That’s what I’m going to start saying to the supporters of Hillary Clinton who keep telling the press they can’t bring themselves to vote for Barack Obama this fall.

“Then don’t.”

Just think how much whining and complaining would mystically go away if more often we adopted this response to the many free-floating objections we hear from people on a daily basis, whether it’s about significant others, traffic, politics, or your crummy hairdresser.

“I don’t think I can take much more of this.” “Then don’t.”

It really has a put-up-or-shut-up quality to it.

Now that I’m reading and hearing about the ongoing outrage by the Hillaryites, who for some inexplicable reason think their candidate was robbed of an honor to which she was entitled, and who therefore say they won’t vote for Obama, I’m ready to deploy it. So here it is: “Then don’t.”

Don’t come out and vote for the Democratic candidate, who by the way, fairly and squarely beat your candidate within the rules (never requesting that discounted or uncounted delegations suddenly regain their votes, for example).

But then, if you wind up with another White House Administration you don’t like — one that thinks the Iraq War should go on for another 100 years, one that thinks Antonin Scalia is a model Supreme Court Justice, one that thinks $5 million in annual income is the upper register of the middle class — don’t complain about it.

Just move to Canada. And start your complaining there.

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