There isn't a candidate running that doesn't say "When I'm President." If you're not cocky (within reason) then you don't have the guts to sit behind that desk.

And no Democrat deserves Bush/Rumsfeld comparisons.  

If you saw the clip, Hillary said that she's never even considered the possiblity that she wouldn't be the nominee (she might as well proclaim "mission accomplished.").

If nominated I'd vote for her, but I hate to think I'd be voting for a hawk, or for someone who voted for the flag burning Amendment, or for a former board member of Wal-Mart.  

The woman has a good chance of being our nominee for president.  What are you hoping to accomplish by bashing her?  And your last diary slammed Obama!  Will any Democrat be left standing by the time you're through?

What bothers me about this type of cockiness is that Bush was the same way before the 2004 election. We then saw a lot of election fraud and repression of the minority vote. Is this why he was so cocky? Was this planned? I hope this is not the reason Hillary is so cocky.

As far as criticizing our own, we should criticize them MORE. This IS a democracy isn't it? They work for US, not the other way around.

Why would the GOP need to spend money to run negative ads against the Democratic nominee?  They can just rely on you to rip all the Democrats to shreds.  By the time the general election rolls around, Democrats will be so dispirited and divided that Mitt Romney walks right into the White House.

So go ahead, rip the Democrats and wave the free speech and democracy banners.  It's your last chance before Anthony Kennedy, John Paul Stevens and Ruth Ginsberg retire, Romney nominates Clarence Thomas clones to replace them, and the FBI is freed up to spy on you full-time.

It's a free-flow of information, and in this case the exchange of ideas is a positive thing to help improve my ability to debate Republicans when the time comes.

Persuade me with good arguments - not by using inflammatory words like "bashing" one candidate or another.  I don't think I'm bright enough to be shedding any new light that the Republicans will somehow magically attribute to me in the general election.

All of our candidates can always improve.  Isn't it better for the candidates to know what we (their supporters) view as their weaknesses, so that they will have time to become more appealing to us; or should they blindly go over the cliff and play Monday-morning quarterbacks after election day?

Everyone should always be able to freely express their opinion, and healthy debate never hurt anyone.  

Be strong my friend, because the Republicans will fight and will be a lot nastier than anything ever written on this site.