Reply #29: Um, yes, we very much can-- supporting Gore, Clark, Boxer

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Remember that going into 2004, it was Joe Lieberman who had all the momentum and money and popularity according to the polls. And he tanked faster than a stone in a pond when his support for the Iraq War became so public and so strongly associated with him.

The current state of affairs-- especially over three years prior to the election-- means laughably little to the election itself. You seem to forget that it's precisely in fora like DU that the most active members of the party, who serve as delegates and are *most involved in the fundraising*, debate and discuss. The views here definitely do have a very strong bearing on the nomination process at large. And DU is hardly overly left-wing or "outside the Dem mainstream"-- indeed, the candidates that have gotten the most support here (especially Al Gore and Wesley Clark) are very much mainstream candidates with broad support.

Hillary already has been losing the support of prominent Democrats from David Geffen to Ted Kennedy, not only b/c of the way she would unify the GOP, but also as a result of strong, principled objections to her stands. This is especially true with her pro-war attitudes-- there is no compromising here, either you're for or against war and the killing of thousands of innocent people.