I'm not voting for Bush, but I can give you four random sane reasons to do so:
1) A friend of a friend in NYC says "Under Bush, there's at least a 10% lower chance of NY getting nuked. Therefore, even though I completely disagree with him on almost everything else, I'm voting Bush." (Personally, I have doubts that Bush's approach decreases the odds of NYC getting nuked within the next 100 years, but that's just me.)
2) Kerry is way scarier than Bush on fiscal policy. His disclaimer that everything is "just fine" with Social Security, for example. (Me, I figure a republican congress and a democratic whitehouse will help rein in most of the excesses. But he still gives me the heeby-geebies on this, and it is almost enough to vote AGAINST him.)
3) You really agree with him on "pressing moral issues". Stem Cell Research. Abortion. No Sex Before Marriage (especially in African countries stricken with AIDS). No Sex At All. etc. And you really want him appointing more judges, inflicting his foreign policy on the world, etc. (These people see some of the actions in the world as the prelude to the events in Revelations. No Seriously.)
4) You're rich as **** and are making out like a bandit on his fiscal policies. It stinks to have to buy new politicians every 4 years.
Anyway, I'm voting Libertarian, since my vote in Georgia "Just Doesn't Matter" thanks to the Electoral College. My votes for other national offices will be decided based on the individual candidates, and the odds of Kerry winning the whitehouse.
And for what it's worth, Kerry (being hyper-liberal) was probably selected because of Nadar in 2000. If it hadn't been for Nadar, the Democratic party might have went for a more moderate candidate this time around. As it was, they wanted a more liberal candidate to eliminate some of Nadar's draw. So I'm happy to "throw my vote away" and hope that either the Republicans (or god forbid the Democrates) pay attention to us fiscal conservatives.
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Date: 2004-09-08 02:18 pm (UTC)1) A friend of a friend in NYC says "Under Bush, there's at least a 10% lower chance of NY getting nuked. Therefore, even though I completely disagree with him on almost everything else, I'm voting Bush." (Personally, I have doubts that Bush's approach decreases the odds of NYC getting nuked within the next 100 years, but that's just me.)
2) Kerry is way scarier than Bush on fiscal policy. His disclaimer that everything is "just fine" with Social Security, for example. (Me, I figure a republican congress and a democratic whitehouse will help rein in most of the excesses. But he still gives me the heeby-geebies on this, and it is almost enough to vote AGAINST him.)
3) You really agree with him on "pressing moral issues". Stem Cell Research. Abortion. No Sex Before Marriage (especially in African countries stricken with AIDS). No Sex At All. etc. And you really want him appointing more judges, inflicting his foreign policy on the world, etc. (These people see some of the actions in the world as the prelude to the events in Revelations. No Seriously.)
4) You're rich as **** and are making out like a bandit on his fiscal policies. It stinks to have to buy new politicians every 4 years.
Anyway, I'm voting Libertarian, since my vote in Georgia "Just Doesn't Matter" thanks to the Electoral College. My votes for other national offices will be decided based on the individual candidates, and the odds of Kerry winning the whitehouse.
And for what it's worth, Kerry (being hyper-liberal) was probably selected because of Nadar in 2000. If it hadn't been for Nadar, the Democratic party might have went for a more moderate candidate this time around. As it was, they wanted a more liberal candidate to eliminate some of Nadar's draw. So I'm happy to "throw my vote away" and hope that either the Republicans (or god forbid the Democrates) pay attention to us fiscal conservatives.