[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Chosing a candidate

[Vern Green]

I think the reason Ron Paul scores so low with me is not so much on
abortion, but the war on Iraq. Ron Paul opposes it with every ounce of his
being, to the point of wanting to bring troops home now. However, for me, I
do not hold as negative of an opinion.

On Jan 19, 2008 10:17 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> >>> http://glassbooth.org/
> >
> > I enjoyed this web page:
> > http://glassbooth.org/blog/2008/01/18/david-brooks-on-voting/
>
> Brooks wrote "In reality, we voters -- all of us -- make emotional,
> intuitive decisions about who we prefer, and then come up with post-hoc
> rationalizations to explain the choices that were already made beneath
> conscious awareness."  That might be true most of the time, but if you use
> the glassboth.org page to find out who you agree most with, then vote for
> that person, you'll be allowing reason to guide your choice and you won't
> have to come up with post-hoc rationalizations.
>
> One thing that we haven't mentioned, maybe because it's too obvious, is
> that for all of us there was *almost* no overlap of democrat and
> republican candidates.  The one exception was Ron Paul.  That guy came out
> all over the place.  Weird.  For me he was between the Dems and Reps but
> for Stephen and Vern, Ron Paul was ranked second to last just above Dennis
> Kucinich!  That must be because of abortion rights or something -- I
> basically left that off on my list, same for gay issues.  I was all about
> Iraq, economy, energy, health care, civil liberties and education.
>
> I just redid it focusing on immigration, gay rights, civil liberties,
> abortion and Iraq and pretended to be someone I would strongly disagree
> with.  It gave me Duncan Hunter at 81%.  I guess I *really* don't like
> Duncan Hunter, whoever he is.
>
>
> > Also, what hope has education when the media put about three days of
> > attention when one of the candidates tears up.
>
> She's the first serious female candidate for US President and I think it
> is natural that a lot of attention would be given to the tearing thing (I
> didn't think there were any tears but her voice broke) because our
> presidents never cry when answering questions, not that I've ever seen or
> heard of anyway.
>
> Mike
>
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F Vernon Green
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