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DVRacer

(707 posts)
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 01:48 AM Feb 2019

Before I get to revved up over any candidate

I do want to say I don’t care who or what their main issues are. I want to remind myself don’t get hung up on a flaw or a different opinion about something. Don’t allow myself to get drug off into the weeds over something I agree 80-90% with. I want to remind myself I will not do the work for the other side in anyway shape or form. I am a member of the Democratic Party and an American. It is my job to help retake the Senate and grow the House and once and for all remove that stain in the Oval Office. I will not fail.

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Before I get to revved up over any candidate (Original Post) DVRacer Feb 2019 OP
ditto yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2019 #1
This is why I have "trash-canned" all the current and future candidates SoCalDem Feb 2019 #2
I do have an interest in their main issues Sherman A1 Feb 2019 #3
I agree bluescribbler Feb 2019 #4
Let's Win This proud patriot Feb 2019 #5
i don't think it's an 'either/or' The Mouth Feb 2019 #6
So her emails for you? N/t DVRacer Feb 2019 #7

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
2. This is why I have "trash-canned" all the current and future candidates
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 04:12 AM
Feb 2019

When things settle in, closer to 2020, I will retrieve the possibles,, Until then, My GD page is waaaaay less cluttered and a more friendly...

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
3. I do have an interest in their main issues
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 06:46 AM
Feb 2019

And hope that the choice comes from a discussion of ideas and not the cable noise horse race. The issues are in fact The Issue.

bluescribbler

(2,116 posts)
4. I agree
Wed Feb 20, 2019, 04:10 PM
Feb 2019

Although one of the candidates is my Senior Senator, (Elizabeth Warren), and I love her completely, I will wait for a few more months before deciding which candidate gets my support. There are too many good candidates running. That said, the party's nominee will have my full support in the general election.

The Mouth

(3,148 posts)
6. i don't think it's an 'either/or'
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:11 PM
Feb 2019

I'll vote the 'D', of course...

But....

I want a process where the corporate hacks, 'Third Way' twits and DINOs are eliminated.

Primaries should be Darwinian. I want the last person standing to both represent what I think best for America and be able to win. Anyone who can't take all the oppo research and hard blows that the rest of the field can dish out can't win against Trump. And while you or I might be able to hold our nose and vote 'D', counting on our fellow Americans to do that ain't gonna work. Simply being 'Not Donald Trump' didn't win before, it won't this time.

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