Reply #23: It Was A Pandering Vote All Around By Edwards, Kerry and Hillary

[Median Democrat]

The fact of the matter is that we were let down by all of the Democrats who voted in support of that resolution. Yes, the political reality was that they were fighting for their political lives. However, before committing our nation to war, we are not well-served by leaders who make stupid choices for political expediency. We have spent close to 8 years of Bush running his government like a political campaign, full of slogans, but with little analysis or policy.

John McCain is even worse given his initial opposition to such Bush policies like the open ended tax cuts, and his subsquent reversal on these positions. This is what worried me about Hillary. She mustknow, for example, that the gas tax cut was a bs stunt. However, she did that in order to triangulate between McCain and Obama.

So, I would have voted for her if she was the nominee, but I was never crazy about her. I was actually split between Edwards and Obama to begin the primary season.