did y'all hear sen. nelson tonight on hardball?

[ellenfl]

he suggested a couple of people more qualified than bolton for the un . . . including john negroponte! seemed odd to me considering negroponte's track record in latin america.

ellen fl

[TheFarseer]

1. which Nelson?

oh sorry, didn't notice this was in the Florida forum

[sam sarrha]

2. isn't he a mass murder..?? was it him that destroyed over400 villages and

thousands of civilians... ?? in Guatemala

I know it was one of Bu$h's recent appointments..

[flordehinojos]

3. senator nelson (of fla) bears the name tag "democrat" but i think his soul

is definitely republican filled.

[Jensen]

4. So true!

[MikeInFlorida]

15. No

Moderates are important to our party. He is not like a Republican. He is a loyal Democrat. Not once has he been disloyal to our party.

Just because you disagree with a few votes like Gonzalez doesn't make him a Republican. If you were to actually look at the entire voting record, you'd see your characterization was false.

He deserves your full support.

[Lowell]

5. Better than the alternative

Nelson is moderate, but far better than what we would have with Katherine Harris.

[recoveringrepublican]

8. Moderate? On what issues? He's no different than Harris IMO nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. Abortion

He is pro-choice.

[ihaveaquestion]

11. Which is just about the only reason he's not a republican.

They probably won't take him unless he switches to pro-birth.

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. Don't forget his opposition to drilling in ANWAR

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. I'm sure that you are aware that he voted against cloture for Bolton

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. He voted against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

[ihaveaquestion]

12. I heard a part of Harris' speach on NPR this morning.

She called Nelson a (horror of horrors) librul! Not only that, according to some radical RW source she quoted, he's one of the most librul Senators! Then she called herself a "Progressive Conservative"! This is the scariest thing to me - that they are trying to co-opt the word "progressive." It must be that it resonates in their focus groups or something. We can't let them take it from us!

Progressives Unite!

Come to think of it, we should really have a Progressive Party all our own - separate from the Democrats. Let the Dems court our support for a change!

[democratic veteran]

6. Gets Negroponte out

of the intelligence arena where he's doing more damage

[DawnneOBTS]

7. Bill Nelson should have just come out...

and said it like it was. "Anyone would have been better than Bolton. Ronald Mc Donald included."