What would it take?
Rox Populi asks moderate Republicans and Indies: how the Democratic Party can get your vote?
For me it boils down to honesty. Not trusting Bush Inc. at all, I am predisposed to seriously entertaining the alternatives. But, I won't buy a car from a slick used car salesman either. I'd rather walk than pad the wallet of a conman. Well... that's a metaphor of course. Actually I would just buy from a private party since I'm not at all keen on walking 40 miles to work and back. But, you catch my drift. Just because I don't trust Bush doesn't mean that a single Democrat should presume to count on my knee-jerk voting for a "D".
Tell Roxanne what it would take for you.
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You know, I think along the same lines as you. I mean, yes, I am a Democrat with a huge capital D, but I am disgusted with my parties "leadership" and its seemingly indistinguishable ethics from the gops. I loved Howard Dean because he IS honest. He tells it like it is, and some in his party hate him for it. I wish we could excite grassroots people to take an interest in politics. There's too much of this defeatist attitude, like we can't change anything. It IS our country, not theirs. Anyone can run for office. Sadly, it is too much to ask 60% of the people to even bother to vote, much less become active in taking our country back.
correction: party's (I hate typos!)
As an indie I won't vote R or D, they both leave a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think either party has the will to change enough to represent me.
A bit of marketing is not going to do it.
I certainly agree with you about Howard Dean.
At first I dismissed him in 2003 because I ignorantly bought into the line of BS from Rove et al about Dean being far out on the fringe left. But, my girlfriend convinced me to give Dean a fair chance.
So, I started to dig. Right away I found a blog called Independents for Dean (it has since shut down) and discovered that Dean was actually a solid moderate with a very sensible approach to things like cutting taxes (he paid for his tax cuts as Governor) and gun control (the NRA supported him).
That first blog was responsible for me catching the blogging bug and now I'm involved in two blogs, both of which I set up and own the domain names for - this one and Preemptive Karma.
Immigration reform and enforcement.
The party that seriously tackles this problem will get my vote.
Though both partys stink on this issue right now.
The dems, Az and Nm gov.s pulled thier party ahead for a while but the R's are storming back with the Gov of texas, the senate leader and many R-congressmen working to stifle the flood illegal immigrants.
So as of right now, uless the dems get on the ball, the R's have my vote once again.
But the dems suck on the issue of Guns, abortion, prayer, foreign policy, taxes, homosexuals, etc., etc.
I am interested in the Libertarian party, but their hippyish attitude towards drugs tends to make me shy away from them.
Constitution party? there are things i really like about that one.
Voting third party is mathematically certain to be a waste.
The Greens and Libertarians support Instant Runoff Voting(IRV) which proves they are pretty dumb.
The two cloneproof, monotonic, Condorcet systems are Schulze and Tideman.
I volunteered for weeks on the Dean campaign. I have lots to say on it.
There is a chance Gore will be the Dem nominee.
You can't blame the leadership unless you are involved in party politics. Are you a member of any local party? Join your Indie party, but you must join the Dems or Reps, too. And in each town in America, one has better people.
I vote D.
The majority of Democrats voted against the war.
Even if they really have no ideas, no ideas are better than bad ideas.
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