Voting one's conscience

From the Confluence:

[I] want to deliver a blow to the party in November that is so powerful that they get the message. It’s wrong to turn on your voters. It’s wrong to manipulate primary election results. It’s wrong to allow one of your party loyalists to be trashed in the media by sexism and misogyny. It’s wrong to allow racism to be used as a weapon. It’s wrong to allow your nominee to ditch the party brand name to reach out to appeal to evangelical voters. So much of what has gone on this year in the party is reactionary and corrupt that we can not let it go unchecked or we will lose the only organization we have for standing up for those Democratic principles we cherish.

So, to those of you who are wrestling with your consciences and are looking for someone to blame for your discomfort, don’t point your fingers at us who have the courage of our convictions. Take a look at the superdelegates who abandoned us, and their own party’s values, for a man who threatens to call them racists if they don’t fall in line. A man who treats his party and his party’s voters with so little respect deserves no one’s vote.

The cold, hard, inconvenient truth is that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Barack Obama stole the nomination from her. This is no different from how Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but had the Presidency stolen from him by George W. Bush. How many Democrats, so incensed and furious over that grave injustice are now supporting Barack Obama? Are the other members of my party so bereft of a moral centre that they are all too willing to point out injustices perpetrated by the other side while blithely refusing to clean up their own house?