Poll: No Democrat can win who voices even the slightest opposition...

[ulysses]

Poll question: Poll: No Democrat can win who voices even the slightest opposition...

to even the most harebrained, but popular, course proposed by George W. Bush.

[jpgray]

1. People *like* politicians who buck what's popular

If it seems like it's genuine and not affected. Of course, it never is genuine, but it's the seeming that's the key.

[mmonk]

2. Time will tell

I've never seen America this jingoistic and dumbed down.

[Armstead]

3. I voted "True".....

just to be a pain in the ass.

[ulysses]

4. fucking slacker

skewing my data! :D

[whathappened]

5. we are the diff then the gop

why in the world would we think this small brained called jr. had anything to offer the poor and middle class , i for one havent seen anything come from his mouth i agreed on

[FloridaPat]

6. It sure has worked well for the republicans over the last 20years.

That's all they've done is slander and complain. They spent 12 years covering up everything Reagan and Bush did, then spent 8 years and $70 million finding anything on Clinton, and now here we are again covering up everything.

I think the Democrats doing nothing is making people stay home. Why bother to go out and vote for a coward.

[grytpype]

7. Don't take advice from Republicans!

This is my new sig.

Don't listen to what the Republicans say about our candidates.

They will lie about anyone we put up.

The important thing is, how will the candidate turn the tables on the Republicans? I'll bet you anything Dean and maybe Clark have detailed plans for that inevitability.

[economic justice]

8. False!!

Bush can be beat if we nominate a candidate that can articulate differences - period. If we run on anger and a campaign to pander to the cultural left: we lose. I wish more on DU would understand that as the 2004 election is crucial and Bush MUST GO.

[ulysses]

9. ok, so how

is an "angry" candidate who "panders to the cultural left" necessarily not one who can articulate differences?

btw, I don't mean for this to be a Dean thread, per se.

[economic justice]

11. I understand

and I never mentioned Howard Dean.

on edit: I forgot to answer the last part. I should have said, "economic differences," as that's where I think we win.

[jcv1]

10. opposition to unilateralism?

9 months is a loooong time, whether you're expecting a baby or an election. Candidates should not change course because of every event the occurs in Iraq... the reasons to oppose the "method" of invading are still as strong as they were before the latest news and that will be the message to take to the public every chance we get. The candidates who are now so incredulous over Dean's simple comments that the capture doesn't make America safer have completely lost any of my support if they end up with the nomination. I'll write in Nader or some other candidate because of this; politicians who spend so much time in Washington completely lose touch with reality and develop a "negative reactionary" method of lawmaking rather than seeing the whole picture and learn how to be leaders. The D.C. 6 don't have a clue and are showing why the D'crat party has lost its way over the last couple decades. Now is the time for change.

[newyawker99]

14. Hi jcv1!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[littlejoe]

12. Don't be so damned hasty. It's only been 3 days.

[arewethereyet]

13. yes its true but for a different reason

if all we can do is be against whatever he's selling we probably deserve to lose.

We have to have our own vision and a guy that can sell it.

Clinton and Carter did this, see where it got them ?

[sandnsea]

15. Who isn't opposing Bush?

This is just ridiculous. I don't think even Lieberman is supporting Bush's unilateral pre-emptive warmongering. I don't know what purpose it serves to spread nonsense like this.

[buddhamama]

16. true

i mean false
no, no, maybe.

oh i don't know. what are Bush's poll numbers today, what country are we invading next and; being a leftist-whatever what color triangle would i have to wear? </sarcasm>