Reply #45: Shared "some" views, yes, [View All]

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just like I share "some" views with Shrub. For example, I like sunshine, so does the Shrub. I don't like to see people needlessly killed, so does....oh, waitaminute.

The main reason I brought up wellstone was your avatar of the Green Bus and your sig line. I just find it ironic that for being such a fan of Wellstone you don't support a candidate who more closely shares his views on the issues.

I was there early on in 1990, fighting for Paul at the precinct level caucuses, when the Mondales and Humphreys were busy backing the "electable" Tom Berg, who was more suburban, more "moderate", and more "digestable" as a candidate. We shocked the DFL that year by nominating a real progressive, who went on to shock the nation by beating Mr. Moneybags Boschwitz in the general election. He even gave Rudy Boschwitz a second trouncing, just for good measure, in 1996. He faced a tough race in 2002, but he had a lot of help from the people and several members of congress, including Dennis Kucinich, who even made the trip to MN to help him out.

Paul supported the CHIPS measures in 1996 AFTER Clinton's sorry excuse of a plan was defeated in 1993. Paul Wellstone and the other progressives supported a true UNIVERSAL plan, which was single-payer, and covered not just 91.x% of the population, not "near-universal", but EVERYONE.

In addition, Dean has said he would sign a "single-payer" plan if he is presented with such a plan as President.

Well, I'm quite sure he will. But waiting until he is presented with a plan vs. proposing the plan are two VERY different things.

For example, I could wait to have this funny-looking mole checked out when I have enough $$ to see a dermatologist, or I could take steps RIGHT NOW, TODAY to get it checked and removed if it's cancerous.

"Waiting around" is fine-- for buses, trains, taxicabs, the sky to clear up, hell to freeze over, etc.

It isn't fine when we're talking about ensuring the health of the people in this country.

The time is NOW. The public wants a TRUE Universal single-payer plan, not yet another band-aid over the seething wound that is healthcare in this country.