# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/61 "2004-05-29T16:32:15Z")
This will be my first chance to vote for president as well. If I had to vote _right now_, I’d go with Bush, but I’ll wait and see. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/62 "2004-05-29T19:42:14Z")
I’m still undecided but Bush is a serious possibility. If Rumsfeld does get the axe, and is replaced by someone I respect, then most likely I will go with Bush. If Rummy keeps his job then I really don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/63 "2004-05-30T04:22:12Z")
> [@flickster](#): > > I’m still waiting for the entertainment industry people, who made this statement in 2000, to clear out. Oh, don’t you know? The leftist response to this is " They said they’d leave if Bush was elected, but since he _stole_ the election…" :rolleyes: If Bush wins this election by a landslide, I’ll start collecting donations to help them hire movers. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/64 "2004-05-30T06:11:10Z")
> [@Ms Ann Thrope](#): > > 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. ☹ Just curious what you consider a very long time. Bush has been in office 3 years. I hardly consider that a very long time. Maybe you can hitch a ride with Alec Baldwin. He’s got the cash to set you up for awhile. Erm…uh, wait… :rolleyes: Voting for Bush again ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/65 "2004-05-30T06:14:52Z")
> [@HomeOfTheBraves](#): > > 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. Huh, name-calling from a teacher of young kids. Maybe the parents sometimes do need to know just whom they entrust children to. And damnit, **Flickster** , you typed faster than I could preview! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lynwood\_Slim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Lynwood\_Slim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynwood_Slim)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/66 "2004-05-30T06:21:51Z")
Noam Chomsky referred to Kerry as Bush-lite. I agree. I keep waiting for some really substantial difference between the two – not Kerry’s rhetoric, shouting, promises, accusations all seemingly based, paradoxically, in Bush’s incompetence and omnipotence (Bush is responsible for gas prices; Bush is responsible for Europeans not going into Iraq, Bush is responsible . . . ) Despite clumsiness and missed steps, I fundamentally agree with most of this administrations stands, and until I hear some true difference in future policy from Kerry that might change my mind, I am voting for Bush. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/67 "2004-05-30T15:58:31Z")
_sigh_ five more months of this. Can’t we – win or lose for our side – whichever side that is – just have the election now and be done with it? ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/68 "2004-05-30T16:12:36Z")
**squeegee** , we’re riding the same bus. This process is entirely too drawn out. Maybe it made sense in the days when news traveled slowly and decisions were made based on a single stump speach. But in today’s mass-media/internet world, this drawn out schedule is nuts. I’d like to see the entire process take no more than 3 months. Do we really need the party conventions any more? I think not. 6 weeks for primaries, general election 6 weeks later. Done. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/69 "2004-05-30T17:52:55Z")
Here are the rules from here on: 1. Post here if you are planning to vote for Bush. _Period_. Breaking this rule will get you an official warning. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/70 "2004-05-31T03:35:50Z")
Yes, I’ll be voting for Bush. ---
**Author:** ![iamme99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@iamme99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamme99)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/71 "2004-05-31T03:57:55Z")
I ain’t voting for the shrub again! :eek: Here’s [1,170 reasons why you shouldn’t vote for the shrub either!](http://irregulartimes.com/bootbush.html) ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/72 "2004-05-31T05:39:22Z")
Sigh…, I don’t like Bush, but will be voting for the lesser of two evils (imho). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/73 "2004-05-31T06:45:37Z")
> [@iamme99](#): > > I ain’t voting for the shrub again! :eek: > > Here’s [1,170 reasons why you shouldn’t vote for the shrub either!](http://irregulartimes.com/bootbush.html) _sigh_ You were warned about this, and yet you persist. Do not break the rules again, _please_. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/74 "2004-05-31T07:12:45Z")
I will vote for Bush. Two or three times, if all goes according to plan! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iamme99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@iamme99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamme99)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/75 "2004-05-31T08:05:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _sigh_ > You were warned about this, and yet you persist. Do not break the rules again, _please_. Huh? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/76 "2004-05-31T08:27:30Z")
> [@iamme99](#): > > Huh? **Czar** , check the location. Maybe some of the “air” from Oregon has reached him? Maybe he’s slow on the uptake? That or tear him a new asshole. Again, not only voting for Bush, I’ve already donated $400 so far to the campaign. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iamme99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@iamme99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamme99)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/77 "2004-05-31T10:25:00Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > **Czar** , check the location. Maybe some of the “air” from Oregon has reached him? Maybe he’s slow on the uptake? > > That or tear him a new asshole. Yeah slick, I’m slow on the uptake. It’s a birth defect. Please enlighten me. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/78 "2004-05-31T11:42:14Z")
Yes, I will be voting for Bush. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/79 "2004-05-31T12:11:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Here are the rules from here on: > > 1. Post here if you are planning to vote for Bush. _Period_. > > Breaking this rule will get you an official warning. **iamme99** , I am refering to this post I made just two previous to the one _you_ posted. Anyone else need an explanation? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104/80 "2004-05-31T14:26:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Here are the rules from here on: > > 1. Post here if you are planning to vote for Bush. Period. > > Breaking this rule will get you an official warning. As of this moment, I may post to this thread without receiving an official warning. However, I reserve the right to change my mind over the next five months. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-americans-here-planning-on-voting-for-bush/247104.md?page=5)