If you are going to vote for the establishment candidate why are you on Democratic Underground?

[Bleacher Creature]

102. So what did you mean? There are only two options.

We get two chances to vote for a candidate, either in the primary or the general.

If you are suggesting that nobody on this board should be voting for an "establishment" candidate (whatever that means) in the primary, that's a perfectly valid argument. It's also, however, not the point of DU. This board exists to elect more Democrats. Period. Look at the mission statement and read everything ever written by the site's founders. Obviously we all want to see BETTER Democrats elected. We also would want to rethink any "blind" support for someone who is a complete lunatic or someone actively undermining what it means to be a Democrat (i.e., Joe Lieberman or Dan Lipinski). If you're suggesting that any of the three current candidates for the nomination falls into that category, that's absurd.

The only other option is the general. If you're suggesting that nobody on this board should be voting for an "establishment" candidate in the general election, even if that person is the nominee, that DIRECTLY conflicts with everything DU stands for.