Which of these Dem nominees would have made the best president?

[WI_DEM]

[chemp]

1. never will understand the Gore love fest

in '92, Clinton didn't impress me much, but when he picked Gore for VP, I felt I needed a barf bag in order to vote against Bush the Elder.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. I Like Gore NOW. He's changed.

Had he USED Clinton during the 2000 election, maybe we wouldn't be sitting where we are today. Clinton would have helped him win BIG TIME in FL. (by a bigger margin than he won with) and maybe even in his own home state. I think he made a HUGE mistake by shunning Clinton's offer to campaign for him. Big, big mistake. That made the election close enough to steal. :( AND, here we are watching the bastards destroy our country.

[Greyhound]

9. The Gore/Lieberman campaign was a clusterfuk from the beginning

and it just got worse as they went on. I'm too disgusted to go into all that crap again.

[skylarmae]

2. why?

n/t

[blm]

3. I actually believe its a tie between McGovern, Gore and Kerry.

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[izzie]

4. I wonder if the best run?

If this country does not have better than what the two parties have produced I would be shocked. It is who can be voted in.

[jobycom]

12. I think the skills it takes to get elected

Are the very skills required to run a democracy. I'd rather a philosopher-president who stuck to a pure ideology at all costs, but the problem is, a president has to deal with fickle, ever changing public opinion, with a Congress which changes every two years and is therefore more attuned to public opinion, and a Supreme Court that holds on to tradition. Everyone will hate him and want him to fail, and he has to manage to get something done knowing that neither side will be happy, that one slip-up will ruin his career, and that even if he does everything right, his career could still be ruined by an unseen enemy, even on his own side.

It's kind of like campaigning.

So I think we get the best candidates our form of government will allow us to have. Campaigning brings out the qualities, often unappealing, that a person needs to be president.

Bush, of course, wasn't rightfully chosen, so he can do whatever he wants. Gore and Kerry were good.

[cloud75]

5. john kerry stood up for something during his formative years...

against the vietnam war...i wish he would have had that same conviction in 2004.

[jobycom]

7. Look at Gore, making a DU comeback. In the early days, he was

the traitor du jour. Then Kerry... Dean will be next to the gallows. Democrats eat their own children, then apparently venerate them when it's too late.

[Larkspur]

8. Gore is a better man than Bill Clinton the adulterer ever was

and definitely light years ahead of Bush.

In 2000, a friend tried to convince me to support Bradley. I liked Bill Bradley so I watch him and Gore in a debate and Gore was excellent. Bradley look too tired to take on the Bush-Rove machine. That debate sealed my support for Gore.

I never understood the enthusiasm over Clinton. My mom saw Bill for the philander that he is. Neither my mom nor I voted for Clinton in the IL primary in 1992.

I just chalk up the Clinton support that should be a new chapter in Charles MacKay's book, "Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds." Bush support belongs in that book too.

[Onlooker]

10. McGovern

He was a true liberal.

[grumpy old fart]

11. Gore/Edwards/Dean just to cover all bases.....n/t