Will Dean and Kucinich supporters vote for Nader

[Brian Sweat]

if neither Dean nor Kucinich get the Democratic nomination.

[Fovea]

1. Great poll

How did you manage to take the nessesary time off from beating your wife?

[Brian Sweat]

3. I'm not married.

[Julien Sorel]

21. LOL

A man after my own heart. :thumbsup:

[RetroLounge]

58. or lack thereof...

n/t

:thumbsdown:

[skewthat]

41. HAHAHAHAHA

!

[Northwind]

2. Peronally, I would not vote for Nader

If he was running unopposed.

[Classical_Liberal]

4. Repeat of what I just sent in my alert.

This is very dishonest polling since there are no options favorable to Dean or Kucinich supporters.

PS I am a Dean supporter and I will still vote Dem if they aren't nominated. Your post was ignorant and inflammitory.

[Brian Sweat]

9. You mean I forgot to include a favorable option in my

Kucinich and Dean supporter bashing thread? Do you really think this is a poll?

[Classical_Liberal]

10. You mean you lied about your intentions when you created the poll?

?

[pnorman]

28. "This is very dishonest polling since ...

... there are no options favorable to Dean or Kucinich supporters"

RIGHT!! There were good reasons why otherwise staunch Democratic voters finally gave up on that Party in 2000. And if the Democratic Party honchos are equally brain-dead and/or indifferent THIS time, as to WHY that took place, there'll be anothern disaster next year.

[xJlM]

39. I can see trashing a Starbucks

In fact I think it might be fun. But no, I don't vote repug or green.

[Atlant]

42. I alerted too. It did a lot of good, didn't it?

I alerted too, back when this thread had about two replies.
It did a lot of good, didn't it? :-(

Well, maybe more people will send alerts.

Atlant

[RetroLounge]

60. I alerted too.

This is a prime reason for the 5 senetence rule.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. Only if Brian Sweat is running

Then I'm definately going third party.

[Brian Sweat]

36. If I was heading the Democratic Ticket,

I would vote for someone else.

[ott]

6. Ahhhhh

Always good to start out with a cup of something truly asinine to start the day. :)

[CMT]

7. This is another stupid poll

I won't vote in it, but you might be interested to know that most dean and Kucinich people will end up voting for the Democratic nominee. I know lots of Dean people who certainly will support whoever the nominee is.

I can only speak for myself (I'm a Dean supporter) but I've voted straight Democratic ticket for president in every election since 1984 (my first election I could vote in) which is more than I can say for one prominent canddidate for the nomination.

[StopTheMorans]

8. Brian, normally like your posts

and respect your choice for Clark, but this is complete and utterly worthless flame-bait IMHO.

[Brian Sweat]

14. It is no more flame bait that the

"Will Clark vote for Bush" thread.

[Classical_Liberal]

15. I also flamed that one

.

[CMT]

16. yes

but two wrongs don't make a right--and it is not fair to lump all Kucinich and Dean supporters together and blame them for that poll.

[Classical_Liberal]

18. It could have been a Gephardt, Kerry, Sharpton or

Mosley Braun supporter too. Gephardt and Kerry are more damaged by Clark.

[StopTheMorans]

17. yeah, so sinking to that level is cool?

the person who put that up was obviously not thinking clearly (either that or he/she is an a*shole). So call the person out within the thread, call them what they are. There's no reason to get into pissing contests and see how rotten everyone can be. Take a step above the shit man, don't sink to that level and continue to ruin the quality of GD. This is mean-spirited, and I was hoping this weak the Clark/Dean Kucinich rift would have at least become workable by now. I'm not perfect, noone is, but it would be nice if we could at least keep the threads away from being complete and utterly useless flame-bait. Just my two cents.

[Brian Sweat]

20. Some times I feel like sinking to their level.

[StopTheMorans]

23. that's your prerogative then I guess...

n/t

[Kahuna]

27. Hel-lo! How soon they forget..

:eyes:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

54. Sorry but that makes them both flame bait

[AWD]

11. You left out one choice...

"No, they'll vote for Clark, cheer for an invasion, and then claim they were against it. Unless Karl Rove calls, then they're for the invasion again."

[Brian Sweat]

24. That seems like unusual behavior for Dean and Kucinich supporters.

Don't you mean that us Clark supporters will do this?

[AWD]

29. Don't lump me into your shit

I will vote for the Dem no matter what.

[Brian Sweat]

31. How am I "lumping you into my shit?"

[WilliamPitt]

12. I have found Kucinich supporters to be the best Democrats in the country

I've been to New Hampshire, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, Colorado, California, Washington, Montana and Texas in the last couple of months on the book tour. I've met Dennis three different times, and have met Kucinich supporters in every place. I have yet to meet one who would do anything but vote for the nominee when the time comes. They are actually quite adamant about it.

The same goes for Dean supporters. Your poll offers no option for me to vote in this matter.

[CWebster]

13. Oh look

a freeper thread.

Let it stand for a classic example of the borderline Clarkie mindset.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. Painting All Clark Supporters With The Same Brush

Isn't that the textbook definition of prejudice and also an example of a lapse in logic....

I was taught to go from the particular to the universal is illogical and an example of prejudice...

For instance if I had a bad business dealing with a Jewish person and than inferred that all Jewish businessmen were corrupt I would be practicing faulty logic as well as prejudice...

You seem to have found a few disruptive Clark supporters and are now implying that all Clark supporters are disruptive...


That's doesn't sound very liberal to me.....


P.S. To the original poster.... Trashing other folks candidates is not going to win converts to your candidate....

[Brian Sweat]

25. I wasn't trashing Dean or Kucinich

I was trashing their supporters.

[CMT]

35. why are you trashing all there supporters?

just because a few militant ones took exception with Clark? So that makes all Dean and Kucinich people automatic Nader voters if their guy fails to get the nomination?

[Brian Sweat]

37. If you are a true Democrat and have no intention

of bolting the party if your candidate doesn't get the nomination, then there is no reason why you should feel targeted by this post.

[CMT]

47. I do feel that way

because you made me feel that way when you lumped all Dean and Kucinich people together and asked this stupid question. Don't worry about my Democratic credentials they are more impeccable than the candidate you are supporting--who by the way will still get my vote if he is nominated.

[Brian Sweat]

48. I will vote for Dean if he gets the nomination,

but I don't feel the need to question the purity of his ideology.

[diamondsoul]

49. "I was trashing their supporters."

Right, ALL of us, including people like me who have consistantly defended Clark and other candidates from groundless bashing. I shouldn't feel "targeted" according to you, and I probably wouldn't except for the fact that you were very specific about bashing "Kucinich and Dean supporters". Since I'm a staunch Kucinich supporter, YEAH, I feel targeted.

Can you give me a good reason I should speak up and defend your candidate when his supporters are giving as good as they get in the bashing department?

[Brian Sweat]

51. Show me a thread were a Clark supporter has attacked Dean.

Remember, I didn't attack Dean or Kucinich, I attacked their supporters.

I have defended Dean quite a bit and have never attacked him personally. I think he is an excellent candidate and if he gets the nomination, I will be quite happy.

[diamondsoul]

55. Some Dean supporters

seem to believe BillyBunter is attacking Dean in this thread- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=373083&mesg_id=373083

One person's honest scrutiny is another person's "bash". It happens all across these boards with supporters of EVERY candidate- except Lieberman's, and I suspect that's because they seem to be few and far between on DU. Not to mention that Lieberman's campaign staff seem to be doing a fine job of smearing Dr. Dean on a separate web-page.:eyes:

I don't go looking for things like this, Brian, and I don't like it when I'm tricked into opening a thread that is nothing but a personal attack. That's what you did to me, despite my vocal opposition of smear campaigns against Clark AND his supporters!

As a matter of fact there was a comment on this thread, I believe, from Eloriel about Clark supporters "invading DU". I had intended to comment on that but gee, I got sidetracked defending myself and other Kucinich supporters from a rather nasty attack.**edit to say the comment doesn't appear to have been on this thread, and I still intend to respond to it.**

Look, I know it bites to be attacked for no good reason. Obviously or I wouldn't be posting to this thread about it. The thing is, when you sink to that same level you wind up alienating people like me who DON'T attack you or any other supporters without being provoked. Once in a while I respond to the snide, empty slams about Kucinich, but damn I try to resist that temptation. Ya feed the trolls they keep coming back for more.

I've been poked with figurative stick around here, and I've responded. I know very well that it doesn't help anything, except that for a few seconds I feel just a tiny bit vindicated. If that's what this thread has done for you, I'm glad it had some positive affect, but please stop and consider what price you may have paid in support against unfounded bashing later on. You've verbally wounded people who might well have spoken in defense of Clark supporters with this, and people who sit back and yell "grow a thicker skin" are just being self-absorbed jerks. There are people behind these posts, and peple have feelings. Many of us are passionate in our support for our candidate, and sometimes that passion comes out in an ugly form. Don't you think it makes more sense to be watchful of that and avoid it than to give in to it and actually hurt your standing with good people?

[CWebster]

26. Of course it is a reflection of the original post.

ever notice the trait shared most be the Right-- religious fundamentalists, military types, etc., from the the same genre, is that they can't grasp irony or anything subtle? Everything is absolute and humorless.

[Brian Sweat]

30. Man, talk about projection.

If you think I am a freeper or even close to being right of center, you are crazy. In the real world, I am more liberal than 99.5 percent of people. Only on DU can I be considered a centrist, let alone a freeper.

By the way, you're a classic example of the type of person I was directing my original post at.

I voted for Al Gore in 2000. Who did you vote for?

[CWebster]

33. Well actually

I have seen your rabid Nader-hating Green-bashes in the past.

Al Gore.

[Brian Sweat]

34. Yes, I hate Nader and I bash Greens

I also hate Bush and I bash Republicans. Is there some reason why I should give Nader and the Greens any different treatment than Bush and the Republicans.

[Name removed]

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[Brian Sweat]

45. If anyone should know about "haters" having problems

it would be you. What problems do I have?

[Terwilliger]

50. comprehension of left values, for one

I dont hate Democrats Brian, I just wish they'd do what they were supposed to do

[Brian Sweat]

52. Just so long as you get to define

"what they are supposed to do."

[Terwilliger]

57. actual opposition instead of "supposed" opposition would be a start

not too purist of me, is it?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. There You Go Again

-:)

You are suggesting that all Clark supporters are "bad" because a couple of them are....

Not all Clark supporters are knuckle scraping, tobacco chewing, rifle toating, flag waving, yahoos....

In fact one of those touting a Clark candidacy is Arthur Schlessinger Jr.

on edit-

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need is the United States is not hatred : what we need in the United States is not lawlessness;but love and wisdom and compassion towards one another...."

-RFK addressing an African American audience on the eve of Martin Luther King's assasination in Indianapolis, Indiana...

[disgruntella]

22. ugh - the "will clark vote for bush" poll was dumb

But this one is dumber.

[indigo32]

38. Yeah

this is just as lame as the poll you are responding too.
Ughhhh

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. Now That My Miami Dolphins Are

back in the Super Bowl thick I might spend more time at the AOL sports boards....


There is too much h-a-t-e around here.....

And I feel I'm getting sucked in...

[gully]

44. Uhm, I am a Dean supporter who voted for Gore/Clinton/Mondale/etc...

Let's not assume, because you know what they say about assuming. And, I think you've proven the old addage to be a correct one.

[Brian Sweat]

46. Repeat the old addage to yourself

and then think about what you just said.

[gully]

56. I have, and I am an ass for responding to this thread...

:hi: I'll admit my part, you?

[sham]

53. and my ignore list grows a little longer...

soon I'll be ignoring so many asshats on these boards that there will be nothing left to read.

sigh.

this used to be fun. now it feels like a junior high turf war.

[Skinner]

59. I'm going to lock this.

It's pointless flame bait.

To be clear: I have no problem with discussions regarding whether supporters of a particular candidate might vote Green. But this is not the way to go about it.

Skinner
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