Reply #79: This has to be the most sickening division I've ever seen on this board! [View All]

There are so many "progressives" here attacking a good candidate because he made an honest statement that was in keeping with a true progressive agenda. The knives are out and stabbing wildly in all directions in a perverse frenzy of bloodlust.

I've read Dean's "flag" remarks and agree with them completely. If someone here does not then I would challenge their progressive credentials. I've seen post after post from these people in which they purposely try to confuse the issue and ignore the facts. I've stayed out of this discussion hoping it would die down, but it appears there are too many primary partisans here to let that happen. I wish these people would understand that they are not just stabbing Dean, they are slicing their own candidates as well.

There is not a single Democratic candidate that I would not have been proud to support before this issue arose, but now my field has been severely limited. I will not support any Democrat who has used this fallacious issue to cloud the voter's judgement. That means Kerry, Edwards, Sharpton, and Lieberman are all out. If others attack or have attacked Dean on this issue I will not vote for them either. You see, I've had enough of the slime that repubs have thrown at us all these years and I will not support Democrats use of it, either.

These self serving candidates have probably cost us the election with this "scandal" as their purposeful twisting of a good idea has alienated black and southern voters who would normally agree with Dean's statement. Are the supporters of this style of pyhrric tactics so naive as to think the Democratic party can win with only the coasts? Maybe so. Maybe that is why we lost in 2002.

It's time to ask whether we want to vote for the next President of the United States of America in unity and good will, or is it so important that our prospective candidate gets the nod that we are willing to sacrifice our country to repubs for four more years.

Think about it.