There's a sale at J.C. Penny's.

On shirts?  I need a shirt.

I think this is terrible advice. There's always the chance we'll biff a third election in our row - the last two were ours to lose, too. If we lose, do we really want it to be to MITT FRICKIN ROMNEY?

I say, take no chances. Hope they nominate the least bad of their candidates, on the off chance we do lose. I don't think we will, but hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Part of me wants to encourage Michigan voters to vote uncommitted in the dem primary, since it stands to benefit Obama. However, if it turns out that there isn't really much likelihood of a strong uncommitted turnout, then I think a vote for Romney is a great idea. In fact, I think it may be more important to slow down McCain's momentun than to give Obama a tiny bump from strong uncommitted turnout.

I would instead vote uncommitted in order to help Obama.  

Whoever wrote this is an idiot. Mitt is trying to claim the mantle of "Michigan Man". If he wins here, the story will be that he united the fiscal and christian conservatives around one candidacy. That is NOT what you want.

If you want to be smart, have people vote for Huckabee. Remember, we were a Robertson state way back when.

I hate conservatives, first and foremost.  

Conservatives are going ape crazy over the prospect of either Huckabee or McCain being their nominee.  They have talked themselves into the theme that McCain is aided only by Democrats and Independents, that Republicans don't want him to be the nominee, and that Huckabee is only in the race to help McCain get rid of Romney as a viable candidate BEFORE the race moves onto closed primaries.  That is a very damaging theme for McCain and Huckabee, as they are now building McCain and Huckabee into their "to be defeated at all cost" enemy.   Listen to Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, et al to see where the conservative mind is at this point on their candidates.   I am thinking that if either McCain or Huckabee are nominated, against the very strong wishes of conservatives, the GOP will probably splinter apart, and Conservatives will wash their hands from this process.  There is a good chance that Conservatives will run a candidate of their own to counteract the dreaded and now fully dispised Huckabee/McCain tandem.    That means to me that Huckabee is probably the best case scenario, with Conservatives hating most of what he stands for, and he is also not as strong as McCain as our opponent.  

I'll be glad when the primaries are over, and I can go back to hating Republicans.

I am really opposed to Hillary Clinton getting the nomination, and if she can't get a majority of the votes on a ballot with no other frontrunners, that sends a nice message for me.

I am not going to vote for Romney because I would kick myself if he got the nomination and won the general election.

Since a Hillary nomination would probably lead to Bloomberg and Naders getting in the race, a Romney win isn't that far fetched.

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this is a bad idea not because of potential blow-back, as it were, but rather because it is ethically questionable.  If Republicans were to start voting in Democratic primaries in large numbers simply to screw with the result, people here would howl.  Raising the bar of acceptable behavior seems like a good thing for the country as a whole.

Orange Day!

JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.

On January 11, we are calling on everyone opposed to torture and indefinite detention to WEAR ORANGE to symbolize their sadness and disgust with the national shame that is Guantánamo Bay.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/c loseguantanamo.html?rsc=mydd

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/10/ 184519/630/624/434646

...not to mention control of all the committees in the 110th Congress would be better right?

We wouldn't want to be nice to Lieberman before the 2006 election was decided and have him vote with the GOP on the organization of the Senate out of spite would we?

Regardless of whether you decide to vote for Clinton, vote uncommitted, vote as a Republican, or just stay home, please let the Democratic leadership know how you feel about our fiasco of a primary this year!  Letting only part of the nation elect our national leaders weakens our democracy, and weakens the Democratic party.  You can find some more information, and some ideas on contacting the Democratic leadership, at http://WhoStoleMiVote.org

It is great to see the Daily Kos putting this out about voting for Romney.  Why don't they just put up a big banner saying "We Are Terrified of John McCain and Mike Huckabee!!"  

Unless this is reverse pyschology at its finest, this is a good thing for McCain and Huckabee.