Two chances

Way, way, way too soon - on Tuesday night - Steve Soto, on The Left Coaster, posted "Hillary, It's Time to Leave".

Here are a couple of points he made that really sent me over the edge:

"However, he now has a clear path to the nomination at a time when we need to start destroying John McCain and the GOP every single day between now and November. It will be a challenge, as the party is about to test the proposition that his core voters can lead the party to a general election victory.

Nevertheless, the time for that experiment to begin is now, regardless of our feelings about how we got here. Again, no matter how you feel now, in the fall it will simply come down to Obama against a doddering, pandering, Bush ass-kissing sack of shit. If you vote for the sack of shit out of rage at how Obama won this thing over Clinton, we are all screwed. We cannot endure another four years of disaster capitalist elites running this country into the ground, aided by a Supreme Court full of corporatists. If you are a Clinton supporter, please leave your disappointment behind as you enter the voting booth in November. Your opponent is not Barack Obama, but rather the bastards across the aisle that got us here."

In comments I responded:

Hey Steve,
Thanks for telling me who my “real” opponents are. And thanks also for kicking me in the ass on my way out the door and reminding me not to be mad.

I’ll tell you what - The Precious and his “core voters” can lead the way to their own general election victory. They’ve decided to alienate half of the Democratic base. Let’s see how well that works out for them. I’m already a registered Independent and will be watching from the sidelines. I’ve been disenfranchised for the last time.

The next comment was a sarcastic one from a MisterOpus1:

Darrow, if McCain wins, I don’t ever want to hear one gripe, one bitch, one moan out of you, because you are the last person on earth to have any credibility to do so. I hope that certainly makes you feel good, allowing another Bush-like President into the office, just because your widdle feelings got all hurt between these two great candidates.
Something tells me, however, that you were never too terribly aligned with Democratic values in the first place. Can’t imagine why I think that…..”

Don't you just love the dripping threats and accusations of me not being a true Democrat?

My response to him:

MisterOpus,
Don’t worry. I won’t be bitching, griping or moaning about the general election. I’m not allowing another Bush into the White House. The pie-eyed idiots who think Obama can beat McCain after they’ve alienated half of the Democratic base are.

So I don’t want to hear any whining or bitching from you when Barry and his core voters go down in flames this fall because they were in a rush to coronate their unvetted, inexperienced Precious and decided that disenfranchising half of their party was the way to victory.

These Obamaphiles are so manic that they can’t even see that they’re backing a sure loser. Now they want us to get onboard and back their loser after they’ve insulted us and told us they don’t need us. I say screw ‘em. They've got exactly two chances to get me to vote for their loser in November: slim and none.