I recived a text message this morning, asking me to check out blog.deanforamerica.com What I found:
Listen, I am praying for a Dean/Clark ticket in '04. I think the other dems are grabbing at anything now.
Ahem. If we win the battle, but lose the war, it doesn’t mean anything! Can we please do what we need to get rid of Bush? This is why people oft veiw us as disorganized whiners. Please stop giving them ammo!
Cannot compete with Bush? Dean has been in public service since 1983. Bush served one term as govener. Come, now.
Dems, can we please stop the division? It’s getting us no where.
(Did the people at Time authorize this? :dubious: )
My understanding is that Dean was pretty fiscally conservative in Vermont. Hell even an old fashioned Tax and spend Democrat would be better than the Spend and Borrow thing we have going now. I think my 10 year old has it figured out that you don’t piss off people you want something from. I do agree that damaging the front runner so badly he is unelectable is probably not good for the country as a whole, but for the most part the white house seems to be doing a pretty good job of campaigning for the dems.
You better relax, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Just wait til Bush starts spending some of those hundreds of millions of dollars he has amassed while serving as president.
I have seen a bunch of presidential campaigns but I think this one is gonna be the “ding dong daddy” of my experience to date.
As a matter of fact, I think I am gonna participate in this one if Sharpton doesn’t get the nomination.
Shit, just wait til the “Democrats side with Saddam Hussein and Osama and anyone who votes against Bush is commiting treason” commercials start. This is going to be one ugly campaign.
GMRyujin: Yes it will. I consider it to be the acid test of the general intelligence of the American people. Let’s just see if those $300 tax refunds, (which will be the last we will ever see) have bought any votes for Bush.
What makes you think this ad is actually created and sponsored by anyone associated with Democrats? Looks just like more of the phony attack ads that McCain-Feingold is intended to stop. All it means is that at least some faction in the GOP has realized that the 2004 Dem candidate ain’t gonna be Hillary after all, and that they have to pick real-world targets instead.
You hit the nail on the head. If this whole thing were simply about giving one up for the team, then that’s exactly what everyone would do. But the fact is, it’s also about personal ambition. Also, the rabid anit-Bush crowd out there (and here) can’t accept that fact that the vast majority of people in this country do not consider Bush to be evil incarnate.
The ad in question was payed for by Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values. The founder of said group is former congresscritter Edward Feighan. Ol’ Eddie is a Democrat. You have heard of ‘Democrats’, no? As in, ‘No, they are not Republicans’? As in, ‘Stop with the idiotic conspiracies about the GOP founding secret cabals to run attack ads’.
There is no difference, and you are still a halfwit.
You guys should go Dean/Nader. That way you won’t lose like last time (well not the same way I guess).
Hardyhar. I dream of a time when Canada has at least a two party system again. The PC party here just flushed themselves down the Alliance toilet so I guess I have to wait for the NDP to get credible.
Isn’t the point of the nomination process to produce the strongest member for your party? The candidates get to hone everything so that when it’s down to the final party’s candidate, that person is the best the party can put forth. I am just thinking of Perot, when he ran and completely imploded during the campaign. I don’t think that would have happened if he would have had to fight to get a party’s nomination.