Do you want our nominee to be bipartisan or to be partisan?

[ruggerson]

Poll question: Do you want our nominee to be bipartisan or to be partisan?

Do you want a bipartisan President who wants to work with and have unity with the Republicans or do you want a partisan President who will push our agenda, and fight the Republicans fiercely at every turn?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Murderously partisan. Two enter, one leaves.

[NorthCarolina]

10. Too Funny

But I totally agree with you..

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Bipartisan...provided

that the 2 parties in question are the Dems & the Greens.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Doesn't really matter either way. The neocon-controlled GOPers

will continue to block Dems as a minority no matter what. And we've got enough Liebermans and Nelsons and Feinsteins to put the brakes on any progress that IS made.

[mtnsnake]

4. I want a Pres who will get Democratic policies passed & ram it down the country's throat

I do not want someone sucking up to Republicans just for the purpose of "finding common ground" with them, like what Obama said he wants to do this morning on one of the Sunday talk shows.

AFAIC, we no longer have ANY common ground with those Republican assholes. No more letting them push us around. From now on, we need to do the pushing.

[mitchtv]

6. your post goes to the heart

of why I don't trust Obama. Seems too eager to compromise.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Bipartisan: concede the entire political agenda to the right.

We've seen how bipartisan works. We compromise, they don't. The end result is that the right wins every battle and the political compass moves ever rightward. Bipartisan is simply pre-conceding defeat. When they start losing a few battles, when things start turning around, after about 20 or so years of undoing the crap they have done to this nation since 1980, perhaps we could consider a little bipartisanship. Right now bipartisanship is us reaching out to meet fascism halfway.

[MethuenProgressive]

7. Partisan. I want someone who'll beat the GOP into the ground and dance on their grave.

But I also want a new $60K Stanley picnic boat. But my used $3000 Boston Whaler keeps me afloat.

[last1standing]

8. Six votes for bipartisan.....Interesting.

I could probably name a few off the top of my head but that would be against rules. In any case there are at least six (and probably many, many more) here who think that a Democratic administration should tack even further to the right even though we've had countless years now of either doing just that (Clinton) or giving up the whole ball of wax (reagan, bushx2). Personally, I think its time to move back to the real center - the one that respects and cares for ALL of the people in this country, not just the extremely wealthy.

Does anyone else remember when being a moderate meant working for everyone, not just a tiny subset of the population?

Edited to add:

That didn't take long. Two more votes for "bipartisan" just in the time it took me to type up this post. Scary, huh?

[liberal N proud]

9. The Democratic President needs to be partisan but cross line at times

The new President needs to take no prisoners in cleaning up the mess left by the republicon regime. Work with the President or get out of the way on anything dealing with correcting the situation bu$h created.
But he/she needs to work with members of the opposition party to get new measures through. They can speak but should have no say. They have earned that position

[yourout]

11. As I like to say....reaching across the isle will only work if the guy on the other side won't hack.

your arm off.

So stop reaching.

[Warren Stupidity]

12. Our side is armless and has lost both legs reaching across the isle.

But they are struggling manfully to reach out with that last appendage.

[pleah]

13. I just want my Pres. to do the right thing. If that means

they have to be partisan to get it done, so be it.