# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/41 "2004-05-27T09:49:10Z")
I’ll vote for Bush as the lesser of two evils. ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/42 "2004-05-27T15:41:24Z")
I see myself voting for Bush at this juncture, but I’ll know for sure when I push the button. The one thing I know for sure is that I’ll be voting for ABK (anybody but Kerry). Jammer ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/43 "2004-05-27T20:05:13Z")
Another ABK here. Bush still leading the remaining candidates ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/44 "2004-05-28T13:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t feel too bad. I got stuck with Bush vs. Gore. Hah! Try this one on for size: Ford v. Carter. For those who think there couldn’t be a worse thing than Bush, let me remind you that in 1976 we voted in President James “Jimmy” Carter – a man whose heart was as pure as anyone you could ever meet – based largely on the notion that “Anybody is better than that crook, Richard Nixon.” Unfortunately, despite the country’s high hopes, Carter was the most ineffective president of my generation. Carter’s waffling on issues and his ineffectiveness at aligning ANYONE, his own party included, to his game plan led the USA to double digit inflation, massive unemployment, gas lines, and despite his best efforts to bring peace, turmoil in the middle east which led to Iranian insurgents storming our embassy and taking our citizens hostage. Four years later we voted Ron Reagan into office on the notion that “Gosh, a shark _is_ better than an amoeba at running things.” And we enjoyed 8 years of relative peace and prosperity until the country was forced, via a constitutional amendment, to replace the shark with a remora. No doubt, we’re stuck with a crappy choice this November. However, if you are under the delusion that a man with no opinion is automatically better than an opinionated man with whom you don’t agree, you could very well be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![P\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@P\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P_T)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/45 "2004-05-28T13:49:01Z")
> [@Zap\_Rowsdower](#): > > No way I will vote for Bush. On the other hand I don’t think I can bring myself to vote for Kerry either. I’m afraid that is how everyone I know feels. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/46 "2004-05-28T14:19:07Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > 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. Defend him? No. He is a mess as a President, and I abhor the religious-right that he has associated himself with. But Kerry? No way in hell! ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/47 "2004-05-28T14:31:01Z")
I will vote for Bush (assuming no major shifts happen between now and the election). He’s not as fiscally conservative as I would like, but he’s still far preferrable to Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/48 "2004-05-28T14:36:35Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > 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. I know, I know… You lefties shriek about how evil the current administration is in Bush bashing thread after thread. Yet, still there are some who have the nerve to disagree with your view! It must be horribly frustrating. The obvious solution is to post more Bush bashing threads. That’ll win us all over! ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/49 "2004-05-28T15:06:02Z")
I’m voting for Kerry. Most educators in FL don’t like either the Shrub (Dubya) or the Hedge (Jeb) because of their “education” plan. I’ll be happy with being graded as a teacher when I get the opportunity to grade the PARENTS. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Ann\_Thrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Ms\_Ann\_Thrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Ann_Thrope)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/50 "2004-05-28T15:56:03Z")
I don’t like Kerry, but I’ll probably vote for him since my dislike for him pales in comparison to the shame and revulsion I feel when I think of the Bush/Cheney administration. I’ve already been compiling sites on moving overseas. Should Bush win again I will probably leave this country… I haven’t been proud to be an American for a very long time. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/51 "2004-05-28T16:23:03Z")
> [@Ms Ann Thrope](#): > > I’ve already been compiling sites on moving overseas. Should Bush win again I will probably leave this country… I haven’t been proud to be an American for a very long time. ☹ I’m still waiting for the entertainment industry people, who made this statement in 2000, to clear out. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/52 "2004-05-28T17:07:48Z")
Count me in the ‘hell no’ catagory. I recently operated a camera for the local repub debates. It took all my willpower not to burst out laughing at the ‘toe the party line’ bull they were spouting. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/53 "2004-05-28T17:16:26Z")
Yes, I plan on voting for Bush. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/54 "2004-05-28T18:14:11Z")
I plan on voting for Bush, if only to cancle out some dead guy’s vote. Of course, in 2000 Illinois managed to ‘lose’ my voter registration… ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/55 "2004-05-28T18:39:52Z")
I have been a Republican since I could register. I have voted party slates in every election since. I was a Bush supporter and voter in 2000. I was pro-war in Afghanistan, and pro-war in Iraq. Until now. I am a single-issue voter this year, based on War Justification. G.W. clumsily built a case and strategy for war on Iraq that was foolhardy at best, and outright false at worst. I’m not too thrilled at his domestic decisions, either. He can shove that $300 check I got from the Treasury, and invest in speaking lessons. I don’t feel disillusioned, I feel _betrayed_\*. And I think everyone else in the GOP should feel that way too. My state will go solidly Democrat in 2004, just like always. This time I will mournfully be on their side. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/56 "2004-05-28T20:50:42Z")
> [@Padmaraga](#): > > 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. I don’t think it’s technically possible to do a worse one. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/57 "2004-05-28T21:03:12Z")
> [@LuckySevens](#): > > It’ll be a close election though, remember Kerry hasn’t really started his election campaign and Bush barely has. Barely? How much has he spent already… $128 million or some such insanity? And I can’t wait to see what he runs on. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/58 "2004-05-28T22:20:28Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > And I can’t wait to see what he runs on. Probably a combination of “Only _I_ can save you from the evil freedom-lovin’ terrorists” and “No matter how bad I’ve f\*\*ked things up, John Kerry will do worse” …a tactic which seems to have suckered a few folks in this thread already. 🙂 ---
**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 28, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/59 "2004-05-28T22:33:29Z")
> [@Kakkerlak](#): > > And I think everyone else in the GOP should feel that way too. [python] “We are all individuals!” [/python] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/60 "2004-05-29T14:45:35Z")
This will be the first presidential election I can vote in as well…I will definitely not be voting for Bush, but I am not really sure about Kerry either, but there is still a bit of time till November so we shall see. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104.md?page=4)