If Obama was to be an one-term President - who would you want in the 2012 primary?

[Hawkeye-X]

Poll question: If Obama was to be an one-term President - who would you want in the 2012 primary?

If Obama fails to do his job, he promised if the health care reform bombs he'd stake his entire Presidency to it (and it's looking like it's going to be a bomb)

Who would you want in the primary?

I'm balancing both spectrums of left and right of the left.

Hawkeye-X

[jgraz]

1. Anyone who'd want those corporatists you list should be fine with Obama.

I'd have used the space for Grayson, Weiner and Franken (the three wise men).

[Cant trust em]

5. If they're all corporatists, why do you have Dean as your icon? nt

[jgraz]

15. Never said they were all corporatists.

[begin_within]

19. I don't see Kucinich as a corporatist

[jgraz]

22. Sorry, I wasn't clear. Not ALL of them are corporatists, and certainly not DK

But Bayh, Clinton and Douche-who-must-not-be-named? Yeah.


PS: Why aren't you using your Dean avatar? ;)

[dysfunctional press]

2. grayson/feingold 2012.

or...

feingold/grayson 2012.

let them decide the order and get back to us.

[jgraz]

4. OH, damn. He left off Feingold?

Polling FAIL.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Corrected it.

:evilgrin:

Took out Baucus and replaced with Feingold.

[jgraz]

8. You could also replace Evan Bayh

Try 'A Lump of Dried Snot'. That should get about as many votes. ;)

[captnearl]

13. 2012 elections

Those would be fine as long as Feingold no's which country he represents.

[dysfunctional press]

24. i'd just like to see him 'no' the current senate bill.

:evilgrin:

[dionysus]

27. why, because he's a joo?

:eyes:

[jgraz]

3. Oh... and Bernie Sanders wouldn't need a primary since he's not a Democrat.

I'd LOVE to see Bernie run -- especially if the Teabaggers run their own candidate.

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Now that could be an interesting 4 way race

John Anderson made a dent in the 1980 numbers, and Perot was even leading the 1992 race for a while (before he dropped out and then back in. But that was all before the complete corruption of the election process from the whore media to the corporate financing to the electro-fraud machines.

Public anger across the political spectrum could fuel third and fourth party challenges, but would it be enough to overcome the rigged corporate game?

For the record though, I'd go with Howard Dean, and put Bernie in as Senate Majority Leader.

[jgraz]

14. Except Bernie can't be Senate Majority Leader

Still not a Democrat.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. There's a silver lining in that cloud though

If Bernie can't be majority leader, neither can Lieberdouche. And you know the DLC wishes they could put his pathetic ass in there. ;)

OK then.... Russ Feingold as Senate Majority Leader. Or Barbara Boxer.

[jgraz]

21. Wait... we CAN have Bernie Sanders as Majority Leader

We just need to elect 50 more Socialists. :D

I'm in!

[KamaAina]

7. Who voted for Evan Bayh??!!

:wtf:

[jgraz]

9. No shit. I wouldn't trust that moron to clean my toilet.

[JVS]

10. Voted for Dean, but I was tempted to vote for Bayh. After all, if we have corporatism...

then I'd rather it be represented by a dislikable shit head like Bayh than a person who appeals to people like Obama does.

[VMI Dem]

12. What is the difference between Obama, Clinton, Bayh and Lieberman?

[Birthmark]

16. Hard to say

I like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, and Russ Feingold fine. My favorites would be Feingold or Sanders.

The DLC-types can go right to hell. I'm through with them.

[SIMPLYB1980]

18. No love for DK?

:spank:

[racaulk]

20. I supported Dean in 2004. I would gladly support him again in the future, 2012 or otherwise. n/t

[DonkeyHoTay]

40. :-)

[LastNaturalist]

23. Chuck Hagel.

Alright now comes the barrage...

[jgraz]

25. Alan Keyes!

:eyes:

[LastNaturalist]

30. Because they're the same person!

:eyes:

[jgraz]

36. They might as well be.

Advocating for either one should put you outside of DU's "big tent".

[Sebastian Doyle]

26. He could actually win

...since his company ES&S just bought Diebold and now controls the majority of the electro-fraud machines.

No, he wouldn't actually get the most votes. But that didn't stop him in Nebraska.

[LastNaturalist]

31. Wow, you need to come back to Planet Earth.

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. I'm on Planet Earth

You're on planet DLC NeverNeverland where up is down, war is peace, corporatism is democracy, and Chuck Hagel is an "honest man".

[TiberiusGracchus]

28. Howard Dean/Jim Webb 2012

[EndElectoral]

29. How the hell could anyone vote for Lieberman?

[TK421]

37. I think that was done as a joke n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

32. If it came to that I would *want* Dean but vote for Hillary

If Obama is deposed as the nominee in 2012 or stepped down it would be a "lost year" where the pugs were very likely to retake the WH.

In such an environment I doubt Dean could win. We are talking about a situation where a Dem holding the WH would be a serious long-shot.

I love Howard Dean, but would rather, as a practical matter, that it were Hillary.

Essentially Dean for President, Clinton for Nominee.

This is all highly hypothetical, of course.

[Sebastian Doyle]

34. How would Hillary be an improvement?

I don't see where she would do anything better than what we have now. In fact, this is actually what I would have expected from a Clinton II administration.

[Vidar]

35. Dean, Kucinich or Feingold. Dean is probably the most electable. I will not vote for Obama again.

[WI_DEM]

38. Obama is going to run again no matter what.

[Hippo_Tron]

39. It's a tough call between Estes Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson

Although apparently Kefauver is big on censoring comic books, so I'm gonna go with Stevenson. This Kennedy guy might make a good VP candidate.

[FLAprogressive]

41. I love DK/Sanders/Feingold but realistically Dean would be the best choice.

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[Prophet 451]

43. Dean or Kucinich

I'd prefer DK but voted for Dean on the grounds that he's vaguely electable.

[UTUSN]

44. Oh. You mean "one term" based on the Dem Party denying a sitting Dem president a nomination.

I thought "one term" meant losing to the Rethug.