General Discussion

Red vs Blue?
That all?


In 2002, I was working as a volunteer for Paul Wellstone's Senatorial campaign in St Paul shortly before he was killed. He was engaged in a neck & neck battle with Norm Coleman.
The Bush Administration scheduled the vote for The Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq about three weeks before the election in November.

ALL the pundits, pollsters, Talking Heads, and Party Strategists told Wellstone that IF he voted AGAINST the Iraq War Resolution it would cost him the election.

Wellstone voted AGAINST the AUMF anyway.
The evening after the vote, when interviewed by local TV,
who ALL assumed he would lose the election because of his vote,
Wellstone was asked WHY he voted against it despite it costing him the election?
Wellstone answered,
"Sometimes you just have to do the right thing."

Funny thing, a couple of days after Wellstone STOOD on Principle,
he surged ahead in the polls, and was leading Coleman at the time he was killed.


I STAND in OPPOSITION to ANY use of Military Force in Syria by the USA
because it is the RIGHT thing to do.

My reasons are detailed elsewhere in this thread.


---bvar22
A loyal Democrat for over 46 years