Our '08 nominee should allow free votes on the healthcare, Iraq and trade planks.

[Ken Burch]

Those policies, more than anything else, should reflect what the grass-roots want, not what the candidate purchased by the elite wants.

The platform belongs to the party.

And watered-down centrist half-measures on the above are certain to make us unpopular and to destroy all rank-and-file enthusiasm about the race.

We can win on conviction and principle. We can win on courage. Let's try it...at least once...'kay?