Who Best Represents The Democratic Party - In Your View - Today?

[ThomWV]

I am not asking who you support for President. I think each of us had our own vision of what the Democratic Party is and what it means to the people of this nation. We may not all agree on each element of what it is to be a Democrat but we are close enough to each other on most things.

That said which of the people below seem to you to best represent the Party? If you don't see your person please chime in and let me know who you prefer.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Obama is the future of the party.

[Why Syzygy]

2. Howard Dean?

If it isn't about the presidency, he gets my vote.

[napi21]

10. Dean gets MY VOTE too! HE is the only rational person I've heard

who isn't afraid to tell it like it is! Maybe that's why he isn't President today, but I like his style! He knows you don't shun southern veoters just because you think they're in a red state. He knows a candidate should tell the damn TRUTH to gain support of the people.

I know he committed not to run for Prez and I respoce that. I only wish there was a HD clone!

[OHdem10]

12. Let me put in a plug for Senator B Dorgan.

When the crunch is on, you can depend on him to be on the side
of the people.

Trade Policy, Immigration (his commnsense approach is impressive)

[OzarkDem]

15. Yes, Dean also

though he seems to have been muzzled lately.

[Hatalles]

29. Yes, I'd have gone w/ Dean if he were an option.

[Phredicles]

3. HClinton - emblematic of this bunch of triangulating sellout chickenshits.

[tom_paine]

4. Paul Wellstone, which is why he was murdered almost two years to the day

that Carnahan was murdered.

They made sure to get Wellstone's wife so she couldn't run as Mrs. Carnahan did, thus delayign the Bushevik takeover of Amerika for a little while.

[Octafish]

23. What Tom said. NT

[Venus Dog]

24. Totally agree - that's why he was murdered as they all have been

And Howard Dean. These two have, for me, represented the Democratic Party that I truly believe in. But from the list, it would most definitely have to be President-in-Exile Al Gore. Ever since 1992 when I picked up my first copy of "Earth in the Balance", I have always believed him to be a visionary which our country and the world desperately needed to survive. I now see him as a bridge to help guide us from the old world to the new.

[BringEmOn]

5. Dennis Kucinich

[leftchick]

26. yes why is Dennis not up there?

:crazy:

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Agreed, That is what the party _should be_ but slap any old DLC name up there for

who it actually is. :(

[movonne]

6. What happened to Edwards???

[Donnachaidh]

7. you forgot NONE of the above.

If you're not going to include all the candidates, you can at least include a NOTA for people who don't like the list. :shrug:

[draft_mario_cuomo]

8. How can you include Richardson and not Edwards?

[ThomWV]

16. No slight intended. I just wrote down names till I ran out of space.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

18. No problem. I was just wondering about that

BTW, I would have voted for the Goracle even if Edwards was included in the poll.

[Deja Q]

9. Gotta say Obama.

I don't know about many of the candidates; but I've yet to find hypocrisy on Obama's part. No doubt I will, but listening to the man - he sounds upfront and honest. But, yeah, the "none of the above" is apropos right now given nobody has weeded out all but the 3 most likely candidates.

And therefore a bad choice of candidate because politics is, like acting, selling a lie. Or so we get told by the media often enough.

[Individualist]

11. Kucinich

[CTD]

13. TODAY'S Dem party? Easy. Benedict Arnold.

What a bunch of f*cking traitors, caving in to Bush on Iraq.


The best and most honorable of the names posted in this poll is Al Gore. But after today, I wouldn't be surprised if he quits calling himself a Dem.

[leftofthedial]

14. Dennis Kucinich

Russ Feingold

[On the Road]

17. I Would Suggest Howard Dean

that is more or less his job these days.

[NoPasaran]

19. I do

[Telly Savalas]

20. My state senator Jolie Justus represents the party better than any of them.

[Jed Dilligan]

21. Randy Rhodes?

Ozzy's late, great guitarist?

I think you mean Randi Rhodes.

[mmonk]

22. Depends on what you mean by represents.

I'm not sure presently what our party represents itself. Now if you mean represents what I think has been our party in my eyes, that's a different question. If I'm choosing my views on who should from your list, I'll go with Gore or Richardson. Represents the way I think, Randi.

[illinoisprogressive]

25. I would say Obama, Gore and Dean. Never, ever Hillary who, if nominated I will leave the party.

I am sick of the DLC influence and the spinelessness and corporate boot licking.
Hillary represents everything wrong with the party. She will crush Dean and the progressive movement if nominated.
the DLC will rise again. the war will continue.
I am sick of the party always electing the most corporate and establishment candidate. the one closest to the republicans. I am sick of us always choosing the one we don't like and expect other to come to our side and vote for the dud.
No, I will leave, become independent and be done with politics.

[LBJDemocrat]

27. Carter - hands down

Although his work towards deregulating American industries isn't a very bright spot, Carter is both the oldest Democratic former president and the only Democratic former president who actually stands for something and has the guts to get his name dragged through the mud for it. He should be given a great amount of respect.

[Why Syzygy]

28. I'm proud of Carter too. n/t

[FourScore]

30. Gore and Feingold. n/t

[underseasurveyor]

31. ** Dennis Kucinich**

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[LWolf]

32. Kucinich. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

33. You're missing Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman and all of the Black Caucus. eom

[AnneD]

35. Where is Edwards.......

just wandering.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

36. A lot of the above - plus Conyers, Waxman, it's hard to pick just one....

n/t