Just Got my Ballot....Kerry or Bush?

If you even hint @ voting for GWB on this board, you are a dead man/woman . I am now totally apolitical but I give you this advice as a fair warning. Vote for whoever you want but if it is GWB do not mention it here or you will be ostracized unmercifully

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Not true, Mr. Roxy, and I offer up the examples of papalovesmambo and LadyGenevere as proof.

Oh PLEASSSSE...I would rather have 4 root canals then ever vote Republican........KERRY ALL THE WAY FOR ME!!!!

Don't tell her who to vote for.

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Sure, if by winning you mean winning some theoretical ineptitude contest.

Let's get rid of the guy who forgot Afghanistan (the actual terrorist center) to go nation-building in Iraq. Let's get rid of the homophobe with bad economic policies, worse environmental policies, and a tendency to whore himself shamelessly to corporations. And let's get rid of the guy who's about as "compassionate" as a pice of plywood, and who follos true conservatism only when it suits him.

To be fair, Bush had a small share in a lumber company. Kerry didn't explain his point there all too well.

But, if you really want to be fair, Bush was being (at the very least) disingenuous and deceptive with his "who me?" reply.

Oh PLEASSSSE...I would rather have 4 root canals then ever vote Republican........KERRY ALL THE WAY FOR ME!!!!

Now, this isn't meant to pick on Kristie-K2 in specific, but it's just that she is the most recent person out of MANY people on these boards to say something like this. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I can't understand how someone can say something like that. A good voter, in my opinion, looks at both sides and then makes his or her decision. To say you would never vote for the other party just makes no sense. All that does is show that you're completely biased before the issues are even discussed. The whole point of these debates and things is so that a person can sit down, look at both sides and weigh the candidates views. So many people on this site are saying that they are going to vote one way or the other just because of the party affiliation and really, how good of a voting method is that? If everyone voted for the same party every single time there would be no point in even having elections because the turn out would be the same year after year.

I'm not saying anyone has to change their votes or that anyone doesn't have a reason for picking who they pick. I just think its a stupid thing to say you'd never vote for another party just because you don't agree with them at this exact moment. Party platforms change, just look at American political history. Parties come in and out of favor, change their stances, develop new ones, come in and out of existance. The informed voter is supposed to always look at both sides. Blindly voting for a party isn't going to do either side any good.

Again, do what you want, but I just don't see how so many people can act like just because a person votes one way or another they can never get along. The country is way too polarized in their beliefs and sometimes I think they need to seriously see that the whole point of elections is to look at both sides every time. Just because you agree with one party now doesn't mean it'll always be the right one. It is impossible to accurately state that either political party is 100% correct.

*end christine's rant*

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bythesword is right. Never say Never. You are fine to say I will never vote for Bush, but don't say I won't vote Republican. After all there are a few nice ones out there.

I wish I could vote but alas I am only 17 and not considered an adult by this country. You know the margin by which Kerry would win if 17 year olds could vote.

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Alot of the people on this board are very young and do not realized what happened in the 80's.....with the aids crisis...I knew twenty beautiful lovely men die a horrible death....and I mean horrible......One after another....I weep to this day....especially on Dec 1 (World Aids Day).....The Republican party seem very homophobic.......wanting to pass laws against Gay people.......On my ballot there is a Gay amendment...WHY?....Until the Repubicans can get their **** together....I will vote independent or democrat......Please vote who you want to vote for....Just Vote!!!!!this is just one of many reasons why I am voting for Kerry!!!

Some of the most decent Republicans are right in the tri-state area. I think I would have voted for Bloomberg over Green if I lived in NYC. Though Bloomberg is a fake Republican, so that's a bad example.

It's a DAMN shame that we can't vote NEITHER!!! Give me a different choice!!
A third Party for the Love of GOD!!!!!!

Any other libertarians on the board? Huh?
Yeah, didn't think so....

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don't know if that one was a reply to me- but that post seemed to be about bush. i was asking about reagan, because i wasn't really around much in his term. thanks though