Reply #62: Exactamundo! [View All]

[Egnever]

I know Deans record well. At no point in time did i ever believe he was a "liberal".

He is my candidate because he is willing to call a spade a spade regardless of political ideology.

I know he went against the liberal constituency in his state many times throughout his career as Governor and rather than being disappointed in it I am pleased by it. The far left is wring as often as is the far right. A true leader examines a situation and makes a decision on what he believes is the right thing to do. This is what I see in Dean. I never loved him because he was a lefty I loved him because he was willing to stand up and do what he thought was right and willing to fight for it.

Despite the many posts here crying out about how much of a corporatist or whatever the favored label of the day is for him. I like the end result of his leadership in Vermont. Balanced budgets year after year at the same time that health care was provided for all children, school funding was distributed evenly to change the disparity of inner city and urban schools, Child abuse down 46 %!, Child sexual abuse down 70 %!!!!, and a ranking in the top 6 in the nation on both environmental issues and economic issues.

No my love of Dean has absolutely nothing to do with any label anyone wants to put on him it has to do with the results he provided to Vermont and his willingness to stand up to the powers that be in Washington !

Will I vote green in the GE?

Perhaps it would depend on the candidate put forward. As it looks now we are being force fed Kerry and he does nothing to inspire me to want him to be my president other than he is not bush.

Bush is god awful and I do want him out but at what cost I don't know.

If he is defeated in November by Kerry it ensures the problems that exist in the democratic party at the moment remain for another four years and brings a choice in 4 more years again of the least horrible of the D or R. I absolutely will not vote for Kerry again in 08 unless my impression of him turns out to be completely wrong. We will see but I doubt it.

So what will we have won if I help Kerry get into office? A short respite from the far right followed by a return to power by them in four years with someone perhaps not so glaringly horrible that will be able to hold on for much longer than bush.

It is a tough choice for me allow the cancer to remain by voting for Kerry and bite the bullet and take the four years of pain ensured by a bush win to be followed by a total shake up of what I see at this time as a totally complicit and corrupt democratic party.

Its a tough choice for me i have yet to decide which way I will go.