We are less than one month away from “Super Tuesday” here in good ol’ MO. New Hampshire voters (would they be called New Hampshirians, or New Hampsherites?) will be holding their primary election tomorrow and Iowa’s caucus results are already in, so the process of selecting our party candidates is well underway. On February 5th, as you are going to the polls, what will be the biggest influence on your voting? Are you waiting to find out who the most electable candidate or will it be the issues?
I have been a flip-flopper this year. I keep going back and forth between candidates at a pace never before seen by my political ideology. As I start to think more critically about the political issues that are important to me, I am finding there is not one candidate that will bring with them everything I feel is important to the office. I am at a point of picking the lesser of two evils, and I will shamefully admit that the Iowa caucuses shifted my politico train. Because there is not a perfect candidate in my eyes, I am going to try to supprot an electable candidate that will bring at least most of what I feel is important to the White House – and it is not Ralph Wiggum. Leaving who you are voting for aside, what are you voting for?
I’m tired of “flip flopper” being a strictly negative term. Sometimes, it just means a person has changed their mind once they’ve processed new, previously unknown information. In my opinion, that’s intelligent.
I’m voting for the candidate who I generally agree with the most who can deliver his message just as strongly to the illiterate man as the lawyer. I’m sick of political jargon and talk. And, as a pretty average person, if I can’t decipher your message, how do you expect the disadvantaged to understand it? If they don’t, that means they don’t care. Which means they aren’t my candidate.
(What are YOU voting for?)
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I just don’t want Hillary to win. If she wins, Mr. I Heart Huckabees is going to win and that will make me damn near suicidal.
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I am voting on things in this order:
1 – Electability
2 – Tax Policy
3 – War Policy
4 – Health Care
But I would rather not say who my #1 choice is right now, as I am not sure that will be who I cast my final ballot for and I am not sure I could handle myself in a debate as to why I would vote that way yet.
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When all is said and done, it all comes down to two choices.
TWO choices. 300 Million people in this country and it comes down to TWO darn choices.
I understand that a reasonable person can look at the current president and offer forth a most sincere WTF. Trust me. I understand.
But remember that there were two instances when the choice was so dim that 49-51% of the population picked him over “the other guy.”
“But they couldn’t have been any worse than this guy!” you say.
Trust me. I’m an old fart now. We’ve had worse in the last 40 years. It can always get worse. We may not have a president as inarticulate as this one again in our lifetime, but we’ll see much worse.
I lived through Nixon-Ford-Carter. Really. Count your blessings. I know you love to hate the guy, but… Our president is leaving office having made a lot of mistakes, but I never showed up to a gas station to be turned away because my license plate ended in an odd digit on an even day. I never had a president tell my boss to freeze my wages.
But we gotta figure out how we can do better than two iffy choices out of 300 million people. I’m baffled.
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My top issues:
1. Electability
2. Healthcare
3. War policy
Although “electability” in my eyes means one person, it means ssomeone else to another.
Let me make a prediction – the person (a D) who is least attacked right now, will be bamboozled by attacks during the main election. There’s a reason the opposers are holding off…politics people, politics.
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I am voting for Mitt Romney. He from the start reflects my views and what I see for America. I want every idiot that has been in DC for the last 8 years gone. He has tackled health care, created jobs, understands the immigration threat and the threat of al Qaeda. He is truly presidential and a good man with a wonderful family. I would be proud to have Mr. Romney as my next president.
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