H44 and No Quarter aren't nearly as pro-Clinton as they are anti-Obama. It's sort of like...sure, they'd like Clinton to win, but they really don't want Obama to win. For such people, supporting McCain is a natural progression, as they were never really looking for a Democratic presidency as much as they were looking for a No Obama presidency.

But yes, we do have to push back.

Don't sweat it - the His44 crowd are nuts and can't be reached, but they are a small minority.  They will become increasingly irrelevant - just enjoy watching their heads explode as Obama pulls ahead.

I can see some folks supporting McCain over Obama based on his far greater experience.  For me this is a false support, as you have to look at what someone has done with their experience - in McCain's case, not much.

But to morph resentment and disappointment into hate is bizarre and irrational.   Do the New England Patriots players and fans "hate" the New York Giants for wrecking their perfect season?  I really doubt it.  

Obama won.  Straightforward.   It was very, very close, but he won.   Can we be disappointed?  Yes.  Can some who genuinely believe that McCain is a better candidate than Obama vote McCain?  Sure, no problem with that, just as some Romney supporters would now vote Obama.  But let's not set out to sabotage our own party!

This is the nature of free speech and politics. Obama will be opposed for a multitude of reasons... some rational, some irrational. There will be hate sites and attacks which are not based in reality. Get used to that right now. The goal is to minimize it and push back at it but you will never get rid of it entirely so don't even try.

My advice... ignore it, move on... put your energy into promoting Obama and defeating McCain.

If this makes you feel any better:
I was at Hillary's rally here in NYC on Tuesday... surrounded by her most ardent supporters and backers. There was plenty of time to talk while we were all waiting to get in and waiting for her to speak. I spoke to probably 100 different people at length. There was anger and sadness and exhaustion and frustration... lots of people with little enthusiasm for Obama... but I heard maybe 3 people say they wouldn't vote for Obama and would write in Hillary's name instead. I didn't talk to a single person who would vote for McCain.

Speaking of Hillaryis44...

Have you seen Universal's videos?  

http://www.villarrealsports.com/phpBB2/i ndex.php

Like spandex much?

a lot of people vote for the other person, even if they don't like that person, just because they loathe the opposition.

happens all the time.  GWB wasn't THAT popular in 2004, yet some people loathed Kerry so much that they didn't want Kerry to win; hence their vote for GWB

I am not saying it is sound judgment, but it is nothing new.

I know a number of MyDDers loath going over to Dkos, but there's a good diary up there about the invisible "Whitey Tape"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/6/1 23441/5219/827/531074

These people crop up during every election.  One of the funniest things about the Hillary is 44 folk is that their vitriol is so reminiscent of the the abuse heaped on the Clintons when he took first office.  Will this have any effect?  Who knows?  

Presidential elections, though, are usually decided by actions of the thirty or so million voters who are in the middle.  The hard core folk on all sides just don't have the numbers going for them.

Consider: in 2004 the Democrats were harboring one of the biggest political grudges in modern history (what had happened to Gore in Florida in 2000), and they still weren't able to win because they weren't able to convince voters in the middle to share their outrage (and I say that as someone who wishes this had occurred but it didn't).

The 2008 election might be similar those run in 1980 and 1992 in this respect: there is a significant share of the electorate this year who think that they're not being represented well by the two parties, and many of these voters might look to the smaller parties for alternatives (for all the acrimony of this primary I think this fits into a bigger picture).

So you'll have Nader, Cynthia McKinney and the Greens, Bob Barr and the libertarians, who knows what Ron Paul is going to do, and the Hillary is 44 folk, I suspect, will join their ranks (without their being one candidate who benefits from all of this content, the way John Anderson did in '80 and Ross Perot did in '92).

And here's the odd thing: come November, I have a feeling that Bob Barr and the libertarians might actually turn out to be the most significant of these protest candidates (because while there is no denying the heat generated by this Democratic party, this story has shifted attention away from the real discontent which exists within Republican ranks, McCain doesn't inspire the same level of personal animosity but there are plenty of conservatives who consider him a total sell-out to their principles, and I think that's going to manifest itself in some way).

So who knows?  It's the nutty primary.