Reply #1: I voted other. [View All]

[SheilaT]

It seems as though there's a nastiness among the supporters of the different candidates that I don't recall seeing before. Despite how phenomenally bad Bush has been for this country, the in-fighting among Democrats is amazing. You'd think we'd all be doing a better job of presenting a unified front against the cabal that's running this country.

In a very profound way we Democrats, especially the die-hards like those of us here on DU, have never gotten over the coup of 2000. But we're very divided on what we should do to overthrow the coup. Should be indulge in civil disobedience at all opportunities? Should we offer up a military man (Clark or Kerry) to counter Bush's warmongering? Should we go for a man whose social and political commitments are as different from Bush's as possible and still be within a mainstream political party (Kucinich)? How about a moderate, fiscally conservative governor of a small state in New England (Dean) who opposed the Iraq war from the beginning? No point in detailing those no longer in the race.

Choices, we have. But they seem to be in a way mutually exclusive, and that's what's causing the rancor currently out there.