Dave Barry - he’s got the $8.95 tax plan and a great foreign policy consisting of “The Department of Two Guys Named Victor.”
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I think someone should propose a change in the constitution to allow Bill Clinton to run again. I am not interested in getting into a debate about his personal life, as I don’t consider it any of my business. I consider it his business, his wife’s business, and his daughter’s business. As I am none of those people, I decline to debate.
I do think he was a REALLY good president.
And I would vote for him.
Failing him, I would vote for Hilary.
In the REAL world, I guess I am stuck with Gore.
I don’t know.
A lot can happen in 2 years.
I didn’t like either person in 2000, but I liked Gore less then Bush, so he got my vote.
Would I vote for Bush again? Depends. Who will be running againest him? And will Bush do something that would make me not even think about voting for him again?
I can’t make a decision when given the choice “Status Quo or Option X?”, as I need to compare to two. There is always someone worse, and while I like bush less now then I did before, I can’t say his opposition will be better.
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Sorry Diceman, but pldennison is on the money. I’ll accept as the legitimate US President the candidate who secures 50% of the electoral college vote, unless you change . I’ll “dips me lid” to the candidate who can achieve that on the back of winning a magority of the eligible vote. pld’s point that it will never occur, just means this idealist’s hat stays on his noggin.
FWIW we Aussies are quite comfortable with the notion of a government being formed by the party that secures a magority of seats, but not a magority of the popular vote. It’s happened three times in the last five elections from memory.
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Anyone but Greoge W. Bush.
If the race was down to G.W. Bush and Jesse Helms, I’d already be in Canada as a newly-naturalized citizen, because by then the United States would be so deep in the crapper as to be beyond all hope.
G.W. Bush vs. Jesse Ventura, on the other hand, would be most entertaining. 
Assuming the choice is strictly Bush vs. Gore, I’d vote for Bush, in a heartbeat, despite his flaws. The earth will crash into the sun before I vote for Gore, or virtually any other Democrat.
Woolly…
You mean - gasp! - Aussies don’t whine and complain when the guy they don’t like wins according to the rules?!? Perish the thought!!
Rjung…
Just like that Baldwin shmoe, right? We all know where he’s living right now…
I disagree, although not because she’s a woman. IIRC, she’s pro-choice, so the Republicans would lose an assload of single-issue voters to Buchanan or some other upstart-party candidate.
Given the 2000 election to do over, I’d vote Nader again. While I think Gore would have been a better President than Bush, I still couldn’t bring myself to vote for him.
Dr. J
Absolutely! A warm, good-hearted man who really tried to get the Dems and 'Pubs to find common ground for the good of the country as a whole.
Clinton, again!
In 2000, I wrote “You couldn’t get me to vote for Bush if you put a gun to my head.” That has not changed.
I hope the choice is between Rudy and Hillary, except I’m not sure which one I would vote for.
I am among the few (except for the single issue folks) who understand that when you vote, you vote not for a person, but a program. One Republican is pretty much the same as another. Same with the Democrats. So it is fairly easy to decide to vote for. It comes down to how you feel about important issues. For example:
If you believe in strong laws to protect the environment, vote Democratic; if you believe that environmental questions are best handled by the market or you don’t think that this is an important issue, vote Republican.
If you think that there should be some kind of national health insurance program with government involvement, vote Democratic; if you believe the present system is ok, vote Republican.
If you think that wealthy people should pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes, vote Democratic; if you think that wealthy people are the pillars of society and should not be taxed at a higher rate and that consumers should pay most of the taxes, vote Republican.
If you think that there should be no minimum wage, vote Republican; if you think that the minimum wage should be raised, vote Democratic.
If you think abortion should be outlawed; vote Republican; if not vote Democratic.
If you think there should be prayers in the public schools, vote Republican; conrtrariwise. vote Democratic.
If you think that the role of government includes protecting the rights and health and safety of workers on the job, vote Democratic; if you don’t think so, vote Republican.
And so forth and so on.
You get the idea. It is not the person. It is his program. Why should this be so difficult? In other facets of our lives, we would not consider hanging out with people who have completely opposite views of life than we do. But in politics, we somehow think that we “like the person” or think he is “honest” when all we have to go on is propaganda generated by the candidates PR machinery. Find out what the candidates really represent. Read the program of the party he or she represents. Otherwise you get absurdities like the present situation where 70% of people in the US approve of the job Bush is doing, but the majority agree with the opposition on important questions.
How do you know this is true?
I’d vote for my mom. She’d do a much better job than any candidate I’ve seen. Why does politics have to involve politicians, darn it?
the same person I voted for 2 years ago.
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Thanks for keeping it real! Personality, charisma, nice teeth—mere smokescreens to delude the unthinking, uncritical public.
I would vote for Gore next time even though I voted for Nader last time and I’m still Green. I’m a moderate Green who believes in cooperating with Democrats for our common goal of rescuing America from the Republicans. I know Hillary isn’t going to run, but I can still dream… I totally love Hillary more than anyone else.
Who’s this Edwards fellow? What’s the big deal with him anyway?
Bush is not a real president. He doesn’t know how to be president, he hasn’t learned anything since he started, he obviously does not know what he is doing. He has no coherent foreign policy and contradicts himself from one day to the next. He’s nothing but the puppet of his daddy’s cronies and the big-money guys who put him there to serve their interests. Bush is the most pathetic excuse for a president this country has every seen. Corporate greed is running rampant as never before. The Republicans used to be a sensibly conservative party (in the days of Eisenhower or Goldwater) but have been taken over by extremist lunatics. Don’t make me sick!
I like Hanan Ashrawi for president of Palestine (why doesn’t she run?).
Do you suppose Drew Carey would run?
I would vote anti-Bush.
During the campaign, I thought he was kind of an idiot, but mostly harmless (though I didn’t vote for him then either). Since then, there have been a number of policies that have made me fear for the state of the nation, the most recent being his opting out of the International Criminal Court. I so hate this man.
Galen, I take serious issue with your assessments of Republican policy. To whit:
The RNC says:
They clearly regard it as an important issue, if less so than the Democratic Party.
Wrong:
The RNC’s and President Bush’s plan:
You are insane if you believe this.
Both parties support prayer in schools. Neither party supports forced prayer in schools.
Yeah, those mean ol’ 'Publicans want it to be 1915 again, unions to be brutally supressed, and the wealthiest five men in the country to have absolute power in government, and private armies of Pinkertons. They also support pro-eating children legislation, routinely summon Beelzebub, and run over Democrats in their enomous Lincoln SUVs.
I’ll vote for the first person who says, “I’m gonna kick ass and take names abroad, prevent further exploitation of our strategic and natural resources simply for profit, encourage penalties for corporate criminals which is proportionate to the pain and suffering they cause, pay teachers what they bleedin’ deserve and subsidize education at all stages of life, introduce an honest and fair flat income tax with credits only for the genuinely unfortunate, strongly reinforce civil rights and privacy, and chase Christianity out of the law books and back into the churches where it belongs.”
So I guess I’ll be voting for myself, 'cause nobody’s crazy enough to tell the rest of America something like that.