I will support the Democratic nominee in '08

[Kingofalldems]

I don't care who it is-Hillary, Obama, Kerry, Clark, Bayh, Vilsack. I am a Democrat and this is DU. Every person listed is 100 times better than anything the repubs will put up. I think we should all remember this. The potential nomineees will be put to the test in the primaries and I trust the voters. Just my 2 cents.

[Not Me]

1. Agreed.

And I think the tsunami of 2006 will continue through 2008. (Picking up even more Senate seats as well.)

[More Than A Feeling]

2. I will do likewise, but until there actually is a nominee, I will support

the candidate that speaks for me, who won't necessarily be one who is dubbed "electable".

[Kingofalldems]

9. Fine---but

All the people I mentioned, and I'm sure I missed a few, are all loyal Democrats and there is no need for any DUer to trash them.

[More Than A Feeling]

10. I suspect "trashing" will be in the eye of the beholder...

criticizing the other's candidate will be fair due diligence, criticism of your own candidate will be an unconscionable slur.

[Kingofalldems]

12. True

But I'm old enough to know it when I see it. BTW-I'm not saying you do it. Cheers!

[Debs]

42. Exactly my take

I will support Spongebob if thats who the Dems run. Leaving the office vacant would be better than a Bush replay, but until they have a nominee Dennis Kucinich is MY guy. I doubt he will EVER be President even though I also think that a loss for our country. I will NOT be stampeded by those who foist conventional wisdom at me so that I have to support someone early they deem electable.

[applegrove]

3. Agreed from Canada

[AtomicKitten]

4. Me too!!!!

[papau]

5. Agreed :-)

:-)

[SaveElmer]

6. Yep...

No argument here!

[jefferson_dem]

7. Moi too. Viva Solidarity!

:bounce:

[Ethelk2044]

8. 2008

Very well Put.  I agree

[Robeysays]

11. i'll drink to that!

:toast:

[goodhue]

13. So will I!

And until then I'll support support Dennis Kucinich for president.

[champt10]

14. I May Not want to...

Vote for Hillary, but I think in the end, putting a democrat in the whitehouse is more important to me. Though, if McCain hadnt moved to the right, and had some balls to stand up to the base, I could have seen myself voting for him. Now though, he is lost to me. I still hope it is not her and it is one of the other guys.

[Clarkie1]

15. Me too. nt

[IndianaGreen]

16. Kinda early for loyalty oaths, aren't you?

:eyes:

but since we only have two declared candidates, thank you for supporting Dennis Kucinich. He will get us out of Iraq the moment he takes the Presidential Oath of Office.

Go Dennis!

Who's that guy from Iowa, Bilesack?

[champt10]

17. Vilsack

He is the governor of Iowa

[IndianaGreen]

18. Obama is easier to pronounce and write

plus it rhymes with "tell mama, I'm for Obama."

Bilesack is no longer governor of Iowa, but I believe he is still the DLC Chair.

[champt10]

19. VILsack

Actually, VILsack is still the governor of Iowa, though he didnt run again this year. His term has not ended just yet.

[IndianaGreen]

20. Ahhh, okay

and the new governor is...?

[champt10]

21. No clue

I have no clue

[Jim Lane]

33. The incoming Governor of Iowa is....

Chet Culver, the current Secretary of State, and a Democrat. Bio .

[IndianaGreen]

41. Great!

My favorite Iowan was always Senator Harkin!

[Inspired]

37. Good Lord

Bilesack? What is that all about?

[Kingofalldems]

28. If he wins the nomination I'm right behind him

He's also a loyal Democrat, and he has moxie. Doesn't mince words.

[IndianaGreen]

31. Tell that to Lieberman and to his loyal throng of followers

the man is a traitor!

[Kingofalldems]

32. See my post below re Lieberman.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

38. How mature of you.

Sadly, I think you're quite indicative of Kucinich supporters.

[Patsy Stone]

22. Okay, Mister...

That kind of thinking will get you nowhere.

:thumbsup:

[longship]

23. I will not support any candidate until the campaign begins.

And let's get this straight right now. It's too freaking early to be talking about who to support for the freaking 2008 presidential bid.

Come on, DUers. Don't fall for the media permanent campaign mode trick. Give it a rest. Sit back. Drink some wine, or a Manhattan or two. Read a book. Relax. Go out to dinner, or dancing. If you must do something political, there are many things to support for the upcoming 110th Congress which, if you haven't been paying attention, will be in Democratic Party hands for the first time in a dozen years. It seems like we might be better served if we formed some kind of action with respect to *that* rather than spewing all this crap about 2008.

There's precisely zero reason to be posting all these 2008 candidate threads. If there's one thing we can be absolutely sure of, it's that today's perceived front runners are tomorrow's dead meat on the campaign highway.

Let it go for a year. Let the media blather about it. We don't need five freaking thousand threads every day about the 2008 election.

Stop the insanity. Please. It's totally pointless.

[Patsy Stone]

25. Janet Doobydoo speaks for me!

Well said.

Cheers! :toast:

[Kingofalldems]

26. We have a winner here!

The primaries will sort everything out--and hopefully be decided on issues and electability. And I must amend my original post. I would sit out if a miracle happens and Lieberman is nominated. But I don't think that's a problem.

[Infinite Hope]

27. I agree. (Though it has begun). And I will support the eventual nominee. n/t

[longship]

30. Nonsense.

The campaign has begun only in the news media's minds. They'd have us in permanent campaign mode, day-in and day-out, year-in and year-out. It sells more luxury SUVs ads, more beer ads, more other useless rubbish ads.

Say, "No!" Now!

Give it a rest. Let the future dead campaign meat declare their candidacies all they want. In the meantime, we all have another important matter to deal with called the 110th Congress. If we spent 1/10th the effort on 2007 Congressional issues that we are expending on blathering about an election which won't happen for over twenty-two months maybe that Congress would finally do some of our bidding.

I'm sick and tired from the 2006 election. We've got other work to do now. Let's let 2008 go until things shape up, about a year from now.

[aaronbees]

35. I support all candidates now

I guess that's my take. More voices the better as far as I'm concerned. Too early for me to come out and back anyone in particular whole hog though I have a couple favorites. I wish this process to be open and democratic, and hope our party lives up to those democratic ideals as we go forward. Among the announced and rumored candidates, it strikes me as a fine field of folks. So, I agree with much of what you say about relaxing all this, though it's apparent candidates are going to start testing the waters now -- that is news, actually, but it's of small consequence. What I find so repulsive around here is the circular firing squads revving up and with lines drawn and all opponents already sliced up for good. Just ridiculous, and largely done without factual basis and any understanding of where we'll be in a year's time.

[Infinite Hope]

24. Amen.

2 years is a long time to put up with the obsessive conspiracy theorists who even detect conspiracy amongst our own. Some people on DU are so opposed to dialogue that they attack fellow members for any effort at balance. Hacks from the left are hardly better than hacks from the right. Incompetance is incompetance and irrationality doesn't one side of the spectrum.

[ms liberty]

29. I agree...

I have a preference (Gore) but in the end, the person who becomes the nominee will be the person who gets my vote.

[nickshepDEM]

34. Hear, mother f$%king, hear!

[lpbk2713]

36. I certainly will.

After over 40 years of voting for the Democratic nominee I certainly don't see any reason to change now.

[LynneSin]

39. No argument from this sometimes argumentive gal

I'll fight like the dickens up to the convention then whoever wins I'm onboard 110% with a damn big smile on my face

[Kingofalldems]

40. I forgot some potential candidates--

Gore, Kucinich, Edwards, Richardson. And any other Democrat except one and I think anyone can guess who it is.