John McCain called his wife a C*nt at a public event.

John McCain joked at a fund raiser "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

John McCain wants 100 years of war.

John McCain wants to create the world's first ever fetus police.

John McCain admires George Bush's foreign policy.

John McCain loves the lobbyists he says he hates.

John McCain wants to give Social Security to Wall Street.

Anyone who thinks this guy is a moderate or supports women's rights is pulling the wool over their eyes.

It only takes a few batshit crazy "dead enders for Hillary" to make it seem like they're everywhere.

Thanks for another insulting diary by yet another novice who has no idea what Hillary supporters will or won't do.

but it took me far too long to remember pumas. Kept looking at it as if it were an acronym, until I finally got it.

It's best just to pay them no mind. If we want to move on, then let's move on and focus on Obama-McCain and the important issues at stake.

Ha! You look too high up the puppeteer food chain.

PUMAs are being played by t-shirt and bumper sticker salespeople. The GOP would've invested enough to avoid the self-parody of unstable people seeing red running around in cheap black shirts with pink Puma brand sportswear logo knockoffs on them.

What gives you the impression Democrats who will vote for McCain are doing it because they support McCain?

No, actually they're not being played.  Perhaps a better question is, are you being played by the media and Obama?  

I think of PUMA as a temporary virtual decompression zone for some people. We're always going to see a broad range of response levels to any given event or stressor in the life of any human being. What is the cause of the epidemic level of alcoholism that is so dismissed by most people? Is it a genetic based disease, a mental health related issue with a psychological pathology, bad choices inflamed by more bad choices, or an overreaction to a situation where people really feel completely helpless? I've been treating alcoholics for decades and I don't have the answer. I do know that if someone is approached in an aggressive manner they will typically just become more defensive and creative in their ways to deny that anything is causing them to do something which could be rationally described as illogical.

For some people, but not all, paying attention to a psychological process that usually does resolve itself can actually enable a slower resolution. Our team lost, some people still gripe and complain about the referees and revising the rules, and eventually everybody just remembers it as a good point in time or history they were part of.

Hillary Clinton affirmed or supported a lot of her supporters perceptions of who they are. She definitelt earned their respect. She also offered appealing policies and solutions to those who voted for her for reasons that were beyond gender, income, educational background, age or race reasons.  Hence, the process of just "getting over it" needs to happen in a way that lets some people hold onto their identity and individually adjust their heads, while not insulting those who voted for Hillary for one or more other reasons outside of identity reinforcement.

Just a bit of advice, if I may. The former might be explained by the following, whereas the overwhelming majority (and total percentage of Hillary voters) are already on the Obama team.

Yes, there will be insidious people who act like drug company reps offering a pharmaceutical intervention for a kid who just really doesn't take well to sitting in a classroom at a desk for hours on end, but if you listen to the kid long enough you will see if there really is a problem. Sometimes the parents wanting the kid to conform are part of the problem. I know other parents might have differences of opinion on approaches, and parents definitely have their own unique basepoint of patience, but you won't be able to convince me that most parents aren't really pushing conformity because they don't want their kids "handicapped" in society.

Enforcing conformity on someone for any reason almost always ends up badly unless their actions are actually victimizing others. In  this case, the onus on preventing inertia from overtaking PUMA is on PUMA. The ones I have dealt with as part of the confluence are really passionate people who don't see things through the framework of the objectives of a political campaign operative. I do see them being encroached upon by opportunists and salespeople. The authentic ones will see better ways to express themselves in very short time. The other two dozen or so will be left selling rotten carrots to each other, very similar to Hillaryis44.

No political Party ever has 100% buy in to their talking points or policies.We should be welcoming and praising and listening to those Democrats who have already re-united. Don't expect all of them to be all chipper quite yet, but they are the ones who will win this election, not the proportionally smaller pool of Independents or a really small group of very disgruntled Democrats who will come around or at least do no harm in November. Frankly, I'm surprised just how quickly many Hillary voters have already enjoined the Obama campaign with fervor.  

And please lets not forget that judicial appointments at all levels besides the Supreme Court are also at stake, and they are the ones that will have an even more wretched effect on people's lives. The list could easily be expanded, because it's not just PUMAs who can be said to be getting played by the GOP. They don't even really support McCain as more than a vector for their own selfish, greedy and corrupt goals.

the point puma is trying to make is that many of us believe it is a stolen election where the dnc sanctioned it.

if FL/MI were seated in full HRC would have 1726 pledged delegates and BO would have 1705....

she has the popular vote

so we don't believe that it was fair....

that is the argument many of us are trying to make and will continue to make to the SD's....until august.