All Candidates !!Please Stay in the Race till Dem Covention!!

[loftycity]

I believe all voices and all issues should be heard.
Just think of all the new lies we will get from the Bush People in the next 6 months! What event will they cook up next??
That's why we need our guys in there!

Plus, Having our best guys out there gives Bush and crew less time to organize the 300 million dollar assault on our candidate.

And, To all the candidates we have supported you!! and it is now your call to duty to give the American people a voice through the months to the convention.

So, Stay in the Race!!

[Nashyra]

1. The longer they stay in the less

media attention * gets and the more they can attack him especially if they play softball with each other.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Hear, hear!

[Laughing Mirror]

3. This is the best advice you can give

And I'm glad to hear you say it.

Hear hear to all our candidates. Keep up the pressure!

[CatWoman]

4. LoftyCity

I was going to post a thread very similar to this in the General Discussion 2004 forum.

I hope you will transfer this thread to that forum, as that is the correct forum for this discussion.

Don't be surprised if this thread gets locked by the Moderator.

[Gman]

5. I strongly disagree

The also rans have all had their chances and the party faithful will have chosen that they don't want them as the nominee. All the also rans would do now is provide unnecessary noise that takes away from our overall message of getting rid of Bush. If they want to "express theirself" I hope they would just do it in some other forum.

Let's face it. Kucinich, Sharpton and Lieberman will be wasting our time and their own if they stay in after Tuesday. Dean, Edwards and Clark should seriously reconsider whether they want to stay in much longer if they don't do well Tuesday versus Kerry.

I would think the final drop dead date would be Super Tuesday. Unless the race is deadlocked after Super Tuesday, anyone staying in that has only a handful of delegates is wasting our time and money and creating unnecessary noise that keeps us from being laser focused on the nominee and getting rid of Bush.

[camero]

6. I hope at least Kuch stays in the whole way.

Then there is at least one progressive voice out there. The only one I want to drop is Lieberman. Too much of a Bush Lite.

But you're right. The more voices out there, the less coverage of Bush there is. :hi:

[loftycity]

8. They should stay in for Us in the USA and the World

I believe that
John Kerry- knows the inside workings and the dirty deals.
Wesley Clarke- has the scoop on the military and he has a strong base and knows how politicians get us in to war. And he really has had to organize!!
John Edwards- knows the corporations and how to stop them and can talk anyone in to the ground.
Dennis Kucinich- is the voice of our future--A world in that all can live with dignity and tells it like it is.
Al Sharpton- can get to the point fast and speaks in plain honest discourse that we all get and he will not let Bush get by with any B.S.
Joe Lieberman -has the inside on how to watch the Republican base shift.
Howard Dean - (Our Watch)and will give them hell--Howard started getting Democrats back and we cannot let him go..Why in the world would we let this guy ? He is the energy!

When this administration pulls one on the American people it is a big cabal against us. One man cannot do it all---with this cabal coming after them.

[camero]

12. Nice observation

True, we all owe a debt to Dean.

[Hippo_Tron]

18. DAMN STRAIGHT

Each and every one of them contribute.

[Silverhair]

7. Are you going to pay for it?

It takes money for them to stay in as active candidates once all hope of victory is gone. Almost nobody donates to a losing candidate, and it takes money to stay in the race, even marginally. And what is the point? If your numbers are in the low single digits, it is obvious that your own party doesn't want you as their POTUS candidate. Better to accept it gracefully, and bow out.

[Terwilliger]

9. Why?

What issues will be taken through the nomination and into the presidency by a nominee who isn't anywhere near these others in their goals?

[loftycity]

10. You never know what can happen in the next 6 months that is why.

And in that I refering to the Bush Administration. They are going to cook up something you and I know that.
If we believe the old fashioned way of getting things done is working for us this election we are in trouble. Bush has 300 million dollars..one canidate cannot take the fire and trashing that, that kind of money can buy.
We should not provide the barrel, gun and fish to shoot.
Thats all..trying to think outside the old fashioned box here.

[Terwilliger]

11. yes you do

not a damn thing that will bring any of Sharpton or Kucinich's policies into serious consideration

[camero]

13. I have to disagree with this

Perot's candidacy pretty much brought the deficit into serious consideration. Both parties were trying to avoid mention of it at the time. If things like universal health care keep getting talked about it may enter the mainstream.

[Terwilliger]

15. Perot was a self-made multi-millionaire

he could afford to introduce subjects that concerned him

If the poor and disenfranchised don't have a voice, there's nobody who will pay for it.

Right now, Soros paying for MoveOn is the only thing getting any serious coverage in true opposition to Bush.

[wuushew]

14. Can the Joementum last until until the convention?

n/t

[loftycity]

16. Six to One

Till the convention. Old fashioned politics is not going to work.
You have to throw the Bush Administration a curve. That Rover can't catch.

Let the right fight six battles instead of one.. on just one Candidate.

It's going to get mean and so ugly and the media is on their side.

* will come up with another disaster in the nick of time. And the more voices heard people hopefully will eject their representatives and Senators that are with Space Cowboy.

[doc03]

17. Lieberman gotta go

Lieberman agrees with Bush on almost everything. I hope Sharpton stays in to the end, he has the guts to say what none of the others
can.

[Hippo_Tron]

19. Not supporting DK for prez but I don't think he should drop out...

One DK supporteer I know told me that she knows DK won't win the nomination but is supporting him because he leads the way and Howard Dean and John Kerry follow. DK points things out and makes the frontrunners answer the tough questions.

[Moderator]

20. Locking - Wrong Forum