[PhiKapMom]

Typical purist response -- don't get 100% of what you want so you would prefer Dean where you get zero percent of what you want! Amazing!

[TheAngryClam]

See what Kevin Curry wrote in post 60:

After two interations of such malarkey, you have 25 percent of what you started with. After six iterations, you have about three percent.

You die by degrees, and you die ignobly.

Bush hasn't given me jack. He's vetoed nothing, gave an utterly compromised tax cut, wasted $400 billion on medicare giveaways, wasted $15 billion on AIDS in Africa, keeps sending up trial balloons about illegal alien amnesty, pushed an education bill Ted Kennedy could love, imposed steel tariffs, signed the bloated farm bill, and so forth.

Pray tell, WHAT 50% of what I want has Bush done?

[Born in a Rage]

The truth is that if one is willing to overlook his socially liberal point of view, he has many conservative qualities - focusing on fiscal (Vermont has an excellent record in that realm), is for states rights, he's not 'after' guns, he wants to break up the media monopoly....he's the best chance to Democrats have against Bush. Everything that conservatives 'fault' Bush for, so does he. Bush needs to pander to his conservative base with more than patriotic speeches. We all love the flag but we need real common sense Texas talk on why he has formulated so many government programs and whatnot....he needs a good 'ole townhall or fireside chat, imho.