Hillary Clinton: Remember When John McCain Slimed Your Daughter

A vocal number of Hillary Clinton supporters are threatening to vote for John McCain, some even threaten to actively campaign against Barack Obama if he were to win the nomination.

They base their reasons on claims of sexism... they feel like something was "stolen" from him (regardless of the fact that Barack has followed the rules set out by the DNC). They are blind to the fact that Hillary's campaign strategists were incompetent (Mark Penn reportedly didn't know that the California primary was proportional and not winner-take-all) and didn't have a plan for after Super Tuesday.

They hate Barack Obama for winning. And somehow they have conflated all of the sexism ever experienced in their lives with this presidential campaign.

If you want to see some of the out-of-control vitriol being spewed toward him, check out Hillary supporter site www.hillaryis44.org, where they even use sexist tactics against Michelle Obama by calling her "lantern jawed." (Plug your nose before you go in. This has become a hate site.)

So for those Hillary supporters under the impression that John McCain would better serve their interests, I urge them to read the following post written by commentator Paul Rogat Loeb.

From Polstate.com:

Dear Hillary,

Remember when John McCain slimed your daughter?

Reasons abound why you should do all you can to defeat John McCain--but for you, it should be personal. Maybe you've forgotten in the heat of the Democratic contest. But remember McCain's cruel joke about your daughter, when Chelsea was 18 and vulnerable? This alone should give you every reason to stand against McCain -- and nothing to boost his chances:
McCain made the joke at a 1998 Republican Senate fundraiser. "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" he asked. "Because her father is Janet Reno." Chelsea was a lovely young woman then, and is even lovelier now. But when you're 18, an attack like that can be deeply wounding. It's outrageous for McCain to slime an innocent young woman who'd done nothing to offend him -- just to throw red meat to a Republican crowd.

Sure, McCain apologized after a flurry of media coverage, but talk of that sort is cheap. It's like his using the excuse that he'd had a long day, after telling his own wife at a 1992 campaign event: "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c$%t." That was his public response to her teasing him about his thinning hair. But the Chelsea "joke" was from a prepared text, not accidental. It's a window into McCain's cruel side. Your lovely daughter was the target of his abuse.

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Comments

[JohnLai]

12:11 PM on 05/22/2008

Everyone has only one life to live and Hillary you may find what you can live for. Million of voters of working class, rural Americans, the poor; they all need your help.

Go Hillary 08; Don't count on the pundits anymore. You shall have cross party supports.

[valsthewoman]

06:07 PM on 05/22/2008

Dear Senator McCain,
I want to begin by telling you that I am a registered Democrat that has campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton. I consider myself a loyalist to her as a woman fighting for womens rights. I am totally against the positions and associations that Obama has had his entire life and I cannot accept that it would be in our country's best interest to have that man become our commander in chief. Therefore I am making a strong firm commitment to do everything I possibly can to help get you elected to the office of Presidency. I know there are a lot of issues we may not agree on 100% but you are much more qualified than Obama. Please keep in mind should by a miracle Hillary get the nomination I as a woman will have to support her. I will not vote for an Obama/Clinton ticket. I cannot in good faith accept this man who has such deep communist and corruption in his associations that I will never vote for him. I want to tell you that tears are running down my face as I write this. I have never felt so emotional or connected to a political choice as I have Hillary Clinton. I live in Stark County Ohio and I understand the importance of this county in selecting a win or loss for our entire state. We are your swing county. I need a yard sign to place by my Hillary sign.

[JohnLai]

12:08 PM on 05/22/2008

Remember when the BO fanatics attack your husband.

Hillary the party pundits plot against you.
Set up a new party and continue your fight for the middle class, the working class and the poor. You shall have a great future, if not now, BO will certainly make lots of people fall under the line of poverty. He is going to make this country bankrupt.

Do not play by the rules made by the democratic party; this party are screwing the voters with the proportionality rule and caucus.

At least for now, it is revenge time to the party who screw voters in Florida and Michigan. Line up you interest with MI and FL and then you may have 2 states under your belt. A good way to start the general election.

Tell the party pundits that if they do not honour the votes of MI and FL or set a new date of revote that you are going to run as an independent and continue your fight for the working class and the poor. Even if you don't get to be president, you will be the heroine to take on the affluent representative Obama and McCain.

[wolfi101]

04:36 AM on 05/22/2008

McCain's school / childhood nickname was "Mr Nasty" and I ( we ) have seen this come out in some of the Republican debates - especially against Romney.

I certainly can believe, that Hillary supporters are very angry at their candidate not succeeding, but to vote for HIM.................. well, I do hope, that cooler heads will eventually prevail.

[WiseOne]

12:08 AM on 05/22/2008

Hillary Clinton supporters have no need of ever voting for John McCain.

All they have to do to show their support of real Democracy and displeasure of the DNC, should it be so stupidly suicidal as to pick Obama as the suicidal candidate, is WRITE HER IN COME NOVEMBER.

If EVERY Hillary supporter does this, she would DECIMATE BOTH Obama and McCain.

REAL democracy in action; it's a beautiful thing.

WRITE HER IN. No matter WHAT the Democratic superdelgates do, and no matter how she might try to rally you behind Obama.

Couldn't be a more simple and elegant solution.

[RonnieDebb]

05:23 AM on 05/22/2008

This is a democracy, so do as you please. But you do your name no justice.

[NoDrama]

10:36 AM on 05/22/2008

Write-in campaigns and third party efforts have historically backfired, but you may certainly ignore the probability that it would result in a McCain presidency.

The point is that there are polls showing Clinton supporters who assert (stridently) that they'd prefer McCain to Obama, and for those of us who recall the nastiness the GOP visited on the Clinton family during the time Bill was in the White House that thinking is, frankly, bizarre.

McCain is no friend of the Clintons, never has been and never will be.

[WiseOne]

10:27 PM on 05/22/2008

Write-in campaigns HAVE historically backfired, but no one would dispute the polls that showed Hillary decimating ANY GOP candidate with a mere 51% of the vote of women. Not to mention the true record of the Clinton years unfiltered by GOP propaganda.

This would be the first successful write-in campaign in political history, and it doesn't take a genius like McLaughlin to see why. He's already called Hillary President.

Whether she ends up being the nominee or not.