Who do you wish was our nominee right now more ? Please read before voting

[Bombtrack]

I ask this with no agenda. I was thinking about it and I honestly couldn't decide one way or the other.

The choices are:

Kerry, as he is, outside the public financing system

or

Clark, as he would have been, within the public financing system

Please explain your votes

[MoonRiver]

1. What's the point of this poll?

All it can possibly do is encourage negativity. We need to be accentuating the positive right now. However, it does look like Kerry wins in a landslide, so maybe it was a good idea after all! :grouphug:

[haypops]

17. landslide

Kerry may be wining here in a landslide, but in the real world he is pulling advertising from numerous states where he was supposed to be competitive. To be a little more optimistic Kerry7 does have a reputation as a strong closer and the convention has just begun. I will be holding my breath in anticipation until November.

[KathCO]

2. Kucinich!

[jsw_81]

6. Kucinich?!?

Yeah, let's dump our electable war-hero for a fringe nobody who wouldn't even win his home state. </sarcasm>

[genius]

9. Dennis wins his district by 74%. His has more integrity that the other

candidates combined. Of course, for those who don't like integrity, keep talking about the fringe. It makes you sound uneducated.

[no name no slogan]

7. Right with you!

He'd be exciting, energizing, and NOT AFRAID to nail BushCo HEAD ON about their lies, deceit, and efforts to sell America to the highest bidder.

You wouldn't have a neck-and-neck race between the worst president in history and some melvin milquetoast from the northeast. The voters would also know exactly where the presidential candidate stood, too, because he not be afraid to explain his positions, without using waffly politico-speak, too. Instead of most people voting "against Bush", they'd be voting FOR the DEMOCRAT.

You would have a party platform that would RIGHTLY call the Mess O' Potamia a MISTAKE, and would renounce the further use of US troops to enforce the will of Unocal, Halliburton, and the other corporations

Furthermore, you wouldn't see the "Democratic" convention sponsored by the likes of AT&T, Credit Suisse, Citigroup or any other global trans-nationals, as it would once again be the party of the PEOPLE, not just another wing of the same corporate money machine. Instead of the party of Dukakis, we'd be the party of FDR.

But, apparently the powers that control the party think it's more important to whore it out to the highest bidder and sacrifice its past ideals so it can "appeal" to corporate kleptocracy.

But again, I digress.

Yay Kerry.

[LWolf]

14. YES. Dennis Kucinich.

[Bread and Circus]

3. Bombtrack, why post this?

I was a Clark supporter but now it seems moot.

Anyway, I think Clark was the best person for the
job but perhaps not the best campaigner. The "Party"
is a big "good ol' boy" network so Clark never stood
a chance.

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Rather than participate...

I will just say that I am very glad that Kerry opted out of the public financing system for the Primaries. That keeps the accent completely on the positive, and I see no advantage in speculating beyond that. Heck, Clark could have picked Dean as his VP early and since Dean opted out, he could have raised money for the ticket. Who knows? It is what it is and we should win in Novemeber.

[Comicstripper]

5. Not Clark

I like him, but you know how the GOP is going nuts attacking Edwards's "inexperience," despite the fact that he has been an elected official as long as Bush had when he became President? Yeah, just imagine what they'd do to Clark...

[Protected]

11. Clark isn't inexperienced.

I'm not sure where you got that from. Yes, he's politically inexperienced, but I think that's a very appealing trait.

I'm still not sure what the point of this poll is, though.

[Comicstripper]

13. No, I agree with you

but the Republicans won't see it that way. They're attacking Edwards for his political inexperience, they'd go nuts with Clark, who literally has none, at least not in the traditional sense. That's all I was saying.

[genius]

8. Kucinich

[Jane Austin]

10. FWIW, Clark had an ability to connect with people personally

and could answer questions cogently and succintly.

He's livelier, too, and his credentials were stellar.

He wasn't burdened with the "rich kid" label, nor with a 20-year voting record for the Republicans to exploit.

And by the way, I think the complaints about Kerry which I have "answered" above are stupid and irrelevant. I just wish the convential wisdom media didn't use them so constantly.

Having said all that, I think Kerry will make an outstanding president.

[formernaderite]

12. Okay we get you were a clarkie....

...my choice was Dean, DEAN and more DEAN.

[AntiCoup2K4]

15. Howard Dean!

Explanation not necessary if you have been listening to him all these months.

[hellhathnofury]

18. ...

Yeup

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. Who Do You Love More - Your Mother Or Your Father?

What a waste of Skinner's bandwidth....