Dean Supporters Check In...

I know we've lost a few Dean supporters who have chosen to leave DU because of their displeasure with the atmosphere. I'd like to know who has stuck around, so please let your presence be known!

Thanks!

:hi:

may not be the best day to guage this. I'm here, but heading out till tomorrow.

:evilgrin:

till the last dog dies.

But DU has become less fun lately.

:hi:

i support dean, but why should i be offended because other du members like other candidates? want heat-wait for the general election campaign

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DU isn't any kind of place to actually campaign for Dean. But you can get info on other campaigns and a good flow of news, as well as some research and background.

When passions run high, there are those who decided that their time was better spent elsewhere, having previously found more support and comraderie on DU. -I think it's always as much the loss of that as any other reason.

You may not really be able to judge this election by the previous ones because this is the first time that so much information has been available to so many.

We don't know what will happen, especially considering that Dean is breaking all kinds of conventionalisms anyway!

It has nothing to do with other candidate supporters. Glad to have you on-board though, in spite of the wimp comment ;)

I do have a problem with the anybody but Dean folks being allowed to use DU as a resource, not to promote their candidate, but to tear down Dean.

DU is being used to organize against the democratic frontrunner... and we know that the folks doig this are not just supporters of other candidates but repukes as well trying to foment hostility between dems. And the DU folks are allowing it because Dean is the target.

I can not support that effort.

It bothers me that I have to choose between DU and Dean, but it seems to have come to that... and Dean wins that fight hands down.

:thumbsup:

Then I can get back to Bush bashing.

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that I haven't bothered much in this forum. I have only been posting a month or so, and even I have seen the same topics repeatedly regurgitated.

respond to.

Oops wrong thread :)

so I answer your call.

When I see that type of message, I know I'm working with the good guys

Thanks JVS

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Well keep your list. Whatever you think best serves democracy. But I'll take a different brand, thank you.

Everything is "scary" to those who live in fear.
The constant message of fear from the other candidates do not serve democracy well.

not everything is scary. Only McCarthyistic calls to "keep track" of those cowards and traitors (per your deleted post), and remind them of their cowardliness and treachery to...whom?

Their country?

Or Dean?

:shrug:

why support a candidate who voted for the patriot act?

This can go back and forth.

of losing NOT be reminded when we win?
When we need help in beating Bush they run and hide to the mommy candidates like Clark...

Never mind. Dean will not win, especially with this kind of McCarthyism. It's a good thing that people are beginning to wake up - and see the that Howard Brush Dean III is the flip side of the coin that is George Walker Bush.

I do not have fear. I have hope.

I've been in "lurk" mode lately :)

And going with Dean all the way to the Whitehouse!

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Online food fights do nothing but feed Rove's oppo researchers. Anybody who refuses to understand that everything they say here is unbelievably valuable focus group research for Rove <b>whoever our candidate is</b> hasn't fully caught onto how public our postings are.

Though I got so upset by somebody on this board the moderators slapped my wrist. As well they should have.

Is there going to be a year end bat??

...but I've been spending more time on trying to get the news out in my community. DU is no place to campaign, more just a sounding board (or a wall to throw sh*t at, take your pick), most here have already "picked their horse". We need to reach the people that aren't reading this board, or any other...

Out in the real world I'm having a great deal of success in turning people on to Dr Dean. His grassroots support is a huge plus. Despite the detoriation of civility, Du is still a wonderful place. I simply have less time to spend here.

I am sort of here, but I have a paper to write...

Sometimes the barbs are hard to take, so I just go to the next subject
and try to keep my sanity. This infighting is just ridiculous. We are
doing the right wing's dirty work for them by ridiculing the other candidates. :hi:

I support Dean.

just reading when the material is fitting...If you know what I mean.

And I love our new second home

but I decided to check in anyway...

I know my fellow DUers were never use the attack politics of the right to trash any Democratic Candidate.

:grouphug:

F*ck you freeper creepers, you've lost now and you're gonna loose next November.

or Clark, Dean being my first choice but Clark is sounding better and better everyday, I could support him with no qualms if he's our candidate. Howard first though........

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I'm here, but I'm very discouraged. The tone of this campaign already sucks. I am very fearful that we are sabotaging ourselves - and will hand the election to Bush through our own stupidity.

I fear that 2004 may be my last year as a Democrat. If we screw this up, I'll leave the party.

Very unhappy to see the organizing against my candidate being promoted on this forum. I don't think any contributor to this site would feel any differently if it was their candidate.

On a brighter note Go Doc! :bounce:

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you've already had 2 other posts deleted. In the time it took me to do a search and check, they were already deleted, all within 5 minutes.

:bounce:

I'm now MORE conviced we'll win!

I just watched the NH Dr's endorsement and was very impressed. The townhall meeting last week was excellent as well. Howards looking good. You can sense the excitement and buzz around him when he's in a room. He's a star.

All 70% of the Dems against Dean seem to be on this website. :)

I know that supporters of candidates must feel justified somehow, and I know that Dean is the frontrunner so it's to be expected, but the general attitude here is pretty ugly. Every negative thing that's said about Dean in the press is repeated here as if it's proof of Dean's unworthiness. It's boring and a waste of time, so I mostly just lurk now.

I've been a Dean supporter for awhile (MAY), but just recently joined DU. It has definitely been an eye opener to me on the strong dislike for Dr.Dean from other Democrats, but I'm still 100% behind him.

For campaigning on behalf of Dean...and enjoying my friends and relatives over the holidays. This ridiculous bickering here doesn't lead to a happy holiday for me.

Solidly for Dean..plenty of talking to the relatives and friends about him..but not here.

I hate attack politics in general and I even hate it more when people attack the people who actually get off their butts to fight and organize around someone they believe in. Here is a thread I posted about stupid ways of politicing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=13197

Feel free to comment there or not of course. I respect Dean supporters for the committment they have made to changing America, and thank you for that, as much as I respect and thank my fellow Clark supporters.

rolling with the punches.

I heart absurdity.

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I'm fairly new here, but I don't plan to leave anytime soon.

Sitting in O'Hare Airport right now. The flight is delayed, of course. No explanation. :-(

Hope you were shuttling a few troopers home... and checking in, of course!

:hi:

Hawkeye-X

Now he's almost as despiced as Bush. I think us DU Dean supporters are partially to blame for this. We need to be better ambassadors for our candidate.

The clark folks put the call out on Clark blogs for a flood of Clark supporters to flood DU, attacking Dean, and pushing Clark.

There are still plenty of Dean supporters here... but we're ass deep in loud noobs from the Clark blogs. There's no converting these folks. They're not here for honest debate or for exchange of ideas... rather they are here to attack Dean and promote Clark.

And a good number of freepers have taken this opening as a chance to create hostility between dems by coming here and pretending to support a candidate, then just generaly being abrasive assholes.

Frankly I think the best thing we can do is simply leave DU until the mods decide to actualy enforce DU rules about attacking democrats.

Since I doubt that will happen until after the primaries are over... I think most Dean folks will be going to other places for a while.

:(

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Bush has no chance against him I cant wait for the real fun to begin!

I'm here.

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Kim

Progressive .. Dean Voter .. DU Citizen

go Howard!

I still hang out on the DU Lounge and LBN...some of the threads here tweak me a bit...but like I said...I'm still here...!

zidzi reporting for duty! Been busy getting sigs for Dean to be on the New York Primary ballot!

The Dean People wanted them in early so they could make sure they were all 100% right on! :D :kick:

Thinking of leaving now and then but sticking it out for now.

Though I've become disenchanted with DU lately. Too much censorship and too much mindlessness.

I lurk mostly. The atmosphere here is pretty toxic and I don't need the grief. I'd rather do something positive like registering voters or talking to real life people than reading Democrats describe how unelectable the Democratic frontrunner is.

I mostly lurk and now even less with the same old, tired, toxic lies being thrown around about Dean. But, I am trying to stick it out.

This place has become a nightmare what with all the campaigns running opposition to Dean on this board and all the Rethugs doing the same. There are other and better places on the net if your're interested in information on Dr. Dean and there are much better things to do with your time if you're already a Dean supporter and want to see him elected.

Even the once glorious LBN has become a empty shell with some top stories like the Campaign Finance decision going unnoticed for hours as the principal energies on the board are directed against Howard Dean.

My thinking is, let these combatants destroy each other while the more reasonable among us get to work electing the next Democratic president of the United States.

Still here, still posting

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I'm not going to let a bunch of librul amurika hatin commies chase me away!!!!!

O8)

Oh we are so green....so pure we will put Bush in the Whitehouse....because we don't have a candidate that can win.......get a freakin' grip.....put out the incense for just a moment.....

We love you Dr. Dean.....the lean, the semi green,,,,,the Dean Machine....
Because WE can WIN....and anyone who tells you we are Bush light....are full of Bushshit....

did someone say they needed the country taken back?

At your service :)

:bounce::kick::bounce:

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John

and I'm not going anywhere either. :)

I don't read most of the anti-Dean threads; when I do, I find myself laughing more than anything else.

Reporting for duty.

:hi:

It seems to come in waves, and aside from the usual suspects who we all know, new waves come in with low post counts, pounding out republican talking points. Frankly, a lot of it is juvenile, though the points are always so similar that I can't help but think some organized effort is at work. maybe from the old draft Clark people- but probably also from republicans as well.

Don't really like this place too much anymore.

Kudos to yall that fight the good fight and have the patience to point out facts over and over in a nauseating repeating cycle of attacks!

:toast:

Disgusted by the quadrennial cannibalism that is the Democratic Party - amplified here on DU for our enjoyment.

Thank God the votes begin next month. Pary unity can't come soon enough for me.

Keep your eyes on the prize!

Just trying to stay away from the flame wars.
On to the White House!

But I am watching and I am always here.

NBD '04

I've spent more time lately in the lounge to escape the atmosphere here. But I'll stick around.

And anxiously awaiting the Doctor to extract the cancer from the White House

now that my Norvasc is working, my Zoloft is kicking in and my hand has healed from punching the walls. I just hate to see us Dems lining up for that circular firing squad tradition we seem to relish.

Dean is still my choice.

I'm in this to bring down the Bush Criminal Empire and remove all neocon fascist sympathizers from this nation's government. Can't do that by preaching to the choir, right? ;)

and waiting to see if the new DU rules make this place somewhat civil again.

I've got no time to fight the ABD cause anylonger. :hi:

keep up the good fight.

Peace

Still supporting Dean, yep.

Edit: The DU atmosphere has been pretty bad. But it's the holidays, and there's very little time to spend online anyway.

eom

...tabling, coordinating meetups, printing out literature, getting certified as a voter registration volunteer, etc., etc., etc.

Was designing a Dean Meetup ad last night to go into a local publication that my DTC uses for it's ads during election season. Have to come up with another option tonight, but am busy preparing for my town's 1st official Meetup and am aiming to attract those who have no Internet access, which there are a lot of in our town.

Tonight I'm taking a mini-break from Dean Campaing work -- going out to dinner and then see Lord of the Rings: Return of the King with a pro-Dean friend from work.

Go Dean!
Lord of the Roots, who shares his power!

(Today's a rare exception.)

Atlant