Warning: Politics ahead

[bathalamus]

I am by nature scornful and cynical about politicians.  My voting record has always been who to vote against, not who to vote for.  I have always gone with the lesser of evils approach.  Or occasionally the greater of the evils, when I supported Cthulhu for President in 2004.  Sadly, my favored candidate slept through the elections, and thus was

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[montieth]

But he's just a nice guy. He's been in the senate less than a term. He has less experience than Cynthia Mckinney. And he thinks that giving licenses to illegal aliens is a positive step towards solving the immigration problem.

You're practically a viking, you should like someone who is a bit more hawkish than a friendly golden retriever..

[bathalamus]

Technically, I am not even close to a viking (unless you count the fact that I married one). I am of Scottish and Russian descent. *grin*

[montieth]

I am of Scottish and Russian descent. *grin*

Those are Still stalwart folk who shouldn't like mamby pamby 21st century Democrats who can't win a war if their opponent was 16th century France and they were running 1940s Germany.

[bathalamus]

So who do you think I should vote for, Guiliani?

[montieth]

I don't trust Guliani. He hasn't stuck to his guns (literally).

Thompson is my pick based on record (pretty consistent), attitude (he argues well on the constitutional front for why he voted a certain way), experience (several terms in the senate and he walked away at his high point) AND personality (hawkish and an elder statesman). If we had the democrats of 30 years ago or even JFK, I'd be happy with them but they're nowhere near JFK as witnessed with how they can't even let us finish a fight without wanting to pull another Vietnam endgame.

Ron Paul I like on the domestic front but can't stand his foreign policy. Even Jefferson knew we couldn't be isolationist when our trade was affected and he went to war over it. Jefferson was the last founding father you'd expect to go to war and he was adamant about going after the Barbary city states.Today, isolationism works even less than it did in the '30s.