Why I hate candidate _____________: I'll go first.....

[mopaul]

just my fractured opinions here,

Lieberman: too republican and too agreeable with monkeyboy. don't care about his being a jew, but i wonder if it will affect his political decisions. bush says his beliefs are in his policies...
...(cough! gag! puke!) and Joe is relentlessly tedious and dull.
not to mention homely as a turtle.

Dean: for me, hard to pin down, i may vote for the guy, seeing as how he repulses me the least of all the principles. i know he could slay dumbass in a debate, and the gop attack machinery is producing missiles with his name on them.

Kerry: Another guy i could vote for without closing my eyes real tight. sharp, articulate, a veteran, i don't know about the hair though. he could also slay dumbya in a discussion of policies. but he looks too much like herman munster to satisfy me.

Kucinich: i like his fire, and his rhetoric, and his open and unabashed attacks on bushco, but he does come off as angry and defensive almost. a little too much rage in his demeanor. plus he looks like the guy who played ygor in the original Frankenstein movie.

Edwards: perhaps the cutest of the lot, and perhaps to me the most vague. he says all the things i want to hear, as if by rote, without much original flair or presentation. sort of like 'the candidate' with robert redford. however i could vote for him without feeling hopeless.

Sharpton: i know i'm in the twilight zone, cause al makes more sense to me on a mano i mano level than all the other cardboard cutouts in the running. he makes good sense on a lot of issues, and his religion does not ever come up in conversation. i know he has a rambunctious reputation, and sadly, he does not seem electable. if it weren't so, i'd vote for his finely coiffed ass, just on the outside chance that a few million reichwingers would choke to death on each other's wangs upon hearing the news.

Graham: i admire him, but he doesn't inspire me. he knows something about bush and 9-11 and he should be shouting it out instead of playing secret like bushco. a little too grandfatherly and old school for moi.

trying to remember the other couple three....i'll try to update and add my glorious opinion momentarily. feel free to comment or throw projectiles.

sadly, a huge percentage of people, myself included, vote for silly reasons, like appearence, demeanor, personality, sellability, or take the opposite path and vote AGAINST a person based on all the above.
it's important to vote on issues and electablility, and objectivity, but all those side distractions follow you into the booth.

[BuelahWitch]

1. I agree with you, I like Sharpton

Some of my former coworkers made snarky comments when he entered the race last winter. But the man makes alot of sense. I hope he gets a job in the next Dem administration.

[lastliberalintexas]

8. Sharpton is like Ted Kennedy

Kennedy had Chappaquidic (sp?) and Sharpton has Tawana Brawley. But for that one incident, I think Sharpton would be polling very high. He's got charisma to spare, is a wonderfully funny and eloquent speaker, and has good points on most issues. But then, there's Tawana...

[searchingforlight]

2. It is sad that Sharpton doesn't really have a chance.

I think I would vote for him and enjoy the ride.

[Snellius]

5. Agree about Sharpton

Sharpton won't win the nomination but he has managed to raise his public image, even among Democrats, as a kind of irritating joke to one of a truely witty, articulate, and confident fighter.

[Lizz612]

3. Gephart & Moseley Braun are the two you missed

Plus the other ones people want: Clark & Gore
Thats all I know.

[mopaul]

6. thanks...

brain heavily damaged like our president's.

gephardt is from my state, MO., and i've never liked him because he is so shapeless and daschley and yeomanlike. like he just shows up and says things that don't really move me. plus, no eyebrows.

moseley braun seems similar to dick, not exciting or hard enough on the repubs. seems very level headed and pleasent, but i doubt she could stand up against a withering repub attack machine. another instance of somebody who COULD do the job, but probably doesn't have a voting base big enough to make it happen. gotta admire her courage though, the only woman running, and not a liz dole type woman thank god.

clark: i'm drawing a blank here. that's not good. i'll have to study up. can't even picture him in my confused skull.

[Wonder]

7. Yes! The original poster missed those two.

I also wanted to give a thumbs up on Sharpton's grounded presentation as well. Of all the bunch he surprised me the most. Of course, I am partial to good oration and while he strikes all the passionate cadences, I also feel actions speak louder than words. Besides the empire seems partial to protestants, at least where figureheads are concerned.

As departures go, a woman pres might be an interesting experiment, but the patriarchy seems beefed up with way too much testosterone (or is it steroids) at the moment; too out of control to even consider kindly a woman on top. UNLESS the female chosen was just as corrupt as the boys and carried concealed within her purse all those *party toys* assured to keep their tails wagging, in her quest to keep their morale up and their thinking caps off; so I am not sure Braun is the woman for the (cough) *job*. Something tells me (cough) mendacity goes against her grain and would be too much for her to swallow.

[MuseRider]

4. I was so happy that

the candidates were shown at a later time. I finally got to see them and listen. I have a funny feeling about Sharpton that I never had before. I really, really liked him. I don't think I ever disliked him but he seemed so ready last night, fired up without yelling, loaded with info and he is just damned fun to listen to. Anyway, I have always been attached to Kucinich (even though I can't ever remember how to spell his name). I was impressed with some things about Dean, more so than before. Kerry reminds me more of Odo than Herman Munster. I would vote for any of them, even holy Joe if it comes to that, BLECH!