Howard Dean

I'm pretty much of the opinion that 'whoever is likely to win in 2004' should get the nomination. But, I do like a guy who says this:

"Anti-gay [Republican] lawmakers in the House have also presented amendments to repeal the civil unions law without providing any replacement system. In both versions printed this week, a provision called on the state to prohibit same-sex marriage and declare same-sex sexual unions to be "health hazards, contrary to public policy."

Dean told reporters Wednesday that what he heard angered him. "Years from now when people read that legislation it's going to look like it would for us to go back to the 1830s in the south and read about slave owners," he said."

(Note that's from 2001)