Howard Dean does not drink alcohol!

[a_random_joel]

That's it, he's off my list.

JK, although it does strike me as kind of peculiar...

Better than a dry drunk anyways.

[buckfush2]

1. I don't drink any more either

Trouble is I don't drink any less

nyuk nyuk

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. why better than a dry drunk? /nt

.

[bahrbearian]

13. Dry drunks have pent up emotions, agression,

low self esteem, agitation, the need for guideance.

[CO Liberal]

3. I Don't Drink Alcohol, Either

It can react with the painkillers I take for my back. Does that make me any less of a person???

[a_random_joel]

6. It was a joke...

I was riffing off all of the "X candidate sucks" threads.

I don't drink "much" anymore either. Doesn't really do for me in my 30s what it did for me in my 20s.

[ozymandius]

4. Well, what about alternatives?

What if he were to start his day with a Cannabis Cooler?

[Pastiche423]

17. Is there such a thing as a Cannabis Cooler?

Where can I get one? No, stratch that, where can I get a lot?

[demnan]

5. A lot of Doctors are prone to abuse substances

at least that has been my experience. I don't know if it's the stress of the job or the proximity of medicines but I've known a few really good ones that left this world to early because of the combination of alcohol and drugs. Maybe Dean realized early on he had a problem with it. Or maybe, being a Doctor he doesn't want to pickle his liver.

Clinton wasn't a drinker either, mostly because his step-father was a mean abusive drunk.

[a_random_joel]

7. So are a lot of unelected Presidents.

eom.

[Larkspur]

8. Dean was a drinker until he got married

He changed because he didn't like how he acted when drunk and he loved his wife.

Good reasons for avoiding the temptation of alcohol.

[BiggJawn]

9. I'm pretty dry, too.

Doesn't react well with all my meds, gives me a horrible headache the next day, and is a crappy way to get what few Carbohydrates I'm allowed, anyway...
I have 2 bottles of booze, both of them more than a year old, barely touched.

I'd rather have Dean than a guy who has to hide at his "ranch" for a month every year because he can't stand being sober anymore.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

10. his son sure does

:)

[MurrayDelph]

11. Some of us are allergic

For some people that allergy makes them break out in assholiness.

For me, it is the lack of an amino acid to metabolize the stuff; so it has the same effect as drinking acetone.

It was a weird situation having to explain to the clueless who wanted me to find a "safe" booze: Here, try this one; if it doesn't make you sicker than a dog, we have a winner!

Or the company picnic (for a now-defunct major defense contractor), where the manager was hitting me with "How can you be having fun without a beer?"

As far as other pharmaceuticals, I just figure that anything that deadens the brain is more likely to make me shave my beard, put on a 3-piece suit, and vote Republican. It ain't worth it.

MurrayDelph

[JackDragna]

12. No vote for me.

I don't trust people that don't drink. :)

[Skittles]

14. EVERYONE HAS A VICE

it's just that when a person does not drink or smoke, you are left to wonder just exactly what that vice might be. :O

[Coffee Coyote]

15. as Molly Ivins says

"I am not sure I trust a man who doesn't like to drink." :-)

[Nikia]

16. I don't have alcohol much

One of my medications amplifies its effects so I am uncomfortably drunk after one drink. Since I've started smoking pot, I've found that to be a better intoxicant for me anyways as I get kind of mean when I'm drunk. My dad, who played in a rock band from is late teens to early thirties, claims he has never been drunk or high. I sometimes wonder if he is really telling the truth or he just thought that would encourage my sister and I to stay sober.

[TheBigGuy]

18. well..Kucinich is a vegetarian..

...and I like to both booze it up and chow down on some good burgers and steaks....

....so, not sure about my political choices.

There just are NOT that many lassiez bon temps roulet politicians out there, are there?

[graywarrior]

19. I end up in Hell's Angel bars

so I quit drinking.