After thinking more about this, I've come to the same conclusion that I'm sure most liberals have come to: Hillary would not be my choice, she's not liberal, she has sold out to the very corporate interests that dominate the current administration, and I'll vote for her if she gets the Democratic nomination. To do anything else would be idiotic. I hope that she does not get the nomination. But if it comes to a choice between Clinton and McCain (and Nader and Gravel), what else can we do?
The one and only thing I've ever liked about Hillary Clinton is that she correctly perceived in the mid 90s that there was (and is) a 'vast right-wing conspiracy'. She was mocked and ridiculed for saying it (mocked and ridiculed by the media arm of that right-wing conspiracy, of course), but it was true; and we've seen the fruits of that conspiracy in the neo-con accession to power with the Bush administration.
But other than being hounded by the right-wing, her actual political views are based on neo-liberalism: constant attacks on the domestic labor force (think NAFTA, welfare 'reform', cuts in social security); imperialist foreign policy (her vote for the Iraq war, support for the draconian measures imposed on developing countries by the World Bank and IMF); support for corporate welfare (her insistence that health care should continue to be run by private health insurance companies). It sickens me to think of voting for her, but I will. I will, unless Obama gets the nomination.
