Focus on November

Now that Obama has won the Democratic nomination for President in the 2008 election cycle, let's focus on November.

Hillary Clinton will not be the nominee, no matter what happens now (barring the unthinkable). Her supporters (myself included) must follower her lead and get a Democrat elected to the White House, and ensure a Republican is not.

I don't care who is on the ticket as the vice president, whether it's Clinton (not so sure that will happen), or Edwards (highly likely) or someone else not yet overtly being discussed for the slot. The most important thing is to have a Democrat win. So we need to take all the new Democrats that registered to vote in our primary and keep them in the party until November 4; preferably until after then as well so we have a working majority in 2010 and 2012.

The primary season is over and Obama is our nominee. Now is not the time to talk of voting for McCain or threatening to stay home on Election Day. Hillary will not be running as an independent; she knows that would destroy any chance of a Democrat winning the White House. If that happened, she would be in 2008 what Ralph Nader was in 2000; a better example is Ross Perot in 1992. He stole votes from then-President Bush (Sr) and allowed Bill Clinton to win with a less-than-50% popular vote. She would do the same to Obama, and the votes would split between the two and McCain would win easily in the Electoral College.

I would say as well that if she were to run as independent, that 1. it would destroy her career as a politician and 2. I would not vote for her. If that were truly to happen (and it has a less than 0.01% chance of happening) then she would be seen as a very, very sore loser, as well as someone who merely wants power, over the good of her party and America. Many folks think that already, she would just be validating it for them.

Anyways, doesn't matter, not going to happen. We have a really, really good chance this year of undoing the last 7 years of damage by President Bush and the Republican-led Congress. Let's not screw it up.