We need to send a clear message: Voting for an unnecessary war is a career limiting move.

[Skwmom]

Any politician who voted for the war SHOULD NOT be President or VP. We need to send a very loud clear message that voting for an unnecessary war will be a career limiting move (as in forget about any oval office plans).

Lincoln Chafee wrote in his book "Against the Tide:

“Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill.” Some leading Democrats “argue that the president duped them into war, but getting duped does not exactly recommend their leadership. Helping a rogue president start an unnecessary war should be a career-ending lapse of judgment.”

http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/chafee_vote_02-08-08_A88UCGM_v13.37f3a0e.html

You would think it would be career-ending, but unfortunately we Americans seldom hold our politicians accountable for their actions.

[patrice]

1. I absolutely agree!

And "absolutely" is not a word I use real often.

I would be VERY confused by someone who is either an IWR capitulator or a neo-Con collaborator on the Obama ticket. That would affect my support behaviors BIG time.

[patrice]

2. P.S. Thom Hartmann is saying get the Dems IN and THEN try to purge the Blue Dogs.

[Donna Zen]

3. Getting the Dems IN

just seems to empower the Blue Dogs. They are stronger now than before the 06 elections and they are calling the shots.

[OnionPatch]

5. They're powerful now for a reason.

At this point, they are the "tie-breakers" between the Repubs and Dems. If we vote even just a few more *progressive* Democrats into office, the *real* Democrats will have a true majority.

[Norrin Radd]

4. kr

[bvar22]

6. K....&...FUCKING....R

!

We are already seeing some of this.
Hillary would be the Democratic nominee had she voted AGAINST Bush's War.