When they denied Timmy and Brian the food fight they were so obviously trolling for. I hope their supporters were paying attention.

I had a similar epiphany last night too. I've been going over all the candidates platforms and records and doing my ole' "Ben Franklin Chart" pros and cons and really looking at the problems we as a nation face and what the next President will face and there is one inescapable conclusion...

America is so screwed up that it will take the concerted efforts of all three, working together to get us out of the deep horse pucky we're in!

They all have very their strengths and weaknesses, but collectively they have some really fantastic and workable ideas that as a nation we need.

It is going to be decades before we can undo thirty years of class warfare and the extensive damage that Bush and Cheney have visited upon us.

I know it will sound bad, but in a way the recession and the sub-prime debacle have helped because the politics of the GOP... "the politics of diversion and distraction" as Paul Krugman dubbed it... don't work on the majority of the American public any more.

The problems and causes have never been more clearly identified in the minds of the majority of the American people as they are now.

It is going to take all of us to remain involved and engaged to effect the changes we need. The sleeper has awakened!

We're just choosing a captain.

the republican field!

What a huge contrast will be presented to the American people this fall--a thoughtful, passionate, intelligent candidate for change versus a status quo, war-mongering reactionary.

my enjoyment of the Republication "situation" is the sheer terror that I feel when I think that it's always possible for things to go so far wrong that one of them might actually become President of the United States.

Remember 2000 AND 2004.

Speak as passionately and as often as you want in support of any of our candidates and I will appreciate your position.  We should be talking about them--assessing their strengths--making the best possible decision.

Attack any one of them and you are NOT on my side.

Seeing TomP and other such fierce partisans commenting so positively, I'm encouraged.

I hope it'll last...

is incredibly important for the Democrats. One is a competent policy wonk, one is an inspirer and one is a fighter against forces that could destroy our democracy.  If nothing else, they must be influencing each other as we move forward to get our country back.

and I can't wait to see a general election debate between anyone we field and anyone they field.

That will be glorious.

I am. I'm tired of moderating my enthusiasm for our candidates with worry over what the opposition and press are going to do.

And I don't believe for one second they won't run the exact same scorched earth style campaign against whomever our nominee is. They're sharpening their knives and they will wield them.

So what's important, in my eyes, is not who's "electable," it's who is going to fight back most effectively.