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Originally Posted by Jim
That is one of my biggest fears. Except, what if the republicans do run McCain and the Democrats run Hillary? McCain is actually liked by most people on both sides. He has the military record and as you say he tries to practice democracy. Just being a Republican will be enough for Republicans. And not being a woman and seeming to be a good, fair man would be enough for a lot of Democrats.
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This is exactly what it looks like is going to be the case. IMHO, the only hope is a new horse down the line. This is the first election in a long, long, long, time that didn't have a standing Pres or past VP running so the field is wide open.
I think the US would vote for the right woman. I admire and like Hillary a lot but she is not that woman. Someone along the lines of a Madeline Albright would be stellar (but she wasn't born here).
And what the heck is all this about McCain in every media outlet? He's the same creep the rest of them are. OK, fought in battle, sometimes in opposition to the evil empire, a tobacco chewer (makes him kind of folksy doesn't it? I can't wait to see the spitoon next to the debate lectern). Even if he is Mr. Clean (which he's not), he knows all the other bullshit that's been going on and he has to participate to be a player. Nothing worse in my book than a gangster that pretends he's not (or one that's not and pretends he is). John McCain... NEXT!
However, I would get out the vote for any candidate that had one of two platforms either of which I think would be killer apps.
1. Platform is singularly to undo everything that Bush has done to the best of my ability (obviously Supreme Court is lost, whatever).
2. Platform that promises to do nothing or dedicates itself to eliminating millions of useless, bothersome, intrusive, ridiculous, laws, regulations and committes that have accumulated over the last 40 years. We all clean out our closets sometime don't we? Just leave us alone, send the money back (we'll pay shipping) and let the states handle it (sounds like the OLD republican platform doesn't it).
Lets start debating about what we don't need rather than more of what we do, because what we got isn't cool at all.
Finally, if your candidate is already a millionaire when he runs and you vote for him/her then you get what you got coming. If they're of average means, then at least its pretty easy to figure out when they or their posse has gone bad! Election financing won't let the average joe rise to the top? Probably right... see platform #2.
I remember reading that in the forties and fifties many states had little write-in protest spots for the voter and these were actually tabulated and published as kind of a quirk. These were eliminated because Mickey Mouse was getting an embarrassingly high number of votes. Maybe this should come back just to get a point across.