Kerry receives most important (to me) endorsement there is.

What is an ABB?

Anyone But Bush. But I'm really an AABB.

ATMS.

Good.

AABB, ATMS, let the rest of us in on the secret?

I suggest "Almost Anyone But Bush"

And, I was just funning with Craven's alphabet soup - mine was supposed to be very mysterious - "Ah, That Makes Sense" - but you made me ruin it!

Now we're talking :-D You go Craven ;-)

Re: Kerry receives most important (to me) endorsement there


Was an opinion piece on All Things Considered late last week that was addressing the tendancy of Dem's to choose on basis of electability. Said that it makes them (you, Crav') amatur pundits.

The speaker's conclusion is that one should make up one's mind, not on who you think others would like, but on who you like. Not who might get elected, but who might do the bast possible job when elected.

Mind you, I like Kerry. I've got one on you Crav... I've already voted for him. On the other hand... Kerry in the White House puts one more Republican in the Senate.

The one I'd most like is me. Of the ones available Kerry is the one I most want.

Whoever said that was a Republican trying to help Bush get elected. :-)

This year's a "counter-vote" year. If it weren't for Bush I'd not even vote. Electability is the key to a tough "counter-vote".

If you were running Craven, you'd get my vote.

I never voted when I was in the states and I truly wish I could do it this year. I feel so helpless :-(

Kerry, a perrenial candidate, failed to excite the electorate in years past. Here's hoping he's not a sacrificial candidate, a Bob Dole, if you will.

I'm almost there. I'm still watching and waiting at this point, but my default mode seems to be of support for Kerry -- when I read something bad about him, I get mad, when I read something good about him, I get happy. (As opposed to Dean, for example, where when I read something bad about him, I say, "See!", and when I read something good about him, I say, "Hmmm...")

We feel comfortable with Kerry because he's been there a long time. I just wonder how many people are going to say, "I could have voted for him already, but didn't; why change that now?"

I haven't been comfortable with Kerry. He hasn't been on my radar. He is now, for the first time.

By the time the primaries hit Texas, I will vote for tha candidate that speaks to me. I honestly ain't sure who it will be. Kerry is beginning to seem like the party choice, but I hope it's not all over yet.

It's far fom over, eb. Kerry plays well in the midwest and maybe the northeast, but nobody knows how he will play in the south. Edwards may have the edge there. Don't touch that dial, the game's just begun.

1.) You want the job? You're worse off than I thought you are...

2.) Whoever said that said as much as ABB...

Well...I have decided that electability is key to everything his year.

Now...I gotta decide who is electable.

Well, I'd like to have a bed to sleep in. With that salary I could.

A fair assessment, Swimp.

I have always preferred Clark, but there are times when the rough-and-tumble political world seems to leave him guessing.

Someone else said that generals are used to answering a question once, and politicians have to get used to answering the same question over and over and over again.

Clark is plenty electable, and comes across as a bright, thoughtful, caring, and generally wonderful fellow, but I would like to see him now take out his stiletto and use it against an opponent.

Just once, so that I know he can.

For this reason (and others, IMHO) John Kerry has surged to the lead; he mixes the right amount of caring and compassion with an I'll-rip-your-lungs-out-if-I-have-to intensity (which I believe was Dean's main appeal all along).

John Edwards has the same yin/yang personality (and uses it even more deftly than does John Kerry; Edwards cuts people to ribbons, smiles while he does it, and everyone -- including the ripee -- loves him. He must have been quite a trial lawyer.)

Those four are all electable, in my view, and some two-man combination of combat veteran/Southernor/compassionate tough guy will emerge.

And just wipe the floor with Bush and Cheney.