You get the point.

The young people are largely naive. More interesting are the crossover votes.

Experience in making wrong decisions regarding foreign policy.

Dick Cheney and Colin Powell share that same experience. So do Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith.

I'm not sure how much more foreign policy experience this country can take. Personally I'm hoping for a president with good judgement rather than a highly experienced idiot.

This is why Barack Obama is getting all these young people and crossover votes. This is why anti-abortion, pro-gun Ron Paul is getting all these young voters. They apparently believe what they say. I am not willing to vote for a candidate who will say or do anything for political expediency.

My comment stems from my growing sense as the campaign has progressed and Clinton became “desperate” that she was willing to engage in so-called gutter politics. I sensed here that she might have such personal ambition that it was the power and the prestige of power that she sought rather than true change.

This comment crystallized for me all of those nagging doubts. It was, for me at least, the seminal moment when I crossed from doubting her ambition over character persona to believing her to have ambition over character. It means she is not someone I can trust and I will not vote for her.

I am forced to comment because this is a seminal moment in my decision-making process. I have unequivocally decided I could not support Hillary Clinton on any ticket in any race now or ever. This is my second blog post on the net on this issue. Let me add a link and my initial first comments, which represent my viewpoint.

First, link:
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/20...

Now, my opinion:

I would like to focus on a narrow issue that reflects how this comment will affect independent voters. It is character, not substance because it is the lack of character these comments reflect that I believe independent voters will focus on here.

I voted for Perot in 92, Gore for President and Clinton for Senator in NY in 2000. For a while, I have been an ardent fan of Ron Paul. So, I represent the truly independent voter in the middle. I have been what used to be called a “Rockefeller Republican”: socially, liberal and fiscally conservative. At Robert Rubin’s direction, Bill Clinton ran a Rockefeller Republican government after 1994. Michael Bloomberg has a Rockefeller Republican administration.

I and all of my friends have become disgusted with the Republican party because of George W. Bush, his fiscal profligacy and the War in Iraq. If Ron Paul were a viable candidate, we would vote for him.

However, every progressive Republican I know has switched sides to the Democrats because of Barack Obama. Initially, I was prepared to vote for any credible Democrat who could reverse the Bush policies of the last 7 years. However, when Hillary started to denigrate Obama and praise McCain in the same breath, that all changed. And this is the problem.

I voted for Senator Clinton in 2000 for the Senate. I will never vote for her again — not now, not ever. It was this video clip which turned me — and, I suspect, many like me — from potential crossover democratic voters into no shows in Nov or McCain voters. Hillary Clinton, with one comment, repeated several times, has shown that she will do anything to be elected including tearing down her own party and its chances for the nomination. I cannot in good conscience vote for someone like that.

It’s an issue of character. She has demonstrated she has none. She has turned me away from her if she gets nominated. The damage of Hillary’s comment have absolutely nothing to do with content and everything to do with character. This is Hillary’s Achilles Heel with Independents and Moderate Republicans. The 11th Amendment of Ronald Reagan is basically a reflection of character and principles. It says that there are certain lines one should not cross as a principled human being and party affiliate.

This is how many independent-minded voters will vote in November and why she could cost the democrats the election and our country a chance for change.