# What do you dislike most about your preferred candidate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 21, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793 "2016-04-21T06:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/1 "2016-04-21T06:38:24Z")
I’m a Hillary supporter, by default. Meaning, I really dislike all the others so much that I’ll hold my nose and vote for her. But the one thing I really dislike about her is that she’s never challenged the basic assertions of Sanders. She’s allowed him to set the agenda of all the debates. Example: She’s never challenged his constant attacks on Wall Street and the upper 1%. She’s never pointed out that Wall Street is a necessary driving force in the success of the U.S. economy, and that most of the people in Wall Street are not crooks. Nor are the top 1%. She’s never pointed out that most wealthy people acquired their wealth through honest hard work, and never ripped off the working/middle class. I’m not here to debate this. I’m just asking what you dislike most about the candidate you’re supporting. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/2 "2016-04-21T07:28:33Z")
Sanders supporter here. My biggest disagreement no doubt is Sanders’s stance in favour of legalized abortion on demand. After that probably his opposition to nuclear power. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/3 "2016-04-21T10:24:23Z")
Hillary: Not charismatic, or inspirational – except in the sense that raw accomplishment is inspirational. Her pragmatism may dominate her idealism a bit too much. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/4 "2016-04-21T11:20:46Z")
Hillary might be the worst public speaker nominee since Mike Dukakis. I can agree with her 95% of the time, but her voice is like nails on a chalkboard and her speeches are lifeless and uninspiring. If you could combine Obama’s oratory with Hillary’s policy wonkiness, you’d have the second coming of FDR. She’ll be an utterly competent president, but as soon as she opens her mouth you can’t wait for her to shut up. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/5 "2016-04-21T11:44:09Z")
John Kasich is a career politician. His only private sector experience is of the “cashing in” variety that he did between the House and becoming governor. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/6 "2016-04-21T11:57:16Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > John Kasich is a career politician. His only private sector experience is of the “cashing in” variety that he did between the House and becoming governor. To be fair, private sector experience is utterly worthless when running a government. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/7 "2016-04-21T12:39:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m a Hillary supporter, by default. Meaning, I really dislike all the others so much that I’ll hold my nose and vote for her. > > But the one thing I really dislike about her is that she’s never challenged the basic assertions of Sanders. She’s allowed him to set the agenda of all the debates. > > Example: She’s never challenged his constant attacks on Wall Street and the upper 1%. She’s never pointed out that Wall Street is a necessary driving force in the success of the U.S. economy, and that most of the people in Wall Street are not crooks. Nor are the top 1%. She’s never pointed out that most wealthy people acquired their wealth through honest hard work, and never ripped off the working/middle class. > > I’m not here to debate this. I’m just asking what you dislike most about the candidate you’re supporting. I won’t debate your claims about Wall Street and the 1% and so on, but I’d like to debate your dislike of how she doesn’t challenge what Sanders says about 'em. I figure she’s been thinking as follows: 1. I’m comfortably ahead on points, and so just have to not lose; 2. So if he wants to start an argument about this, I just have to _not bother_… 3. …and then I get the nomination, radiating blandly reassuring competence. 4. Maybe I’ll be comfortably ahead on points against the Republican candidate? 5. If so, I’ll do my best to not lose: shrugging whenever I don’t need to argue. 6. If _not,_ well, then, like, Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning. If I’m right, it seems like it’s working, in which case I can’t really fault her for it. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/8 "2016-04-21T13:53:31Z")
I’m a Hillary supporter, I wish she’d defend TPP and NAFTA. Trade deals are an overall economic good thing but I know that’s a hard sell to poorly educated blue collar workers. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/9 "2016-04-21T13:58:31Z")
Trump: views on abortion and on global warming. I also don’t agree with ban on Muslims but it’s not a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/10 "2016-04-21T14:02:51Z")
Hillary comes off as unlikeable. Its a problem that women have, and I disklike myself for disliking her, but I do. I know a woman who actually knows her (as in, has had meals with her, has sat next to in conferences, can get Hillary to take her phone calls - my friend is a reproductive rights mover and shaker at a national level), and says she is really different in person on an intimate level. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/11 "2016-04-21T14:10:15Z")
Her husband. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/12 "2016-04-21T14:11:22Z")
Hillary’s charisma gap doesn’t bother me as much as her hawkishness. I don’t think it’s from a conscious decision to project strength as much as a genuine belief in the ability of military intervention to bring positive change, a notion that’s proven, shall we say … problematic. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/13 "2016-04-21T14:46:11Z")
He’s losing. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/14 "2016-04-21T14:54:24Z")
That she won’t defend centrism on stage and is trying to placate the crazies on the left about things like “white privilege,” aspects of “feminism” (like the so-called campus rape “epidemic”) things like Radical Islam Terror (tho to her credit 10 years ago, she used the term Islamic terror) and Syrian refugees. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/15 "2016-04-21T14:57:55Z")
Sanders use of made up economics to support his agenda, as well as his lack of admission that he can’t actually do much as president without congressional assistance, which isn’t going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/16 "2016-04-21T15:14:25Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I’m a Hillary supporter, I wish she’d defend TPP and NAFTA. Trade deals are an overall economic good thing but I know that’s a hard sell to poorly educated blue collar workers. This is what I was coming in here to say. But, I’ll take a broader view, on things TPP and $15 minimum wage, I wish Clinton was less of a calculating politician who tends to shift her public views based on popular currents. I mean, I can see where she gives herself a bit of wiggle room on both, but still. I’d much rather her talk about how it is her ultimate aspiration to get to X, but we need to take steps to get there, and she’s proposing those steps (as opposed to just saying, I’m for X too). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/17 "2016-04-21T16:50:52Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 1. If _not,_ well, then, like, Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning. That’s absolutely classic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/18 "2016-04-21T17:15:24Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Hillary comes off as unlikeable. Its a problem that women have, and I disklike myself for disliking her, but I do. That’s not a problem that women have, its a problem that Hillary has. End of sentence. My biggest gripe with my preferred candidate is that he isn’t running any more. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/19 "2016-04-21T17:35:37Z")
I dont like Hilary’s support of meaningless gun controls. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793/20 "2016-04-21T17:37:45Z")
I have switched to Cruz now, and I don’t like how he handled the government shutdown a couple years ago. He acted selfishly and put his own needs above that of the party. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-dislike-most-about-your-preferred-candidate/752793.md?page=2)