If there is a Paul Wellstone out there, please come forward!!!!!

[styersc]

It seems that we still have an opening for a progressive reformer in the White House. Now more then ever!!

[Political Tiger]

1. Paul Wellstone who voted for DOMA? Oh the pain! n/t

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Ouch! That left a mark. (nt)

[redqueen]

5. Patriot Act, too. (nt)

[cauliflower]

10. ROFL!!!

[nxylas]

2. After what happened to the actual Paul Wellstone, why would they?

Wasn't the whole point of his "accident" to discourage others from following in his footsteps?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. You find a Wellstone that can actually win the General Election and I'll be there with you.

Until then, I'll stay very happy that we have Obama, thankyouverymuch.

[styersc]

8. I agree with your electability meme.

It seems that we now have the choice between authentic and electable. I just wish the electable would stop claiming to be authentic.

[w4rma]

6. The man who won Wellstone's seat is being stalled from taking the seat by the GOP. (nt)

[Peacetrain]

7. I met Paul Wellstone in Worthington Minnesota when he was first running

for the Senate at Turkey Days..I am from Iowa,but just happened to be up there for the festival. Paul was an awesome human being, and progressive reformer in many ways but not all. He was a decent person, but you might be surprised if you took a closer look at the record.

[styersc]

11. Wellstone was a sincere progressive with enough experience

to be pragmatic. He (as liberals often have to) did ease into issues he knew had to be changed slowly. But never did he cave to the opposition for expediency or throw an allie to the wolves to score points!!

[onenote]

12. if it wasn't a vote cast for expidiency, what was Wellstone's vote for DOMA

Look, I don't blame him for it or hold it against him. But I'm not going to pretend it wasn't what it was: a vote cast two months before election day in 1996, in a race in which Wellstone won easily because of a third party candidate, but in which Wellstone barely got 50 percent of the vote.

[MarjorieG]

9. We'd need fewer ConservaDems to make a difference. Obama wants the best results he can get.

[invictus]

13. Maybe Al Franken can be the reformer we need, if he ever gets seated.

nt