I'm a Die Hard Dem..but feel DemParty has Thrown their Activists/Grassroots UNDER the Bus.....

[KoKo]

Poll question: I'm a Die Hard Dem..but feel DemParty has Thrown their Activists/Grassroots UNDER the Bus.....

Here's the Deal: We are being asked to DONATE and SUPPORT folks we don't feel comfortable with. So, how are you dealing with SELECTION '08?

My questions are biased...because I'm NOT a Pollster...but they come from my heart ...and if you can deal with a "biased poll" here on DU...Please Reply...

:shrug:

[Bluzmann57]

1. I like Dodd. I like him a lot

And I intend to caucus for him on January 3 right here in Iowa. If we don't get the 15 pct. we need to make him viable, I may just go home. One has to stand by his or her beliefs.
I will vote for the Democratic nominee in November, but may not actually "put feet on the ground" to support him or her if it's who I think it may be.

[madrchsod]

3. i feel that way about dennis

i`m voting for him even though i know he has`t a chance. yup it`s principals one stands on

[Jackpine Radical]

6. The odds of it being her...I mean HIM or her...seem to be diminishing slightly.

Breaks my heart.

I prefer Obama to Hillary but not by a whole lot. Y'know, it makes me crazy that in a year with a viable black and a viable woman running, I can't get behind either because they're too far to the right. Who woud have figured?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I voted for Edwards, but I could sure live with Kucinich, Biden, Dodd, maybe

Richardson...

I did have trouble with your labelling Edwards a "New Democrat," though. That phrase, at least in my mind, means a DLC Corporate Neoliberal, and I wouldn't for a moment consider Edwards r anyone else if that's what I thought they were.

[KoKo]

4. I'm sorry...I meant "New Dem" not in the perjorative sense of DLC /New...but New/Populist in his

Campaign. I just inserted "Populist/Dem" in the poll so it would reflect that Edwards new rhetoric was different from when he ran with Kerry.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Yeah, kid. I sorta figured that.

Bt my compulsive pedantry wouldn't permit me to let it alone.

[KoKo]

8. At least your reply

was kind. :D And, that's much appreciated these days.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Aw, you know I woldn't trash you.

We've both been on this board too long, we've been on the same side too many times for that. Besides I really try not to do that to people. It seems so pointlessly destructive to do gratuitous injury to people.

Of course a lot of people seem to misunderstand my attempts at humor and choose to take offense at things meant in levity.

[KoKo]

11. humor

is in very short supply these days. Any attempt at it...seems to be misunderstood 'cause there's so little of it. Understandable, I suppose...but much needed, still. Well...at least humor used to keep the "peace" sometimes...in years gone long past.

thanks.

[wisteria]

7. Yep, they have begun to ignore us. n/t

[Truth2Tell]

10. Kucinich all the way

Although Edwards could suffice if he's really changed is colors (yet to be seen). I could also live with Dodd or Gravel. I would vote for Obama with a clothespin on my nose and *maybe* the same for Biden and Richardson. That's all of them right?

[mmonk]

12. Your 4th and 5th choices

though I like Dodd too especially since he would restore the constitution by executive order as much as he could as soon as he took office.