Candidate qualification

[Chanileslie]

I have been hesistant to post something of this nature because I know how down right nasty these political threads can get, but I would like to know, so please, I beg of you, leave the bickering, nastiness, name calling and ad hominem attacks out of this thread!

I want your opinion!

What is it that makes you not like Kerry as a candidate?

What is it that makes you not like Bush as a candidate?

How about the Libertarian presidential candidate?

Any others that I might have missed?

Also, what do you like about each candidate?

Please be specific. I am trying to make an informed decision here, but I am tired of hearing reasons like, "Because He's a politician" or "Because he is one of THEM." Also, please refrain from character assasinations of the candidate. I want to know issues and facts and what it is that doesn't appeal to you. If Iwant to hear character assasinations, I will turn on my TV.

Also, fill out my little poll for who you are voting.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Chanileslie]

Okay, from the lack of response, I take it nobody who has viewed this knows why they like or don't like a particular candidate. Oh well.

 

[shanek]

I can tell you exactly why I am supporting and voting for Badnarik, and I can do it without mentioning any other candidates (I challenge others to phrase their support for their candidates in such a manner, too; I'm sick and tired of this lesser-of-two-evils crap):

1) The guy actually understands the Constitution and is willing to stand by it
2) He has displayed both intelligence and the willingness to admit when he is wrong
3) He has the support of many people with expertise in many different areas, from foreign to monetary policy, and can put together probably the best cabinet we've seen in ages
4) He has shown a willingness to stand up for our rights, even at his own personal risk
5) He's willing to debate anyone at any time, and he's bloody good at it, too
6) He isn't willing at all to take anyone else's property by force or abrogate their rights in any way to do the things he wants to get done

I could keep going, but I think that's enough for now. Let's hear from others!

 

[Patrick]

What is it that makes you not like Kerry as a candidate?

1. He's power hungry. In a way similar to Bubba Clinton's career, everything he's done for a very long time, from his fake combat films in vietnam, to his attempt to steal a Boston official's job, to marrying wealthy women apparently to get his hands on big bucks to finance his campaigns, to his endless flipflops to be in sync with whichever way the political winds are blowing today, he appears to be oriented toward one thing - an obsession with political power.

2. His passing along the tales of alleged widespread war crimes from the "Winter Soldier Investigation", later shown to be completely bogus, to the congress in the most public of settings, revealed him to be either a champion liar or extremely credulous, neither quality being acceptable in a president.

3. He's "still in vietnam" as the old song goes. During the 1980's, as a congressman, he was one of the leftwing congressmen who signed the infamous "Dear Commandante" letters to Daniel Ortega, the marxist dictator of Nicaragua at the time, and voted against a bill to fund the Nicarguan resistance, what the Sandanistas and the U.S. liberal press called the "Contras". He took part in an ass-kissing visit to "El Commandate", saying that the U.S. was going to get "involved in another Vietnam". Due to the pressure of the Resistance, the Sandanistas finally allowed an election, which of course they lost, and now Nicaragua is democratic, no thanks to Lurch. At a time when the U.S. is threatened by the completely new antisymmetric warfare of a clandestine worldwide group of fascists, we can't afford a president who still thinks of everything as "another vietnam". He's not "fighting the last war" - he'd fight a war about three wars back. The liberal/left politicians like him view the Al Qaeda threat and fighting it in two ways - "another vietnam", or the "bringinging osama to justice" ordinary criminal view - both frightening disconnects from the real world in 2004.

4. Quite simply he is a leftwing liberal. He sees government the way moslems see their religion - something that should pervasively affect and control every aspect of a person's life. He has visions of huge new government spending. He'll do nothing to stop the current projects of the liberal/left: the destruction by a thousand cuts of the constitution; the stacking of the supreme court with liberal/left members, allowing the flood of illegal aliens that is destroying and balkanizing american life and culture, destroying american identity and wealth; imposing the political correctness tyranny that controls how people think, politicizes the very language, and is quickly converting U.S. universities into fascist redoubts.

 

[crimresearch]

Kerry...I'm still waiting for anything substantive and *current* to seep out from under the cloud of misdirection about long ago events...I would very much like to hear details on how he plans to implement the 'Two Americas' agenda if given power over all of America. The 'those who aren't with us aren't real Americans' and similar 'Us vs. Them' themes from the convention makes me uneasy.
As a minority, I get very nervous when Democrats have too much power.

Bush, I'm not at all comfortable with the administration's attempts to legislate morality, or patriotism, OR security...I don't see any evidence of their learning from mistakes, or even admitting to them.
As someone who is on the bottom of the economic heap, I get nervous when the Republicans have too much power.


The Libertarians could have had Ron Paul, or someone far less...'remarkable'...than the candidate that they did choose.
I'm not at all nervous, because I see zero chance for the LP to have too much power...but if they did, I would be very, very, nervous.

 

[DoubleStreamer]

I'm not at all nervous, because I see zero chance for the LP to have too much power...but if they did, I would be very, very, nervous.

Would that be because of "the stated libertarian promises to lock people up and seize property in the name of liberty" that you referred to a while back?

 

[Tony]

I'm not at all nervous, because I see zero chance for the LP to have too much power...but if they did, I would be very, very, nervous.

I'm sure there were also plenty of racist whites who were "nervous" at the idea of blacks being freed from slavery.

 

[shanek]

I'm sure there were also plenty of racist whites who were "nervous" at the idea of blacks being freed from slavery.

Of course there were. That's why we have marriage licenses and gun control laws.