Reply #197: Nonsense...

[Iowa]

"You refuse to vote for Democrats then you vote Republican by default"

This is utter bullshit. In fact, the opposite is often true.

You should be voting for the candidate that will uphold historic Democratic ideals. If a candidate is a corporatist, anti-civil-liberties, war mongering, sell-out, you shouldn't be voting for him no matter what brand-name he wears. You have no obligation to support a Republican - even if that Republican pretends to be a Democrat.

I will be voting for Roxanne Conlin (who's running against Chuck Grassley), but there's no way in hell I'd be voting for Ben Nelson if I lived in Nebraska. No way. I'd either vote third party, if that was a viable option, or leave it blank. I don't vote for Republicans... never have and never will. It's a matter of principle. If there are two Republicans to choose from, I refuse to support either one of them.