MWO: Reason #1 to Consider a Vote Transfer Come November

[Bolo Boffin]

[Walt Starr]

1. ???

???

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Delay thanks you for your stance, Walt.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Howard Dean's supporters.....

are EXTREMLY BELIGERENT! Even though he is FAR from my first choice, I will FULLY support Howard Dean should he be our nomminee.

By the way, this beligerency of the Dean campaign is a major reason as to why I am turned off by it!

[Bozola]

14. What are you talking about?

"Belligerency", btw.

[HFishbine]

29. You know

all that damn punctuation!!!!

[HuckleB]

16. Yeah, they're all just like Walt!

Sorry, but the beliigerence of that statement is enough to turn anyone sour. It's so far off base, it's difficult to even respond.

[Bozola]

21. I suppose that "???"

could be mistaken for "666"...in which case, its not belligerence, but an apt description of that Republican thug.

[Walt Starr]

37. Actually, the ??? was

because I didn't have a fucking clue what the original poster was driving at. I was asking for clarification because I do not go to MWO and have not for months.

I won't add to that site's hit count.

[Bolo Boffin]

20. Not all Dean supporters are belligerent.

Not all Dean supporters are also opponents of every other Democratic candidate out there.

On edit: corrected spelling.

[Guaranteed]

28. Damn right we're belligerant

We're indignant, too!

[Snivi Yllom]

40. beligerency?

Beligerency from other candidates is what Dean put up with for weeks.

[Walt Starr]

8. Didn't recognize the face

Your picture is very distorted.

NBD '04

[Bolo Boffin]

13. It will become more recognizable to you in the years ahead.

If it were Dean or nobody who would take up the Presidency next year, that would be fine.

But the office shall be held by someone. If not Dean, who?

[Walt Starr]

15. I do not fear Bush

I will not allow my vote to be ruled by fear.

[HuckleB]

18. Tell that to the environment, the unemployed, the underemployed,

the uninsured, the rest of the world. Four more years of Bush is far to damaging to play the high and mighty pure routine this year.

[HFishbine]

31. Don't forget to tell it to

the families of the 500 + dead American soldiers who are no longer with us thanks to democratic Bush enablers.

[Bolo Boffin]

22. No, only your country

[TreasonousBastard]

23. Well, I fear Bush...

so my vorte is eminently transferable.

I hope I'm not alone.

[John_H]

7. a kick so more Dems can read Walt's response

[Walt Starr]

12. Hell, I'll kick it too

NBD and proud of it!

[Bolo Boffin]

17. If not Dean, then who?

Someone will assume the office next January.

[Walt Starr]

19. Whomever

I will not vote for the following:

Kerry
Clark
Edwards
Bush
Lieberman
Kucinich

I would vote third party, write in Dean's name, or leave the presidential race blank.

I draw the line at Dean after the way so-called Democrats have treated their own.

NBD '04

[rumguy]

24. God you're a hoot buddy! LOL - reminds me of my 3 year niece...

I will tell you how you are acting - juvenile.

If you can't get EVEYTHING you want, you don't want any of it...

[HuckleB]

25. Why allow pettiness to get in the way of improving the lives of...

your fellow citizens of the U.S. and the world? Sorry, it's far too fundamentalist a notion. Ethics are not that simple.

[rumguy]

26. Fantastic point: OD (only Dean) is a selfish mindset!

[HFishbine]

35. Here's a test for your ethics

If enough Dean people threatened to bolt the party that it made a Bush win more likely, would you vote for Dean to keep those people with us?

[HuckleB]

36. Interesting.

The point is mute since I am a Dean supporter already. What's your answer?

27. I'll bite

I just don't get this.
I'm coming from a place where I'm for Dean, I worked for the McGovern campaign, I voted for Nader in '96.
The Democratic party the past decade seems to me to have moved to the right in general, but there is no way I'm going to leave the ballot blank, write-in Dean's name or vote third party this time around.
Sometimes politics is the art of compromise, sometimes it's standing your ground; it seems to me that this year is not the time for this standing of ground. The stakes are too high.
Isn't that evident?
Well, if Bush becomes president for the next 4 years, maybe it will create some kind of revolution

--- from the I Ching on Revolution --

"Political revolutions are extremely grave matters. They should be undertaken only under stress of direst necessity, when there is no other way out"

Are these one of those times? If so, then only vote Democratic if Dean gets the nomination.

[Hoppin_Mad]

39. You really wouldn't vote for DK if he was the nominee ? I would -nt-

[Walt Starr]

42. Nope, sure wouldn't after the way he sold out in Iowa

Nope, I have to put Kucinich right next to Edwards now.

[HuckleB]

44. The final proof.

Your stand is clearly about petty fundamentalism. Improving your country be damned, I guess. Whatever. Just don't try to tell me there is any principle there other than pure selfishness. You just showed that to us all.

[corporatewhore]

41. why not kucinich he is the only one willing to end the colonialism

my father came back from iraq and will be redeployed in 2005 serving in the holy imperalistic occupation for oil whether dean clark or bush is prez

[Walt Starr]

43. He sold out the anti-War position in Iowa

I have to consider him in an identical fashion to how I consider edwards now.

[oasis]

4. Delay and Orin hatch will be in charge of loading up the Supreme Court

with fundie whackos.

[oasis]

5. Supreme Court and the draft rank high on the list.

[oasis]

Ooops Delayed dupe.

[oasis]

6. Delay and Orin Hatch will be in charge of loading up the Supreme Court

with fundamentalist whackos.

[louis-t]

10. heard you the first time!

and agree with you.

[Bozola]

9. Separated at birth

[arcane1]

11. am I missing something..?

what's this about transferring votes in November..?

:shrug:

[democracyindanger]

30. It's the fashion for some

people to declare that they're only going to vote for their candidate, even if their candidate isn't the Democratic nom. :shrug:

[Bolo Boffin]

32. An ABB vote is a vote for veto power against this...

...haughty, arrogant man.

I wish I had a link to streaming video of this moment. It's engrained in my memory forever.

Bush had just mentioned that parts of the Patriot Act were set to expire in 2005. Surprisingly, several Democrats joined in a round of applause, stunning Bush for just a moment. He then leveled his planned rejoinder ("but the terrorist threat will never expire"), called on Congress to pass the Patriot Act permanently, and the Republican side of the room got to its feet.

The cameras focused on Delay for the length of the ovation.

There was nothing but naked comtempt and smugness in his demeanor. This man is the enemy of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

He must be restrained.

[AntiCoup2K4]

33. If you are implying that a Dem nominee could remove Bug Boy from power...

...then you had better ensure that nominee is someone who can bring more voter to the polls than Gore did. And I can promise you right now, John Kerry is not that candidate. Dean is. Clark might be. Edwards? I doubt it.

Simple equation, to take back the House we need to bring a lot of voters into the equation. And even Republicans who cross over to vote against Bush may not neccessarily vote a straight Democratic ticket. Though I would hope even they realize that DeLay is every bit as vile as Junior is.

[Bolo Boffin]

34. In the nation's history, Ronald Reagan got more voters to the poll...

...than anyone else. Ever.

Who's number 2 on that list?

Al Gore.

In the short term, this election promises veto power over the actions of Tom Delay and a Republican-led, right-wing-driven Congress. This objective alone is worth an ABB vote.

[Hoppin_Mad]

38. Thank God Clark is slipping and is now being written off

I would hate to have to make the decision of voting for the lesser of two true evils in 04