(December 15, 2011 at 4:28 pm)ReB Wrote: This isn't a thread where you gimi that bullshit, I don't have to tell you. I would like everyone to tell me who your voting for and why. I'd say Ron Paul myself, but I'm too young to vote. This guy has his shit straight. Thinking smaller government, but he seems like the right type of guy who could have more power without going all... Nixon on our asses. Am I right? Why? Why not? Please tell me.
I'm voting for Obama because a lackluster might-as-well-be-a-republican Democrat is better than all of the republican contendors combined. I mean, just look at them. Michelle Bachman was once leading the polls. Newt Gingritch is now leading the polls.
That's just awful.
I would also do so in the hopes for a democratic majority to regain control of both the senate and the house so things can at least move forward, although I anticipate that if the republicans were in the minority again, the democrats would basically give them enough power to gridlock congress... again.
That is to say taht there is no hope for congress but a bunch of spineless democrats in control might at least give the American people a chance in hell.
However, I will say that I would vote for John Huntsman if he somehow becomes the nominee because although I don't agree with some of his policies, I agree with a surprisingly large number of them (particularly when it comes to his ideas for the big banks and corruption in washington). I would vote for him in the hopes that he does more than Obama has so far in alleviating that corruption.
On that note, I *may* also vote for Ron Paul for the same reason. The Fed and the Pentagon both need to be auditted and despite the many things I don't like about him, some of the things he wants to do are things that I greatly agree with - including his foreign policies of getting the fuck out of dodge.
I'm not that interested in his libertarian domestic policies, but if he can step in and do something about the corruption in washington, that's enough for me.
Otherwise, Obama is the superior candidate because I'm still with him on most of his views. All he needs to do is follow up on them and stop giving so many gimmies to the republicans.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
