In all the blogs I've been reading, the huge amount of vitriol from Barack supporters has really turned me off. I am particularly distressed by all the threats to pack up their marbles and go home (i.e., not vote or vote for McCain) if Obama is not the nominee. What scares me the most is how many of them are from otherwise intelligent-seeming people. (The really vicious, tunnel-visioned ones I think are posing Republicans ...)

So here's my plea: Honest people can disagree about who would make the best nominee. I, too, have not yet decided which is the better candidate (my primary didn't count ... MI.) But I do know this: if you want to recover from the disaster that has been Reagan 2 ...er I mean Bush 2, you must vote in the general election for the Democratic nominee. Period. Anything else bodes ill for us and our country.

Please?

Of course, here I suspect I am singing to the choir, but still ...