Don't you think either Obama or Clinton will do?

To those of you who feel differently, I just ask, are you using your head or your heart to make that decision?

Good decisions require your brain. But good politicians try manipulate your heart. That's what has been done to all of us. That's why we're tearing each other apart.

If we don't get a hold of our feelings and rally as a party, the Republicans have already won.