Politics! ( RE:The November mid-term elections...

MattSullivan · Post by **MattSullivan** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:51 am

How many of you are going to vote in the November elections? Are you planning to? Or are you just gonna sit on your a** and let other people decide your future? For that matter...what's your political party and why are you going to vote for them?

I'll start...

I can't stand the Iraq war, it's gotten us NOTHING, but 500 BILLION dollars spent and counting. We could all have health care for that. However, I'm not a Bush or Republican hater. I just think he's stupid. And I can't stand it when people accuse dissenters of being "unpatriotic" And to tell you the truth, I have great fear of this rising fundamentalist Christian upsurge who have aligned themselves with the far right war-makers.

( no offense to moderate Christians who truly believe in "love thy neighbor, even if he's gay or a liberal" )

I would vote entirely Democratic, except I think the Dems are weak on illegal immigration. Trust me, when you have people marching in the street under foriegn flags, speaking a different language, that's how civil wars get started, and the country gets overpopulated. So, I'm likely going to vote independant, down the center ( because i cant stand the far left jerkwads either...

Well that's me. wot about you guys?

Terastas · Post by **Terastas** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:06 am

I'm tempted to vote independent, but for the first time ever, there are actually two politicians running for office that I like. One is the Democratic candidate, Deval Patrick, and the other is the independent, Christy Mihos.

I usually can't stand when people use the phrase "a waste of vote," but since I like the party candidate as much as I like the alternative, I'll go with the one more likely to win. Right now I'm actually more concerned about who shouldn't win than who should, so this is not a good time to be independent for me.

White Paw · Post by **White Paw** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:14 am

all i can say is that...i dont really follow politics enough to make any valid comments here but i do get the just of it and when the time comes i will vote....i always vote ....its my right to vote...

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:40 am

I can't vote

So i have no idea who's better then who. But I do get to vote for Pres in 2008, and I can tell you the only president uner the Republican party I can see myself voting for is Condellissa Rice, otherwise democrats, unless it's Clinton.

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:10 pm

I'm too young to vote myself, too.

But that doesn't mean I'm not getting in on the action.

I'm part of the Young Democrats Club at my school, and we're working to support some local, democratic canidates in our state.

(I didn't tell my club I'm more a libertarian, though.)

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:24 pm

Iam in the young democrats too, along with being the treasurer in the young Federalists (iam still not sure how that happened). Iam not allowed in young Republicans anymore, cause i argued with the president, because my views aren't like his (so this is what i get for being a moderate)

MattSullivan · Post by **MattSullivan** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:37 pm

I just couldn't believe we ( AMERICA ) invaded iraq. A soverign country that DIDNT attack us. And now the republicans have spent every cent and more of our surplus...

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:40 pm

If you ask me if you want a war, you should invade were we know they have weapons, Iran, i think bush just got those two confused.

Iran has violated the UN and should pay the price, but the UN is too weak to do anything about it.

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:11 pm

MattSullivan wrote:I just couldn't believe we ( AMERICA ) invaded iraq. A soverign country that DIDNT attack us. And now the republicans have spent every cent and more of our surplus...

Neither can I. I think there has been much too many questionable actions taken in Iraq.

Fenrir: I don't think we really need to be invading anyone.

And we don't have a Young Republican's Club at our school. I believe we have in the past, and I'm surprised we only currently have a Young Dems. -- I live in a very conservative area. There's hardly any democrats in my school, or young people even interested in poilitics for that matter.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:15 pm

the thing is the UN sent them a mandate and they didn't follow it, and so where's the threat if they don't follow through

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:19 pm

Fenrir wrote:the thing is the UN sent them a mandate and they didn't follow it, and so where's the threat if they don't follow through

Don't you think we're in enough already?

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:44 pm

I didn't mean us I meant the UN, it should fall on the UN to inforce there mandates, or what power do they have?

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:55 pm

Fenrir wrote:If you ask me if you want a war, you should invade were we know they have weapons, Iran, i think bush just got those two confused.

Iran has violated the UN and should pay the price, but the UN is too weak to do anything about it.

Hmm yes, Un should do something about it, they need to send out their army...oh wait!! They dont ahve an army!! And neither do we!! Ah we got is less than 200, 000 I imagine if that.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:43 pm

they don't have an army?! They are supposed to call upon their members armies together! that's their army!

Uniform Two Six · Post by **Uniform Two Six** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:57 am

I'll be voting democrat. This despite the fact that I'm a republican. The extremists have gotten control of the party and are running amok. I'd love the chance to vote for McCain or Colin Powell (in 2008), but as I said in an earlier post, I find the concept of werewolves really existing as being more plausible than either of those two candidates winning in the primary. Would not vote for Rice unless she was up against someone really horrible. I just do not trust her judgement. If I could choose my ideal president, I would probably choose Al Gore. He's not very charismatic (unlike Clinton), but he's a very intelligent, relatively politically savvy technocrat. In other words, he's almost ideal for the position of president.

That said, I don't think the dems have any real hope in either the upcoming election, nor in 2008. The country has swung too far to the right. The Republicans cannot run a nation state if their lives depended upon it (which sadly, they do not), but they can run a campaign which could sell refrigerators to eskimos. They are the ultimate in used car salesmen.