Now Cindy isn't running, is it too late for soneone else to step up?

[Greeby]

Apparently declarations for the primary have to be made by Feb 14th :(

[WI_DEM]

1. Feinstein isn't perfect but she is a solid democrat who votes

right most of the time and is our best chance to win in November. Barbara Boxer one of my favorite Democrats also recognizes this--and Feinstein will vote for a Democrat for Majority Leader next year--we need to concentrate our fire on states like RI, MO, OH, PA, MT, TN where we can gain GOP seats and hold our open seats which are in NJ, MN, and MD.

[cali]

3. Couldn't agree more

And for whatever it's worth- and I'm not sure it's worth that much- the ADA gives DiFi a higher rating for the year 2004 than Boxer. http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?sig_id=003455M
My state of Vermont also has an open seat, and though we're about as solidly blue as any state in the country, Bernie's opponent, Tarrant, who's filthy rich, is already running negative ads. We can't take anything for granted.

[LiberalGuy000]

5. and the ACLU

Feinstein also gets a 73% lifetime rating from the ACLU. That's higher than Boxer at 71%.

I don't understand the hatred toward Feinstein on this board.

[cali]

6. It just sort of.....

happens. Morphic resonance or something.

[LiberalGuy000]

7. agreed...sort of like...

the idea that Cindy Sheehan is brilliant.

[cali]

9. LOL

Now we're in trouble.

[Marleyb]

8. Feinstein ignored her constituents when she voted for the war in Iraq

She thought she knew better than the people she represents but apparently did no research because she now says she was misled, she just believed Bush, it's not her fault.

If she spent any time at all with Barbara Boxer, the two should have discussed this issue in which case she would have known that there was no real evidence supporting Bush's imperial war, it was all lies and we all knew it. Claiming she was misled is pure bullshit. If that is true, she is incompetent. Either way it doesn't look good.

And the thing that I cannot overlook, the thing that makes me sick to my stomach...Feinstein and her husband profit directly from the Iraq war. She represents the real disease in this country, the idea of making money at all costs no matter the consequence. 100,000 innocent Iraqis have been killed for greed! And how many more maimed in the most horrible ways imaginable?

[Marleyb]

11. more info on DiFi

Feinstein's $16.5 million view in Pacific Heights

The $16.5 million mansion -- which sits at the foot of Vallejo Street, between the Presidio and some of the city's most hoity-toity addresses -- offers a sweeping view of the bay.

It's right off what Herb Caen christened the "Gold Rush" -- the final two blocks of upper, upper Broadway, where the residents include Ann and Gordon Getty, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and Mimi Haas -- as in the Levi Strauss Haases....

This is hardly Blum and Feinstein's only real estate undertaking in recent years. Five years ago, they traded in their five-story townhouse in Washington, D.C., for a nearly $6 million, French Renaissance-style estate in the Spring Valley neighborhood, just down the street from American University.

A couple of years earlier, they built themselves a $7.4 million ski retreat on 30 acres in Aspen, Colo., just down the road from the 15-bedroom pleasure palace of a Saudi prince.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/29/BAGS6GV7KH1.DTL

Over the years, however, as Blum and Feinstein have grown in their respective spheres of business and politics, critics have periodically wondered whether one or the other member of this power couple had unduly used their money or influence to benefit the other.

Such questions have surfaced again in the wake of the $600 million military contract won by EG&G Technical Services, a new division that URS purchased in 2002 from the well-connected Washington, D.C., investment firm the Carlyle Group.

Carlyle is a $14 billion buyout firm whose associates and advisers include former President George Bush, former British Prime Minister John Major and former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Arthur Levitt. As part of EG&G's sale price, Carlyle acquired a 21.74 percent stake in URS -- second only to the 23.7 percent of shares controlled by Blum Capital

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/11/BU18813.DTL

[Beaverhausen]

Kerry voted for it too. And Edwards. Please give it a rest

Feinstein has been doing very well for us lately.

[ronnykmarshall]

14. Watch this .......

HILLARY/DIANNE 2008 !!



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[rinsd]

16. "I don't understand the hatred toward Feinstein on this board."

On the short list? She voted for Bush's tax cuts, she voted for IRW and subsequent funding bills, her husband is in the defense biz.

Those are rough summaries of DUer complaints, not my own.

It's not the hatred of DiFi that baffles me but how people on DU thinks it extends to the larger body politic of Democratic voters when ALL evidence is to the contrary.

[ISUGRADIA]

18. They think it because they assume all Democrats are just as

obsessed and active as they are. The truth is most Democrat primary voters have a minimal amount of knowledge about candidates. They read the papers, see the TV ads, maybe do some research on the internet. But they don't spend hours and hours on the Internet, at party and candidate events, etc.

The activists in a political party are less forgiving of perceived apostosy than the members at large. If Sheehan had run she'd got between 10%-30% depending on turnout.

But some DUers don't understand wholesale politics.

[TomInTib]

2. I doubt anyone could raise enough money to unseat Feinstein. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. No, the deadline to file is March 10

[Nutmegger]

10. DiFi needs someone to challenge her

LIEberman needs someone to challenge him.
Cantwell needs someone to challenge her.
Ben Nelson of needs someone to challenge him.

These are people who have made some comments that I'm not too happy with. This is why there are primaries! While we shouldn't pour our time and effort into defeating them, we shouldn't give them a "free pass" just because they're an incumbent.

[KingFlorez]

12. DiFi is great

She made a mistake, but I don't hold it against her because she does well representing the people.

[understandinglife]

13. Warren Beatty, Arianna Huffington ....

Peace.

[rinsd]

17. I doubt Arianna will ever run again. (nt)

[mattclearing]

15. I never expected her to run as a Dem. n/t