For gosh sake don't HAND the election to the GoP

[melchar]

It's getting depressing now. The Dems are willfully tossing the election and IMO another Republican administration will founder the US. [I've been a registered Rep since I was 18 - but I'm a 'small gov't, no gov't interference, no colony grabbing/war mongering, for gosh sake we -need- social programs Republican']

Problem is that the Dems are trying to be Republican-lite and just sucking at it. Obama is caving to the pressure and has gone as focus-group-crazy as the other pols. Why can't -someone- keep a spine and run for office?

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[spaceroo.livejournal.com]

Problem is that the Dems are trying to be Republican-lite and just sucking at it. Obama is caving to the pressure and has gone as focus-group-crazy as the other pols.

So far as I can tell Obama in-total is the product of a focus group. It'd probably be easier for him to keep a spine if he'd had one installed in the first place. As hard as I've tried I just can't see what there is to him that excites people so. On the "national stage" he's served a whopping 2/3rds of a Senate term, during which he was a perfect "party line" vote on every issue. Not exactly a stunning track record when it comes to initiative and original thinking.

The more I find out about John McCain *as a person* the more I like him. If nothing else *he* definitely has a spine (Admittedly it's currently slightly bent to the right in order to pander to the far-outies in his party, which every candidate, left or right, has to do during elections. It's the dedicated wackos who actually bother to get out and vote, after all.), and a satisfyingly dark and ironic sense of humor. My problem is if he were to be president I wish he could of *been* president in 2000 before Bush dug this godawful foreign relations hole we're in now. McCain would have turned Afghanistan into a greasy spot if he'd been in charge in 2001 (There probably wasn't any way of avoiding that. Gore probably would of too.), but getting into Iraq? Something tells me that could of been different.

I pity *whoever* inherits this mess.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Truer words were never typed.

I also like John McCain as a person - and wish -he'd- won the 2000 election, but in the last 8 years it's like the far right have brainwashed him ... or he decided he wants the presidency no matter how many ideals he sacrifices. Makes me very sad. He's changed his stance on so many issues - and is courting the religious nuts that castigated him 8 years ago.

It just drives me nuts.

[ericlarson.livejournal.com]

With the VP pick, it looks to me as if McCain is trying to hand it back to the Democrats. ("You take it!", "I don't want it! You take it!")

[shadowcatt-x.livejournal.com]

I consider myself a conscientious objector to the politcal process, but I do like the fact that this is the first election since Reagan, I believe, that has a lot of people showing some passion for the process. When Bush Jr. ran the first (and second) time, my overall impression was that the voters shared a 'who cares' attitude. This election, it seems everyone has an opinion, and doesn't hesitate to share it with me. . . at length. . . usually while I'm trying to concentrate on something important (but that's a rant for another time).