Reply #17: Why do you have to choose?

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It's two years (at least) before anybody has to make any choice about 2008. People here at DU are foaming at the mouth about Presidential Election 2008 when it's still years away. It is useless and senseless to speculate about who's running or who's winning. In the meantime it diverts attention away from something far, far more important. That's the 2006 Congressional Election.

People, we need to focus on what comes first and foremost. I, too, wonder about 2008. But I will not even begin considering candidates until there are candidates. That won't happen for two years and unless somebody takes a position of leadership (in principle, not polls) I will not be deciding for some time after that.

In the meantime we have work to do. There are minor matters of a WH collapsing for want of leadership, a Repug party beginning to tatter, and a Dem leadership that seems to be obtaining a backbone. Then, there's another minor matter of the impeachment of an administration. All these things must be embraced and encouraged on the path towards our next big goal, the 2006 midterms. We need not concern ourselves at all with 2008 until 2008 arrives.