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Why I Am #NeverHillary

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I refuse to throw good blood after bad.

She's sleazy -- a cheater and a liar. I can't forget how she willfully misrepresented her own take on the minimum wage: she wants $12/hour, but since Bernie's $15/hour is more popular, she claimed she wanted $15/hour too, but it would be up to the states and cities. Pressed, she conceded she'd "like" $15/hour, but wouldn't lift a finger to make it happen federally. Incredibly, she still does this.

Then there's her lie about the auto bailout. Factcheckers call her claim that Bernie voted against it untrue; he voted against bailouts for Wall Street, some of which was attached to aid for automobile companies. Despite being called on this whopper, she still uses it on the campaign trail.

The primary fight against Bernie saw Hillary deploy tactics that went way beyond political hardball. Her allies in the Democratic National Committee schemed to deny Bernie media coverage or a decent debate schedule. They rigged the superdelegate process. They made sure votes and caucusgoers weren't counted and that voter registrations in Bernie strongholds mysteriously disappeared. Can't let that go.

I am highly sympathetic with the argument that we need, and that women and girls deserve, to see a woman in the White House. We do; they do. If Hillary Clinton were merely a flawed candidate, the woman thing would be enough for me.

But Hillary is not flawed. She is a monster. A mass murderer. A warmonger.

The fact that she wears bright-colored Doctor Evil suits and has a silly laugh and twinkly eyes and is kinda smart can't change the fact she has never voted against a war, or apologized for voting for one, or promised not to start any new ones. Her resume can't cover up for her record: zero sponsorships or votes for a major anti-poverty proposal, and only one vote against a job-killing free trade agreement.

I don't vote for monsters.

Let Hillary or Trump destroy the world without the endorsement that would be my vote.

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Ted Rall, a political cartoonist, is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1963, raised in Kettering, Ohio and graduated from Fairmont West High School in 1981. His first cartoons were published (more...)
 

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