Will 2016 be the most depressing election in generations?

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I've been thinking this recently. Hillary Clinton running against some random Republican Senator/Governor/whatever is a situation where everyone loses, regardless of the outcome.

No, an election where everyone would lose is where the Democratic nominee is Brian Schweitzer. He's only a DINO.

As long as we get a real liberal like Hillary Clinton, Biden, O'Malley, Hickenlooper, Sherrod Brown, one of the Vermontans etc., it will be an active, vigorous campaign. As for Republicans, with Christie in hot oil now and pretty much doomed, if they could get Huntsman, a Hillary vs. Huntsman match-up would be highly competitive and worth getting into. Otherwise, Hillary would crush just about anyone else Republicans would attempt to throw at her.

In what world is Clinton a REAL Liberal and Schweitzer a DINO?

Clinton never gave up on her own party (see MT Sen: 2014), and last time I checked, Clinton isn't an NRA darling like Schweitzer. He doesn't represent the true values of the establishment, true leftist base of the Democratic Party and would really be better off as an independent given how, like Sanders, he's attempting to move farther left to the Democrats ideologically on some social and economic issues. Although that drastically failed as someone whose proven to be more about the needs his own, flawed state before that of the country while Hillary cares more about us at a national level (as Senator) than just caving into the demands of her husband's red state for example. Schweitzer could learn something from that. By running for President, you need to think of everyone in the party nationwide, not just pleasing your own state (especially one that prefers Cruz over him).

Last I checked, Schweitzer didn't vote for the Iraq War, PATRIOT Act, support NSA spying, or oppose single-payer. A case can be made that Schweitzer is a DINO, but he's much, much better than Hillary.

And what the heck is the "establishment, true leftist base of the Democratic party"?