reality check for americans

[juvenilia]

What is your number one reason to vote for John McCain

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[jadeejf]

What is your number one reason to vote for John McCain?

I appreciate his history of standing up to his own party and a fair amount of the legislation he's sponsored (the campaign funding bill most of all), and I appreciate his choice of a running mate, despite her inexperience.

What is your number one reason to vote against John McCain?

I'm not really sure, but he seems to be doing a lot of kowtowing to the Republican party lately (voted with the party 90% of the time if I remember the stats correctly), and given their abysmal track record over the last eight years, I don't really want a Republican in office.

What is your number one reason to vote for Barack Obama?

I love his message of unity, hope and change, and that he managed to get universal healthcare for children implemented in Illinois.

What is your number one reason to vote against Barack Obama?He's got the most liberal voting record in the Senate, which doesn't always sit well with me because I'm fiscally conservative, and he has failed to nail down the specifics of

[jadeejf]

Heh- basically my number one reasons to vote against both candidates have to do with the fact that they're pretty extreme on either end of the spectrum, and I'd prefer a more moderate candidate :)

[velvatier]

really? i'm voting against both candidates as well, but i find them pretty run-of-the-mill.

[mythworker]

That noise you hear is the ghost of Al Gore wanting to show you three ghosts that will show you how eight years of responsible environmental policy would have benefitted the country (and the world).

[velvatier]

even though i dislike obama overall, i might have been able to vote for him before joe biden happened. now i think i would literally throw up in the voting booth.

[jadeejf]

Well- I guess I mean that in two different senses- Obama is very extreme to my financial conservative sensibilities, and McCain is very extreme to my socially liberal sensibilities. But then, I've yet to meet a candidate whose position I agree with 100% of the time... *sigh*

[velvatier]

in my ideal world, the libertarians and the socialists are the major parties.

[jadeejf]

Now that would be a race! :D

[conradina]

I'm curious what you appreciate about McCain's choice of running mate... she strikes me as equally or more extreme as McCain on social matters.

[juvenilia]

that's what she appreciates.

[conradina]

I guess I'm still confused b/c it seemed like she'd prefer more moderate choices (from both sides), but Palin doesn't strike me as a moderating influence.

[juvenilia]

it's a christian thing.

[pickledherring]

I really don't think that was fair. Funny, but not true in this case.

[juvenilia]

was actually refering to her liking of gov sarah's anti-choice stance. from her journal.

[pickledherring]

I must have missed the part in that post where she said "it's a christian thing" regarding being pro-life and then baa'd her little head off.

[juvenilia]

she didn't. i was wildly lumping you all together :(

and i absolutely know that it's not everyone who feels that way, but it has been my experience, OVERWHELMINGLY, especially lately, that people who are into republican candidates cite "they will ban abortion" as one of their big issues and i really just don't think it should be ranked that highly.

it's someone's personal decision about what to do with their body. and when people tell me "i'm against abortion because it's destroying a life" and then say "i support capital punishment" that's the point at which we usually stop speaking civilly.