Who should be the face of the Democratic party?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Is this even a question?

Time to purge this awful corporatist trend my party seems to be on. If they don't like standing up to big business then they can join the Republicans where they belong.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Sanders isn't a Democrat.

True. Maybe Warren or Sherrod Brown or somebody would have made a better first option.

Bernie over what's her butt, but Al Franken should be the face.  He's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him.


(and he's probably the smartest guy on the team anyway)

You know, I wouldn't mind seeing that, actually.

Bernie over the crazy woman, but if a socialist is the face of the democratic party there will be very legitimate concern over the direction of the party.

It could be argued that there has been very legitimate concern over the direction of the party throughout the now verging on three-decade-long New Democrat/DLC/Third Way period, for (obviously) a different set of reasons.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The logic of drug decriminalization is that the actual demand for drugs isn't going to change (much), but the number of people (overwhelmingly minorities) doing prison time for nonviolent offenses is.