To the Editor:

It’s easy to understand the disappointment and anger that many of the Clinton supporters had both on the street and in the hall at the Democratic Party rules committee’s attempt to broker a compromise with the disputed primary results in Florida and Michigan. What is not easy to understand is their outraged chants that they would vote for John McCain in the November election.

These are the same people who feel fervently about the reproductive rights of women, anti-discrimination in the workplace and a host of other social issues. And Senator McCain has already announced that he will appoint judges to the federal courts who will oppose these very issues when he said that his models would be Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Let us hope that by the time the election comes in November, these disappointed supporters urged by Hillary Rodham Clinton will vote in their self-interest.

Morton Lebow
Washington, June 1, 2008

Note from KBJ: I expect Democrats to come together after the bitter nomination battle. A few disgruntled feminists may stay home, although I can’t imagine many of them voting for John McCain.