This is a bit of old news. She has already been stripped of her delegate status. Voting for the opposition candidate violates the rules of the convention.

This just goes to show there are morons in both parties. You know 'cause the Republicans care so much about women's rights.

When I read about people like that, I feel really impatient.

yeah this is typical of a supporter like this. well I can't wait to see what a mccain administration would do for women. see here http://sensico.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/equal-pay-difference/

She just wants her 15 minutes. She knows she'll be voting for Obama in November.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her.

So she's going to vote Republican? Well, she'll be a hero there, I suppose.

Why isn't Hillary saying or doing anything to publicly reject such actions? She created a monster and now she has to slay it.

maybe if obama would apologise for his sexist kitchen sink strategy and his many divisive comments about gender, race, and political history, clinton supporters could forgive him for defeating her. blacks are certainly taking staunch dems for granted. what have they done to earn any rewards from democrats. it is not as if they have supported white dems in the past. it is just take, take, take with the blacks. and i haven't even mentioned the eggheads. IAM VOTING FOR MCCAIN TOO! HE RESPECTS WOMEN!

I do wonder how she came to be a delegate in the first place. Seems like the Democratic Party of Wisconsin needs a better vetting process.

it is all about the vetting these days...

tell it to claytie williams

"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her."
Oh yeah? Let's rephrase that a bit, shall we? How about: No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a CANDIDATE AND A PARTY that:
1. Has vowed to appoint judges who will repeal Roe v Wade and make abortion not a choice but a CRIME.
2. Opposes requiring insurance companies to cover birth control
3. Opposes equal pay for equal work
4. Opposes requiring health insurers to cover reconstructive breast surgery after mastectomy
5. Opposes work supports for poor working women (child care, health insurance, etc.)
6. Supports kicking women soldiers out of the military when male soldiers who she refused to have sex with accuse her of being gay

Whaaaaaa! Whaaaaaaa! I didn't get my way! You wouldn't change the rules for me! I'm taking my ball and going home!

By the way, I just went to the delegate selection event here in Oregon, and you'd be surprised at how easy it is to become a delegate. All you need to do is fill out an online form and then show up. Some people showed up with 25 friends who voted for them, and they were the ones chosen.

No one ever had to prove they were a Democrat or that they could somehow be guaranteed to vote how they were pledging to.

How hard would it be for the McCain camp to put forward a ringer and then have her blab to the media?

Not hard. Not hard at all.

By the way, Eric, why are you still beating your dead horse like this? Your candidate lost. She's not the nominee. It's time for you to put your bitterness behind you and devote your energies towards reporting the race as it actually exists.

Miri11, why do you feel like it's necessary to try and use your vote as a tool? If Mcain is elected I will not be surprised and I will know it was because of people like you.

And you will get exactly what YOU deserve. I on the other hand will sleep tight knowing my hands are free from the blood.

Vote how you want but stop trying to beat us over the head with it so you can have some grand I told you so moment before Mcain continues the whole sale destruction of everything this nation stands for.

Also, Obama fired the Monster staffer. And he never called them racists. His backers may have, but as Clinton supporters were so fond of pointing out, you just can't control what supporters say and those things can not be attributed to the candidate.

But since people are naturally hypocrites I guess you won't see the point there.

*** Adding to the Mcain anti women list is his decision to vote that insurance companies have to cover Viagra but should not have to cover birth control.

Nice.

of course obama must apologise for stealing hillary's political inheritance. even then we hillary supporters must be true to our american values and stand firm with mccain. what did bill clinton say?..."wouldn't it be great to have an election between two patriots? and then we could get past all this other stuff." so although obama should apologise, i would still have to vote for mccain even if he did. nothing could undo the humiliation of losing when the advantage was so clearly ours. nothing is worse than degrading oneself in a losing effort. it is a lose, lose. so SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA!

"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her."

then WHY IS SHE BACKING MCCAIN?!

the fact that she can quote that without the slightest sense of irony says something about this woman.

Debra Bartoshevich supports john mccain like susan b. anthony got support from george f. train. As Tim Wise would say, Ms. bartoshevich's whitness is showing.

like all the other accusations of Obama being anti-Clinton, it's not the Obama campaign, it's the Wisconsin Democratic Party!

Portrait of Debra Bartoshevich:

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/D/A/2/vote-for-spite.jpg

As woman, let me just say fuck you, bitch! The Democratic Party does not ignore women, but the Repugs hate your guts, want to control your uterus and you are 18 times an idiot and fool to support McLame.

I doubt Hillary is happy with you - ya moron.

McCain thinks you should earn less and are less intelligent than men. He also thinks you are a trollop and worse. So yes dear, go ahead and vote for McCain. You support his theory on intelligence.

My rabbi is ignoring me. That's it! I'm joining the Nazi party!

Good thinkin', Debra.

Why the hell is this story even news? The only reason this undeniably obscure pledged delegate is making the news is to try to reignite the feuds of the past between Clinton and Obama supporters. The individual is obviously stupid.

I take umbrage at all the posters here who suggest that somehow this person's actions are indictive of the feelings of Democrats who supported HRC in the primaries. Also, to the individuals who have tried to inject gender into the debate over this story, I have to say that's incredibly, truly sexist. It's counterproductive and intellectually lazy.

We need to work to unite the party.

Fine. She can support McCain. But she doesn't get to be a Democratic delegate. Show her the freaking door.

Yes, if Obama loses in November it will be the fault of the Evil Monster Hillary.

It won't be the fault of Obama the candidate. Because he is the Messiah. He can do no wrong.

You will all blame Hillary the Evil Witch and her racist husband.

The person who called Hillary a monster is Obama's senior foreign policy advisor, not some low level staffer.

Where in the world does she get off throwing that Anthony quote out? How can she possibly say Hillary was ignored? Wasn't Hillary crowing about "18 million votes" for her? How is that being "ignored"?

Say hello to Clayton when y'all git together

McCain Says No to Returning Funds Raised by Controversial Oilman (Wapo) Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will not return the $300,000 raised by a Texas Republican who joked in 1990 that women should submit to rape and "enjoy it." Yesterday McCain cancelled a fundraiser that Texas oilman Clayton Williams was planning to hold at his Midland, Tex. home on Monday, after The Washington Post and ABC News questioned what the senator thought of Williams' remarks that women should give in while being raped. "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it," he said during his unsuccessful bid for governor against the late Ann Richards. Williams, who told the Midland Reporter-Telegram that he had already raised $300,000 for the presumptive GOP nominee, also said at the time that when it came to campaigning against Richards, he would "head her and hoof her and drag her through the dirt" like a cow on his ranch

Unfortunately, Bartoshevich didn't get the quote from Susan B. Anthony, quite right.

Bartoshevich said: "...no self-respecting woman would wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her..."

Susan B Anthony, however, said
"I was never surer of my position that no self-respecting woman would wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her -political rights-." (from pg. 794 from the book, "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony," by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.)

I hope Ms Bartoshevich asks herself, in what might be an unusual moment of self-reflection, which party has a consistent track record of ignoring women's rights?

The Woman is mental. She needs to be tested.

It is easy to sympathize with the palpable disappointment many may feel and it appears that both the party and the Obama campaign are working to soothe that hurt, but to accept this mutiny now that the campaign ship has sailed is unacceptable.

Perhaps Senator Clinton persuade her with a personal communication to pipe down and stay in the fold, in public at least.

Failing that, the delegate in question should lose her delegate status and an alternate delegate should be named. The little d "democracy" was tested in 50+ contests. Barack Obama is our presumptive nominee.

I was an early Hillary supporter and stayed with her until her endorsement speech. Now I will vigorously support the ticket, as Hillary has recommended.

The stakes are too high to let the Supreme Court be packed with republican appointees like Scalia. Women's issues like choice, are one vote away from
being swept aside. Why would this woman support McCain? Why is she so willing to vote against her own self-interest?

The War is a man-made disaster. The costs are too high in political, monetary and perhaps most overlooked by Bush-Cheney and McCain, human capital.

The person who called Hillary a monster was 100% correct.
Congrats to Samantha Power for telling the truth about Billary.

Well then why would you ask for the votes of the supporters of the Monster and her racist husband?

You don't need them. The Messiah can win the general election with a coalition of african americans and the liberal elite. The same coalition that supported George McGovern. He can win all 50 states. Or is that 57?

I think her punishment should be to have to go to the Republican convention and sit next to NEWT and VETTERS.

She is entitled to do what she thinks is right. All of you people need to get off the lady's back. Heck if she wants to vote for McCain, so be it. You people should have spoken up when Chris Matthews and his allies at MSNBC and NBC were being drastically unfair to Hillary therefore pissing off her supporters.