# Any Americans here planning on voting for Bush? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104 "2004-05-26T01:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/21 "2004-05-26T17:10:29Z")
I’m voting for Bush. While I certainly don’t agree with all of his policies, I find his stance on several issues preferable to what Kerry offers. I’ve never considered a third party candidate, as I’ve never agreed with anything any of them have had to say. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/22 "2004-05-26T17:39:27Z")
I’m voting for Kerry. In my entire lifetime I don’t think there’s been any other president in my lifetime with whom I’ve disagreed more completely. This long and unnecessary war in Iraq is just the Jewel in the Crown of his deeds. I find his presence in office an embarassment, and I’m getting tired of telling my foreign acquaintances that I didn’t vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/23 "2004-05-26T19:17:21Z")
Voting for Bush. Don’t think anyone really cares what my reasoning is, so I won’t bore you with it. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/24 "2004-05-26T19:39:49Z")
The title of the thread seems to be calling out to Bush supporters only… It is amazing that on this board there are still people who intend to vote for Bush. No wonder fighting ignorance is taking so long. We can’t even get our brethren here on the board to see the long term damage the Bush regime is causing. ---
**Author:** ![Padmaraga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Padmaraga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padmaraga)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/25 "2004-05-26T19:47:37Z")
Probably. “Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” I have seen nothing from Kerry that makes me think he’ll do a better job. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/26 "2004-05-26T19:48:35Z")
I want to vote for Bush, but so far he isn’t giving me much of a reason to. Everything in his administration seems to be going wrong all at once. If anything, I feel sorry for Bush. However, Kerry isn’t giving me any reason to vote for him either with his lack of plan for the country and his flipflopping on issues. What a way to spend my first election where I’m old enough to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/27 "2004-05-26T19:50:59Z")
Not trying to be a smartass, I promise, but what _non_-Americans are going to vote for Bush? 😉 I’m voting for him, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/28 "2004-05-26T22:05:08Z")
I have my bad feelings about Iraq in general too (although it seems that Bush partly was fooled in a way that any president might be). I just can’t get over the hump to vote for someone who has Ted Kennedy as a major sponsor. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/29 "2004-05-26T22:24:39Z")
I’m voting for Bush. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/30 "2004-05-26T22:31:13Z")
I’m voting for Bush too. Again. A fool is (marginally) better than a madman. Although the sick little part of me that finds perverse pleasure in accumulating snowfall totals during blizards and rising gas prices does wonder what handbasket we’d be taking to hell if Kerry does win… Maybe in 4 more years we can get someone _good_ to run on either side. I know what you’re thinking, but alas, I still won’t be old enough to run in 2008 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/31 "2004-05-26T22:35:16Z")
> [@Bruce\_Daddy](#): > > Not trying to be a smartass, I promise, but what _non_-Americans are going to vote for Bush? 😉 You’re right. The Dems want the non-American vote. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/32 "2004-05-27T00:37:57Z")
As tempting as it is to get people like **DMark** annoyed at me, I plan to vote for Kerry. But my Mom is probably going to vote for Bush because, relatively liberal as she is (an old-school Repub whose views were formed in the early 60’s), Kerry is pretty much Distilled Essence o’ Democrat, embodying many of the policies she’s disagreed with over the years. Dad’s on the fence. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/33 "2004-05-27T00:44:47Z")
> [@Bruce\_Daddy](#): > > Not trying to be a smartass, I promise, but what _non_-Americans are going to vote for Bush? 😉 Just my little dig at the endless threads that assume that everyone here is American, or lives under American law, etc 😉 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/34 "2004-05-27T01:01:45Z")
Remember: this thread, just like the earlier one that reported an 82% Kerry “victory” has absolutely NOTHING to do with predicting the actual outcome of the November Presidential Election. In fact, it can’t even accurately determine what the prevailing mood on the SDMB is–much less the entire nation. One of those 3rd grade contests where the teacher asks the kids to vote for president would be more accurate in predicting the actual outcome than a thread like this. Those that say this Board is liberally-slanted based on the response here or in that other thread are really showing their ignorance of statistical method. And I’ve noticed an odd thing-- those who put any value whatsoever in “polls” like this or the previous one on the SDMB, are usually some of the same people who dismiss legitimate polls with statements like, “Well… no one \*\*I \*\* know was asked, so it **can’t** be accurate!” ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/35 "2004-05-27T01:08:55Z")
> [@I Love Me](#): > > Remember: this thread, just like the earlier one that reported an 82% Kerry “victory” has absolutely NOTHING to do with predicting the actual outcome of the November Presidential Election. Did anyone say it did? The only reason I started it was, given the amount of anti-Bush feelings floating around here, I was wondering if there was _any_ regular contributors who would stand up and defend him. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/36 "2004-05-27T01:29:54Z")
Gonna have to go with Dubya. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/37 "2004-05-27T01:55:03Z")
> [@The Man With The Golden Gun](#): > > What a way to spend my first election where I’m old enough to vote. Don’t feel too bad. I got stuck with Bush vs. Gore. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/38 "2004-05-27T06:58:02Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Did anyone say it did? The only reason I started it was, given the amount of anti-Bush feelings floating around here, I was wondering if there was _any_ regular contributors who would stand up and defend him. Just remember, 50% of any group is below average… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/39 "2004-05-27T06:59:07Z")
Bush, but mostly because the issues that matter to me aren’t the same issues covered by the news media. ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/40 "2004-05-27T07:48:17Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I’m voting for Bush. I voted Libertarian last time, but when it gets right down to it, we’re in a war, and I need to vote for the man I think is best going to win this war, not go crawling on his belly to the UN, asking for forgiveness. > > The rest of it, Social Security reform, tax cuts, etc, can come after we win the war. They won’t matter much if we don’t win. I’m curious which war you’re referring to. If it’s the war in Iraq, we won that already. Toppled statues, eliminated the government, all that stuff. If it’s the War on Terror, the administration has told us that it’s “generational”. I’m not sure if putting off “the rest of it” for several generations is really a good idea. I’m sure you have other reasons for voting for Bush that make more sense. Use those instead, eh? As for myself, I’m not voting for Bush. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104.md?page=3)