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Over the years, I've had the opportunity to meet most of the folks who might run for President, and I've certainly heard the rest of them. And I'm tired of playing the game of "We're just like the Republicans only nicer!" that so many of the centrist Democrats play.
After voting for the Democrat for essentially my entire life, I was going to implement this policy in 2004 and vote Green, but at the urging of a lot of people, I caved-in to pressure and ended-up voted for Kerry. But I'm done with that.
So, in 2008, based on the data in-hand now:
* I'd love to vote for Feingold; he is, by far, the closest Democrat to my views. If he is the candidate, I will support him with my heart and soul and work my tail off for him..
* But I think Al Gore is the strategically correct choice and he's sufficiently close to my views that I have no reservations in enthusiastically, strongly supporting him, *AS I DID IN THE 2000 PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION SEASONS*. I think the poetry of kicking the Republicans' asses with the fellow they cheated out of the office in 2000 is too sweet to pass up, and I think this will resonate strngly with a large swath of the American people. Plus, Gore is an even better candidate than he was in 2000, when I think he really didn't understand the depths to which his enemies would go to politically murder him; he's pretty clear on that topic now ;-).
* But after that, there are no current Democratic contenders worth spit, and if they deliver up to us a Clinton or a Biden or quitter Kerry, we really need to finally send the message that the left wing of the party isn't to be trifled with. So if it turns out to be any of those clowns, I will not be voting for them *NO MATTER WHAT*. And I will not care that "this is the election that makes-or-breaks it all", because I've heard that in every election since forever.
Tesha
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