Reply #76: and Bingo was his name-o!

[Yuugal]

I cant speak for anyone else, but you are exactly right in my case. My support of Edwards is mostly because he is the only one besides the Kooch and maybe Biden who says the right things. If I was an Iowan I would vote for Edwards even though I like others better because Edwards actually has a chance. Many people on DU think Edwards' recent conversion to the populist fold is an act but I would still rather have a guy talk the right game and give me half of it, than a Hillary type who talks the corporatist game and gives me all of it.

Hillary is going to be bad for the party because she is going to lose. She will bring the reps out in record numbers against us while simultaneously keeping progressive dems uninterested and thus home or voting 3rd party on election day. The saddest part of this is our party leaders, who cant seem to grasp that alot of poor people like myself just aren't going to vote against our interests anymore. If progressives are going to keep losing and things are going to get much worse before enough people see the light then so be it. I'm waiting for the dawn to come and Hillary is just a night light in Nome, Alaska in January.

If we give her a chance to be the corporate boot licker she is as president, then we waste 4-8 yrs on her and 4-8 yrs on the rep toad-ie that will follow her........or.......we vote our conscience now and lose......but maybe in 4 yrs we get another shot at a real progressive to win.

So just to sum up: Hillary lovers, there is just no way I can vote for your Goldwater Girl/Walmart board member. I'm not voting for a war monger, I'm not voting for a corporatist, and I'm certainly not voting for anyone who thinks outsourcing is a good thing. We already made that mistake once and we ended up with NAFTA. His name was Clinton too.