ABB: We're the good guys.

[poskonig]

Imagine a Kerry administration. We'd likely see some familiar faces. Howard Dean. John Edwards. Wes Clark. Dennis Kucinich. Hell, we might even see older guys in like Cleland and Reich.

Think about this. Who would be better at HHS? Howard Dean, or big tobacco puppet Tommy Thompson? Would anyone in their right mind prefer Ashcroft over John Edwards? The thought experiment goes on for Gale Norton, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dickless Cheney, and other goons in the Bush administration.

We're all in this together; the Democrats are *not* the bad guys.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. "big tobacco puppet Tommy Thompson"

Hey, when Tommy loses his job, is there any law that says we have to let him back into Wisconsin?

[mouse7]

2. I think Dean will be running for Jeffords Senate seat in 06

I'm almost certain I've seen Jeffords say this would be his last term. Dean is the obvious choice to run for that seat.

[expatriot]

5. that'd be sweet!

[fearnobush]

3. Nope, we don't have to hack in to servers to win elections ether.

If the repukes can only win by disembling information and stealing elections, imagine what the world would be like if they were struck honest by God.

[expatriot]

4. I share your ABB but not **quite** your optimism...

I am passionately ABB but think that the Kerry administration will be a lot of the same faces and same neo-liberal centrist policies as Clinton.

As I tell my radical friends who I am trying to get ABB: "Wouldn't it be nice to protest some 21st Century issues again like free trade instead of having to protest these 19th century and early 20th c. issues of fascism, 40 hour work week in the industrialized world, imperialism, conservationism (instead of environmentalism), etc."

It is a pretty convincing argument. I do not think I am being hypocritical or double-speaking when I say that I will work passionately for a Kerry administration while fully intending to protest many of its policies in the future.

[ibegurpard]

6. Just keep telling yourself that every time the party jettisons another

plank of the platform for the sake of political expediency.