DailyKos is a rather brutal place for Hillary supporters. Many on this site believe that we are anything from deluded or foolish, to insane, to outright evil. The right rail of diaries is typically an avalanche of rec'd mud aimed at the Democrat front-runner.
It's time to fight back.
Please list 3 reasons why the $&#@* you support Hillary Clinton. They don't have to be original. They don't have to be your top 3. But they do have to be positive.
I'll start.
- She's a fighter, and she can win. We need someone who knows how the game is played and can beat Republicans at their own game.
Everyone was saying she was a zeppelin waiting for lightning to strike when she ran for the New York Senate. Six years later she was re-elected with over 2/3 of the New York vote, even winning the heavily Republican counties.
At the debate on Thursday she showed us what's in store for the Republicans if she's nominated. The reviews poured in:
DES MOINES REGISTER'S DAVID YEPSEN - 'THAT'S WHY THE LADY IS THE CHAMP': "The evening gave her rivals a chance to trip her up some more. They blew it." [Des Moines Register, 11/16/07]
DES MOINES REGISTER'S DAVID YEPSEN - OBAMA 'SEEMED FLUMMOXED.GOT BOOED' AND 'JOHN EDWARDS SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME. HAD A POOR NIGHT.' "They blew it. Barack Obama had only an average night, and on a couple of questions he seemed flummoxed. Moderator Wolf Blitzer underscored Obama's fumbling by reminding him the question 'is sort of available for a yes or no answer.' By contrast, Clinton gave the answer she should have in the last debate: 'No.' Also, Obama got booed. John Edwards should have stayed home. Edwards also had a poor night because for the first time, the differences between his votes as a U.S. senator and his talk now came into clear focus. " [Des Moines Register, 11/15/07]
LAS VEGAS SUN'S JON RALSTON - 'IT CLEARLY WAS AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED [FOR OBAMA] . FOR CLINTON, IT WAS A .UNFLAPPABLE PERFORMANCE' [Las Vegas Sun, 11/16/07]
AP'S BETH FOUHY: HILLARY WAS 'POISED, CONFIDENT AND READY TO RUMBLE' [AP, 11/16/07]
NEWSWEEK'S HOWARD FINEMAN - 'IT WAS ONCE AGAIN HILLARY'S NIGHT. OBAMA, BY CONTRAST, WAS.BOBBING AND WEAVING.' [Newsweek, 11/16/07]
CBS NEWS' BOB SCHIEFFER - 'THIS WAS HILLARY CLINTON'S NIGHT' [CBS Early Show, 11/16/07]
POLITICO'S ROGER SIMON - HILLARY 'GAVE AS GOOD AS SHE GOT. AND THOSE WHO TRIED TO KICK HER, STUBBED THEIR TOES' [Politico, 11/16/07]
ABC NEWS' DAVID CHALIAN - HILLARY 'SUCCESSFULLY [GOT] HER CAMPAIGN SHIP BACK ON COURSE' [ABC News, 11/16/07]
SLATE'S JOHN DICKERSON -- CLINTON HAD A 'WINNING FIGHT NIGHT' In a piece titled, 'Clinton's winning fight night,' Slate's John Dickerson wrote, "In Vegas Hillary looks like a front runner again." [Slate.com, 11/16/07]
TAEGAN GODDARD - 'IT'S CLEAR SEN. HILLARY CLINTON WON TONIGHT'S DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IN NEVADA.' [Political Wire, 11/15/07]
LAS VEGAS SUN'S BARRY HORSTMAN - 'ASBESTOS-CLAD CLINTON DOUSES OPPONENTS' FIRE' [Las Vegas Sun blog, 11/16/07]
ABC NEWS' GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS - 'WHEN BARACK OBAMA COUNTERATTACKED ON THE ISSUE OF SOCIAL SECURITY, HE GOT BOOED. HILLARY HAD THE CROWD IN HER HANDS LAST NIGHT' [ABC Good Morning America]
NEW YORK TIMES' ARIEL ALEXOVICH - 'CLINTON BACK ON HER GAME' [New York Times' Caucus, 11/16/07]
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS' JOSH GREENMAN - HILLARY 'PLAYS ALL THE RIGHT CARDS AND HITS JACKPOT' [New York Daily News, 11/16/07]
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS - HILLARY WAS 'CRISP, COMPOSED AND IN COMMAND' [New York Daily News, 11/16/07]
NEWSWEEK'S JONATHAN ALTER - EDWARDS 'DID NOT HAVE A PARTICULARLY GOOD NIGHT' [MSNBC, 11/16/07]
(source: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/... )
- She cares about and responds to her constituents. She's incredibly productive and disciplined, and her Senate office reflects this. See what Joseph Ward thinks about his Senator:
- Her voting record far more progressive than comments about her on this site might have you believe.
If I may borrow from silver spring's excellent diary.
In order to do this analysis, I have used statistics from the ADA (Americans for Democratic Action) -- a progressive group that ranks Members of Congress on a liberal-conservative scale according to their votes, as well as stats from a mirror organization to the ADA -- the ACU (American Conservative Union) which does the exact same thing -- except from a conservative perspective.
Each year, both the ADA and the ACU pick out roughly 20-25 votes each which they believe are of primary importance to the progressive and conservative movements, respectively. They identify their organization’s position on each vote, and then look at how each Member voted in comparison. They add up how each Member voted on each vote/issue and assign a percentage score – so, let’s say , if there’s 20 votes that the ADA considers significant for 2006 and a candidate votes the same as the ADA would have on 16 of those votes, that candidate is assigned an 80% score -- pretty simple stuff.
You can look for yourself below:
http://www.adaction.org/...
http://www.acuratings.org/
Just for the record, Hillary Clinton has a 95.8 lifetime rating from the progressive ADA, and a 9.0 lifetime rating from the conservative ACU (average of 6 separate years).
John Edwards had a 77.5 lifetime rating from the progressive ADA, and a 10.0 lifetime rating from the conservative ACU when he left the Senate (average of 6 separate years).
Listen to what the African American Men for Hillary said about her. It's impossible to watch this and think she's a conservative in disguise:
I support Hillary Clinton. I think she is the best qualified to lead our nation at this critical time.
Why the &#@* do you?