Would you support/vote for whoever the 2008 Democrat nominee is?

[Zynx]

Inspired by the bashing Bayh is getting in LBN for nosing about a Presidental run.

PRIMARIES ASIDE, would you vote for whoever gets the Democratic nomination in 2008 in the general election?

[kentuck]

1. De ja vu ?

I seem to recall this same discussion before the last election?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. It's pretty damn simple

You can have someone that is close to your beliefs or you can have someone that is antithetical to your beliefs. Anyone who tries to make an "other" choice is in total and complete denial over the realities of our current political system. There IS no "other". And no, I don't like that one bit, but that's life. You either play the game, or it plays you.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

3. My first obligation as a member of the Dem party is...

(altogether now)... To get Democrats in office.

[oldtime dfl_er]

4. this is the make-or-break election

for our Constitution and our democracy.

www.cafepress.com/showtheworld

[oneold1-4u]

11. You don't get what you want!

Most of the country and some industries never cared for daylight savings time. Then the government allowed states, cities, and some companies to do as they pleased. ONE HELL OF A MESS! So now it is a law, and they plan to change that to a 2 hour longer day??? Come on! As long as we have what we have today, taking government of the people apart 24/7, we are in chaos!
Yeah, we would like a new and better process, but we have to take the major first steps to get there. I'd vote for anyone who begins a rational honest stand to take back America and make it truly better!
My honest nomination would be Bill Gates!! Already owns it all and has helped America more than the past 10 presidents put together!

[smoogatz]

5. Obviously, I'd prefer a candidate from the Democratic wing

of the Democratic party, rather than the corporate wing. At the moment, that means someone who can run as a social moderate and an economic populist. Do we have such a person?

[katinmn]

12. Yeah, and some haven't declared yet.

We have to get some progressives elected to higher office.

I'm not wasting time on corporate-owned candidates of any party. And I think a lot of people feel the same way.

A lot of us are a lot smarter now than we were before. We're watching the money that comes in and how they vote.

The bankruptcy bill should open a lot of eyes!
Too many Democrats accepted money from credit card companies and related banking organizations, and look what happened.

[Double T]

6. In 2008 We Have To Get It Right

[Hippo_Tron]

7. If it were Bayh vs Santorum I'd vote for Bayh

Bayh won't legislate faith, Santorum will.

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. I will not vote to enable the treasonous neocon-corporatist agenda.

These traitors are killing our country with their bullshit war against a fictional enemy and their pro-corporate power votes.

Anyone who endorses this sick anti American agenda will not have my support.

Furthermore, I will not vote for a candidate whose only "qualification" is that she was married to a fucking President. Anyone who takes Hillary serious as a candidate really needs a mental health evaluation.

[nickshepDEM]

9. Yes. If we dont win in 2008 we WILL be up shits creek without a paddle...

Within the next 8 years there will be 3 or 4 retirees from the Supreme Court. If we go 0 for 3/4, we will be FUCKED.

[Darranar]

10. Too early to say. Not definitely. n/t

[cosmokramer]

13. ONLY ONLY ONLY if the candidate is PRO-CHOICE, and PRO

'family' rights (gay unions)

[Steel City Slim]

14. Voting Responsibly

I feel it is a responsibility of citizenship to vote for the best person for an office. For me so far, when voting for president, that person has always been a democrat. To say blindly that one would vote for the democratic candidate no matter who that person might be and who the opposing candidate might be is, in my opinion, misguided.

[wyldwolf]

15. I think the first two choices are pretty similar

[KoKo]

16. Dream on......Dream on....2008... Dream on...n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

17. I voted Go Third Party. But I would never stay home. I am a ....

proud American who takes their rights seriously!

[Mass]

18. As long as he is not to the right of the Republican nominee`\nt

[bklyncowgirl]

19. Would I vote for him/her? Probably. Enthusiastically, it depends.

I was an enthusiastic Kerry supporter and would also have been thrilled with Dean as the nominee. I probably could have learned to love General Clark too. Had the nominee been Gephardt, the guy who helped shepherd the IWR through the House, I would have been considerably less enthusiastic but most likely would have voted for him.

I haven't voted third party for president since the 1980s when I cast a vote for Barry Commoner and helped get Reagan into office--Joe Lieberman might have broken that string of Democratic votes but most likely in the end I would have held my nose and voted Democrat as I did throughout the Clinton years.

[borg5575]

20. If it were Lieberman, I absolutely could not.

I couldn't vote for him, so I don't know what I'd do. I wouldn't want to vote for any Republican either. But if doubt if we would ever nominate Lieberman.