Is there a "Wiener for President" site up yet?

[rurallib]

I believe if he were president, he would back the public option with his full weight.

[madmax]

1. Love this guy

He sure does show he's got a fire in the belly.

[rurallib]

2. I hope his spine is contagious. Yet I hold no hope.

[madmax]

5. Awe c'mon ruallib

Hope and love is all ya need ;)

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I would vote for him..

[brand404]

25. He's genuine and clearly cares for the People.

[roguevalley]

26. he's long time friends with Jon Stewart

[BrklynLiberal]

46. That raises them both in my esteem.

[redstateblues]

4. stirring words

[Cleita]

6. How about a ticket with him and Alan Grayson as VP candidate?

I could vote for that ticket gladly.

[scheming daemons]

9. That ticket would fail to win a single electoral vote

and would get about 30% of the vote.

Ideological purity is nice.... but it doesn't win national elections.

[amborin]

10. need big bankster and health corporations' $$$$$ to do that!

[Cleita]

12. Well as long as we keep thinking like that, we will keep getting DLC

DINOs running for office. One of these days the status quo may get a big surprise, when a third party candidate like Ross Perot or Ralph Nader actually wins because people are so fed up with their corrupt political parties that they will make it happen.

[whistler162]

32. Oh I don't know it would appeal to both extremes

Michael Weiner and Alan Grayson!

[BrklynLiberal]

47. A true Dream Team.

[scheming daemons]

7. Yeah... here's his campaign bus

[hisownpetard]

11. The Weinermobile!!

Hahahaaaa!

[freddie mertz]

41. This was parked outside my office for a week, last month.

I hope Weiner runs.

Or maybe they can get that original Obama guy to run again.

You know, the promising, exciting young guy than ran in the last election?

[krawhitham]

8. I would like him on the ticket as VP in 2012

Biden will be to old to run for POTUS in 2016 so put someone younger in VP in 2012

[salguine]

20. I'd rather see him on the ticket as P, myself.

[brand404]

24. +1000

[krawhitham]

39. Because it worked out so well for Carter and Kennedy

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

[kiva]

42. +1

[ProSense]

13. Really?

Not single payer?

Of course, when he abandoned that effort before the public option vote, he was kicked to the curb by the all or nothing crowd.

People seem to have no clue about strategy, fighting until the reality of the situation is at hand and compromising to get the best bill possible. Weiner, unlike Kucinich, voted for the House health care bill.

[lamp_shade]

28. "no clue about strategy" - Boy, you hit the nail on the head, ProSense.

[brand404]

14. K&R

[asdjrocky]

15. Unfortunately, the second he decides to run,

the corporate run media will start in on him.

Guys the tell the truth about power never make it far in corporate America.

Need proof? Is he invited to the much touted Health Summit? No he's not, is he?

[ProgressOnTheMove]

36. This is where we have to start early if we want good folks in DC 2016 starts here....

No time like the present to work for him for 2016. This gives us all the time in the world to make his name abundant everywhere. Weiner 2016 it doesn't jut mean hot dog. I believe the more we fight for this guy the more he'll fight for us, some names require strength and he's go it. I'm still enthusiastic for Judy Chu though maybe VP.

[Scarsdale Vibe]

16. Did he fulfill your emotional needs? The fantasy-based wing of progressive politics is so tiring.

[asdjrocky]

17. Not nearly as tiring as the DLC brand of politics being practiced by the White House.

[Puglover]

31. No kidding.

Predictably I see ignores all over this thread. Always the usual suspects swarming a thread with their bullshit. Talk about tiring.

In 7 years I never had a person on my ignore list until this crap started. Since I put about 15 of the worst on it DU is immeasurably better.

[Dr.Phool]

34. You lasted about as long as I did.

Just couldn't take it anymore.

Some days, I click on a thread in GD-P, and every thread says, "You have this person on ignore". Go figure.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

44. They all come out of the woodwork dont they

Pathetic really.

[Dr.Phool]

35. You seem to be looking forward to minority status.

The insanity based wing of conservadem politics is so tiring. :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Phx_Dem]

37. No kidding. All anyone has to do is scream, "I HATE THE GOP"

into a mic and they try to draft that person for President, because populist rhetortic is all it takes to become President. They don't want the best person to be President, they want the most bombastic. Alan Grayson? Really?

These people have lock-step Borg mentalities.

[Solomon]

38. Yep. Anybody but Obama.

Everybody knows more, has more guts, is more progressive, smarter, everything. I wonder how the hell Obama got elected in the first place?. My dentist, my barber, the cab driver, everybody I know can be more effective as president than Obama.

Tomorrow there will be somebody else nobody knows who will say something sounding good and he/she will be our next candidate for 2012.

[MadBadger]

18. Little early for 2016 websites

[cascadiance]

22. To replace the Republican that will win of we don't run a primary challenger in 2012?

Obama IS heading for only a single term unless the equation is changed.

I think a ticket like Howard Dean with Anthony Weiner would be a great one I could get behind then, and then the 2016 campaign would be for re-election for three straight terms of a Democrat, and a second term for a pair that might be beginning phase 2 of fixing all of the problems by BOTH Republicans and DemoratS that have been "running" the country since Reagan took office.

[LeftyAndProud60]

19. he could back it, and still wouldn't get 50 votes in the senate for it. NT

[jgraz]

21. Only if the Pubbies nominate Boehner.

Can't wait for the Weiner/Boehner debates.

[brand404]

23. Weiner is AMAZING! Wiener/Grayson 2012!!! Now THAT is a team for the People.

[O is 44]

27. I'm still not convinced he would

have an easier time of getting it passed. Far, too many egos that need to be stroked in the Senate and a few in the house starting with Stupak. Not everyone wants the PO proof is in how only 24 Senators have signed up to do it through reconciliation to date. If they really wanted it we would already have the 50 plus Biden. Admire the guy’s passion though, but I’m still with Obama for 2012.

[FrenchieCat]

29. Fantasies are easy to support!

Supporting a President who has to actually deal with all of the shit,
well that's when some run in the other direction.

They want someone who always appears to be winning at everything,
even if it's nothing but talk....
but as soon as things aren't comfortable, folks are gone.
Peeps are fickle that way.

[freddie mertz]

43. What we want is a real Democrat. A young, inspiring agent of change.

You know, like that Obama guy who ran last time.

I wonder what ever happened to him?

[cutlassmama]

30. He was amazing on C-span.

[Dr.Phool]

33. Weiner-Grayson!

[freddie mertz]

40. I'd back him, big time.

We need a real Democratic alternative.

[girl_interrupted]

48. Count me in! Very proud of Weiner

and Grayson!

[ProSense]

45. Weiner

Will he vote for the final bill?

[freddie mertz]

50. That's up to him.

I will support his decision either way.

Will you?

[WI_DEM]

49. He won't challenge Obama but you might check and see what happens in '16...

hopefully he will not be in the house then but either a senator or governor because congressmen aren't taken seriously as presidential candidates.

[WCGreen]

51. Well, we had a dick...

I'm sorry, it's been a long day, I couldn't resist...

[Freddie Stubbs]

52. 2016 is a long ways away

[cliffordu]

53. VP in '12 and then Pres in 16!!!!