the worst delusional diary of the day.

Since, you know, backing equality for the GLBT community through positive rhetoric and backing of rights on everything from civil unions to non discrimination laws and anti-bullying laws, from trying to pass a form of universal health care, creating SCHIP, helping rural kids w/health care and education is TOTALLY Republican. There's also a bunch of other things she's done for the progressive movement, but I don't have time to list them.

Needless to say, now, because she won't bow to the Messiah, she's turned into a neo-conservative right winger, despite being more progressive or just as progressive as Obama on about every issue out there.

Tell you what. If Hillary's really a Republican, prove it to me, and I'll go switch my voter registration to GOP tommorrow.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

I totally disagree.  I believe that Hillary will advance many progressive ideas if she becomes president.  I do doubt her ability to actually get bold initiatives passed due to her combativeness and general "we've got to fight them" attitude.  But at the same time, I feel she'll lead the country towards a better place than it's been.  That's why if she gets the nomination she'll regrettably get my vote.

I also think she is a panderer and a political opportunist, but only as far as it helps her get elected.  That's just one reason I support Obama in the primary.

Unfortunately, the center has scooched right over the last seven years, so even centrists tend to look liberal.

This dairy is just shameful.

"The great uniter". "Clinton is the one going negative".

Oh. Please.

...is good for the gander.

I applaud the diarist for focusing on the reality that people change; and we shouldn't condemn them for that fact.

That being said, how many folks here scream about Hillary being a GOP'er early in her career, then go on back to their blog at the Big Orange, where it's acknowledge that Markos, himself, was a card-carrying Rethug until sometime around 1993, or thereabouts?

Inevitably, whether it's Markos, Obama or Clinton, we're talking about a bunch of self-styled moderates who are, in fact, Centrists in Progressive clothing.

I'm a Democrat of the most pragmatic sort, so I don't have a problem with that (I have other "issues" with Markos, but they're irrelevant to this comment thread); I have a problem with hypocrisy, however.

Any Daily Obamatrons joining in the chorus of this "Hillary-was-a-GOP'er-when-she-first-sta rted-out" are true hypocrites considering these same folks then mosey on over to the DKos chorus line initiated and run by someone of the very same ilk Hillary, too.

Ok, I get you. You say because I support Clinton I should vote for McCain in the general election if Obama is the nominee.

Here's what I don't get.  In the beginning of the campaign, Clinton steadfastly refused to answer hypothetical questions whose context was to up the fear quotient in America.  Almost all the candidates, to their credit, refused to be drawn into questions of nuking other countries.  And now here she is talking about obliterating Iran.  I don't get it.

This doesn't matter.  I grew up in the reddest county of a pretty red state (I'm here in Dan Burton country shudder).  It took me a long time to find my own political values, because I wasn't exposed to many things beyond the GOP.

I'm an Obama supporter, but Clinton is no more a Republican than I am.