What are you prepared to do for John Kerry if he is the nominee.

[Renew Deal]

Poll question: What are you prepared to do for John Kerry if he is the nominee.

Note: We need every democrat in this country that can watch the polls, to do it.

Note: If you pick 1-6, it is assumed you will vote for him also.

[Killarney]

1. I would vote for him, donate $, and volunteer.

As I will for whoever our candidate is.

What is poll watching???

[Renew Deal]

5. Poll watching

I have poll watched at least three elections. It's kinda cool, but it can be tough if there are problems. Basically, you go to your polling location and make sure everything is legal. Make sure:

There is no cheating.
No shenanigans
You help people get to vote in your area (especially if it's heavy dem.)

It's cool stuff. You get a poll watchers certificate from a campaign. Also, if you are a lawyer, you are twice as valuable. Lawyers can flex some muscle on the system if there are problems.

[meti57b]

31. exactly the same for me ....

vote for him, donate and volunteer, as I would for whomever our nominee is.

[MaineDem]

2. All of the above for our candidate

No matter who it turns out to be!

[Ivote]

7. None of the above

I cant vote for anyone that voted for the war. They all let bush sucker them. We need someone that will really get this country back on track.
I still am a Clark supporter and think that he has the best credentials.

[judge_smales]

8. So if Kerry gets the nomination you'll just roll over and give

Bu$h another four years?

[mhr]

23. If The Sheeple Elect Spineless Leaders, Then The Sheeple Get

what they deserve.

Kerry showed no spine on Iraq. That is a fact.

No mincing of words can change that.

If he has so little spine on this issue, how can anyone trust that he will have spine on other important issues.

Consequently, I am not prepared to support him.

I am prepared to support candidates that have spine and stand up for what is right and just.

Anything less is unacceptable.

[judge_smales]

33. So then the answer is yes-

You'd take Bush over Kerry.

Sure you're on the right board?

[Renew Deal]

9. I'm still a Clark supporter too.

And I am going to fight for him to the end but... JK or even a dirty sock is better than Bush*

[judge_smales]

3. So who would pick "None of the above"?

A Freeper, I guess.

Or was that really one of us?

[Renew Deal]

6. I put it up there to be fair

But it's bullshit.

[Tesha]

11. Probably people who believe that...

So who would pick "None of the above"?

Probably people who believe that...

...their candidate was unfairly sleazed by Kerry, his employees,
    or his supporters.

...Kerry is untrustworthy based on his past behavior.

...their positions were deliberately disregarded time and time
    again by the party that Kerry claims fealty to.

...real change in the Democratic party is more important than winning
    one brief Presidency while continuing to lose every other election.

Probably.

Tesha

[judge_smales]

14. OK. But

can the country really take 4 more years of Bush? Will anything be left to be president of?

[Tesha]

36. No matter how many of us were to sign this loyalty oath, ...

No matter how many of us were to sign this loyalty oath,
the country may still face 4 more years of THIS Bush,
followed by...

Tesha

[EXE619K]

4. I will vote for him.

But, I hope that he won't mind me "crying in his tea cup" for making foolish decisions that killed many-o-good Americans in the sand dunes for no good reason.

Does he deserve more than my vote?

Probably not.

But, that's just my opinion.

[liberalnurse]

10. Rove and *bush are going to clean Kerry's clock.

Kerry has deep secrets and ladies in waiting to tell tales that make Clinton look like Arnold Horshack. We are being set-up. Thats my take on this.....just an opinion.

I'll keep my money, time and hope for another 4 years.

Oh, I will not vote for him either, not even in the GE.

I resist being played the fool. *bush does that to the republican voter.....

[judge_smales]

12. So what do you know that we don't?

Might be a good time to clue the rest of us so we know how to prepare.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Who Cares If Kerry Used To Be A Playa?

He won't be in the first in the White House...


Tales of infidelity will be met with a big yawn...


The only story which might get some traction is his behavior in Viet Nam Veterans Against The War...

We'll see...

[MaineDem]

15. Infidelity?

You have proof, I assume?

And what is a "Playa"?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. The Other Poster Implied Kerry's A Playa...

I could care less....

A playa is a mac daddy...

A mac daddy is a man with alot of girlfriends....

[liberalnurse]

28. Here is what I read......

I don't think we need to go back down this path again, really.


http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml


<snip>

An unsettled private life

Kerry's personal life, meanwhile, was becoming increasingly tumultuous. He had separated from his first wife, Julia Thorne, in 1982, and the divorce became final in 1988. For much of their marriage, Julia, who came from a wealthy Long Island family, had provided significant financial contributions. The divorce left Kerry strapped for cash and looking for ways to meet child-support payments, campaign debts, and tuition costs.

He took out a $473,000 loan to purchase a home in Washington, thinking his daughters would be staying with him for periods of time. It was "a huge mistake," he says, as he found himself returning to Boston most weekends to maintain his ties to his children and the state. He sold the D.C. home and bought a Boston condo but "lost his shirt" when he sold it a few years later, as he told the Globe in 1996. "He was broke," Blum says.

To make ends meet, Kerry collected speaking fees, averaging about $1,400 apiece and $26,000 a year total during his first five years in the Senate. Most of the honoraria were from think tanks and schools; some were paid by trade associations such as the Massachusetts Bankers Association or corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Chevron, which had legislative interests before Congress.

Kerry pocketed another $21,000 in a low-risk real estate deal in 1986, arranged by his campaign treasurer, developer Wesley Finch. In a business brochure the next year, Finch boasted about his relationship with Kerry, stating he "works closely with the senator and his colleagues on tax and economic issues that come to the floor of the United States Senate."

Finch had cut in his friends, Kerry and his then-Senate aide, Ronald Rosenblith, on an investment in condominium units in Salem and Clinton. One of the units was already under a purchase-and-sales agreement by the time Finch brought in Kerry and Rosenblith as partners, the Globe reported in 1996, although all three said Finch never informed them of that. The Globe calculated their profit at 31 percent in about six months.

Kerry has long maintained he never used his influence on Finch's behalf, but he did acknowledge he was stung by the press reports on the deal and soured on investments after that. "I thought it was legitimate," Kerry said of the deal. But "I found that the inquiries made me profoundly uncomfortable, and I never invested again in the 11 years after that . . . I have never since invested one penny in anything" as exotic.

Kerry acknowledges money "was tight" for him in those days. "I was spending all I had," he says. Regarding honoraria, which Congress banned in 1991, Kerry says: "I did not take honoraria from anyone who had anything in front of my committee."

Kerry also signed on as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the fund-raising arm for Senate Democrats, for the 1987-1988 cycle. This would help him tap the network of national Democratic donors.

Kerry's current wife, Teresa Heinz, calls the late 1980s his "gypsy period." For months at a time he had no fixed address and crashed instead with his daughters when Julia was away or with Julia's brother David.

Sometimes, he stayed with a girlfriend who had been his former law partner, Roanne Sragow, now a district court judge in Massachusetts. (She declined to be interviewed.) Or he stayed with a Vietnam buddy or on a per diem basis in condos owned by wealthy contributors: developers Finch and Edward W. Callan, and lobbyist and campaign fund-raiser Robert Farmer. Eventually, he rented a one-room apartment in Washington and an apartment in Boston.

During this period, Kerry was linked romantically with several Hollywood starlets, including Morgan Fairchild, and his dating life became fodder for gossip columnists in Boston and Washington. Kerry declined to discuss this period of his social life, other than to make this reference to the 2000 presidential campaign, in which then-candidate George W. Bush confessed only to unnamed youthful indiscretions.


Here is another real juicy read......

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11939

[Renew Deal]

16. So you will not vote for him for something he might have done

that you have made up? Yeah, OK

[Ripley]

25. In fairness to the nurse, I recall Kerry supporters braggin on that

issue a few months ago when people said he was ugly. They said back in the day he slept with all kinds of pretty Barbies, I forget which celeb they used...maybe Vanna White or that 3's Company Blonde?

Anyway, if Kerry gets the nom, I'll vote for him. But I must say that anyone who thought Bush would eat up Dean and doesn't see that Kerry will get eaten up even more by the meatgrinder (Kennedy contact, Liberal Mass (GAY MARRIAGE, not civil union), etc. because he IS more liberal than Dean)...you will be severely shocked.

But mainly I disagree with Kerry as an opponent because I can see him pulling a Gore and agreeing with Smirky in the debates when we clearly need a great contrast to him, not nicey-poo. People will once again see no serious differences and stay home. Sorry, that's how I feel.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. You Mean The Kerry Who Took Apart Bill Weld In Six Televised Debates

will play nicepoo with Bush...


I don't think so...


And as far as Gore his debate performance can be criticized on a lot of levels but not for agreeing with Chimpy....

[liberalnurse]

32. Kerry is out for Kerry.....

Yea, everyone always covers their back, human nature but he never really came up to the plate. I view the office of President of the United States as one designed for the ultimate leader. Kerry never measures up. His pattern of looking for the softer, easy way out is unelectable.

I do not believe him.

[teevee99]

17. no money, I've been paying taxes my whole life

which has put food on his table. no money for career politicians ever. that's my motto


term limits are a good thing. strom thurmond proved that.

[liberalnurse]

35. I have started to revist the term limit issue myself.

I was not for them for the longest time....my father was and we debated often. I like mature, experienced leadership in our politics ....Now, I see the seeds of corruption. I think dad was on to something.

[lovedems]

18. I will support whoever wins the nomination.

Some I could support with a little more enthusiasm than others, but I will fervently support our nominee.

[eyesroll]

19. I will probably be doing some combination of the above

I will be doing GOTV on election day, regardless of who the nominee is, so I probably won't be able to poll-watch also.

[Renew Deal]

20. So far 18% say none of the above.

That's disgusting. :puke:

[Zech Marquis]

22. for the VA primary

I will volunteer my time for his campaign here :bounce:

[krkaufman]

24. vote only

He'll get my vote, but that's it. He's lost my respect, and I wouldn't be able to campaign for him.

[Bad Thoughts]

34. Agree

He loses more of my respect every day. I'll just pull the lever.

[MaineDem]

26. Remember, DU is not an accurate representation of the population

I believe most Democrats, and a lot of others, will support the candidate regardless of who it is. At least vote for him.

[Uzybone]

30. And thank goodness for that

n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. I'll do what I have been doing

which is telling my family and friends to vote for whichever Dem takes the nod.

I'll also be writing to Sen. Kerry to let him know how I feel about election reform and that I would really like to see him address the issue once he is in office.