Many good candidates help us

[JackSwift]

provided they keep the intra party rivalries polite and issue focused.


Each candidate can get press, and different ones can be further out there and still get press. Graham is just hammering Bush at the moment because he has access to top secret information. Kerry is looking diplomatic, Dean is getting people engaged, and Kucinich is undercutting that asshole Nader. Sharpton is exciting the base and luring the Republicans into endorsing him, etc.

As long as we all remember to support the eventual nominee and to keep our knives sharpened for Bush, not each other, we will maximize our opportunities.

[robbedvoter]

1. I absolutely agree! They can each make good points

on their chosen areas of expertise and get the word out! It's also harder for bushco to smear them all.

[gratuitous]

2. I agree!

With a lot of different folks hitting this corrupt administration from a lot of different angles, it's difficult for the Bushistas to keep up with it all. Too many targets to zero in on just one.

That being said, I hope that in the next six months or so the candidates begin articulating a Democratic vision for the country that draws a clear contrast with what's happening now. Under Democratic leadership, this country doesn't have $400 billion annual deficits. We don't get hopelessly entangled in foreign quagmires. People get jobs, good jobs at living wages. The media diversify and flourish. The environment prospers. The great wealth of this nation spreads to other countries, giving people outside our borders hope for a better future to pass onto their children.

Contrast that with the dismal record of the U.S. since that train wreck of a person, George W. Bush, stole his way into office. The China spy plane, the submarine colliding with the Japanese fishing boat, the lies about the "trashing" of the White House and Air Force One. And that's just in the first few months! After taking eight months to get the measure of the new regime in town, someone was emboldened enough to knock down the WTC Towers and attack the Pentagon.

When they tried that sort of thing under Bill Clinton, the Justice Department identified the perpetrators, developed the evidence, tried them, and threw them in the slammer. Under W., it's been 23 months, and he can't even produce evidence that it was Al Qaeda behind the September 11 attacks. If you look up "incompetent" in the dictionary, you'd see a picture of Lil George, a teeny tiny man who's in way over his head. What does he offer the country? What would he be doing today if his daddy didn't have millions and millions of dollars? Is inherited money qualification enough to run the country?