Crossing party lines to vote in 2008

[strollingbones]

McCain is not dead. McCain is hiding. He's pandering to the right to get support, and it's painfully obvious. Once elected, he'll do what he wants, not what Bush wants.

do you still believe in the easter bunny too?

 

[auditor0007]

Four reasons I am crossing party lines to vote this time are ...

1. Afganastain - We should have finished the job there before moving on to Iraq. Strike one against Bush aka Republician.

2. Iraq - We should have never started in Iraq, under the circumstances we did - then when it became obvious it was time to get out - we didn't. Strike two against Bush aka Republican.

3. Katrina - As we sat and watched the city of New Orleans be ignored (as it was) by federal government for days, and days, and days it was like watching the 9/11 attack on New York by terrorists all over again. Only this time it was our President, and his administration that was attacking our own people by ignorning them. Strike three to strike one zillion against Bush aka Republican.

4. Voting for McCain is a minimum of four more years of Bush's Republician Bull $hit!

1. Your argument begins with the assumption that we actually could have won in Afghanistan by deploying more troops. What would we have been trying to win? Other than commiting genocide against the Taliban, there is no winning in that country. The Russians found this out. We decided not to make the same mistakes they did by sending troops into areas where we had no chance of being effective.

2. You can make a valid argument that there was no reason for us to go into Iraq. At the same time, everyone knew Saddam was ignoring every single UN resolution against him. Unfortunately, I will admit that it was a mistake based on the fact that we did not have more support from our allies. Of course, many of them were syphoning illegal money from Saddam, so how could we expect them to help?

3. Hurricane Katrina was not Bush's fault, period. If the levees had not given way, there would not have been a huge disaster. It would have been no worse than Hurricane Ike this year. The levees gave way because they were ignored for 25 years, when everyone knew they could not withstand a hurricane the strength of Katrina.

4. I don't even know who I'm voting for yet. I don't like McCain, but Obama's agenda of spending an additional trillion dollars just doesn't add up. Remember how Americans were fed up with the Republicans after Nixon? We elected Jimmy Carter and look what happened. My greatest fear is that by electing Obama, we will once again see 10% or higher unemployment, 10% or higher inflation, and we will follow that up with double digit interest rates. There is no guarantee that this will happen under Obama, but it is easy to see how in four years we could be looking back asking ourselves what we were thinking.

 

[tymebeta]

Yep, I crossed party lines when I voted last week. Independent who went and voted for the socialist. And before you jump to conclusions, I think both candidates are socialists.

 

[JimH52]

Boooosh can smile his smirkly little grin after Obama crushes McCain next Tuesday and think that he helped do his former foe, John McCain in, once again. McCain was in a tough spot. He either moves to Bush's side during the primaries or he loses the nomination but in doing so he has lost the support of moderates who actually admired his nonpartisanship. So, he will lose next Tuesday in a landshide rivaling Reagon's win over Carter in 1980. His fate was decided months ago by the Boooosh administration.

And the republican faithful can blame themselves because it was their votes that put Boooosh in office for two terms...which still gives me chills.

But don't give up hope, GOP solidiers The Democrats will play the fools that they are and will, with the drunken power bestowed on them, run the federal government for two years in a manner reminescent of the six years that the GOP had complete control of Washington. They will, as the cycles always dictate, lose Congress and possibly the White House once again in 4-6 years.

It is beginning to read like a sick script. Which party will finally bring the Country to it's knees? It is inevitable that a third party will begin to gain seats in Congress. Perhaps not in my lifetime, but in my children's, we will see it.