Reply #100: I follow. I'm an old Bella Abzug kind of Democrat, so I'm to the left of the [View All]

entire field.

I'd love to sculpt our candidates' ideological profiles to my liking, but so far none of them has phoned me up.

I'd be hoping for big portions of Mario Cuomo, Robert F. Kennedy, Bella Abzug, Birch Bayh, Howard Metzenbaum, and Mo Udall, and that's just the first round.

Biden has been in the U.S. Senate since what -- the Civil War. A long time. Any public servant in office that long builds a trajectory of both supporters and detractors, since the vote totals start to pile up pretty quickly.

He's a bigger target than some of the less experienced hands, and while he does have some votes I'd prefer he'd have gone the other way on, I respect the trajectory as it comes to me. Not only on foreign policy, although he runs blue rings around the pathetic Dick Lugar on the SFRC.

Not least, I like a person who rides a train to work.