Why shouldn't I vote for Kerry?

[WilliamPitt]

Give me some good reasons not to vote for him.

[Commendatori]

1. If Bush weren't his opponent, this would be easy.

Since Bush IS his opponent, I can't come up with one. Hell, I'd vote for John McCain over Bush.

[Poiuyt]

6. Hell, I'd vote for a ficus tree over Bush.

[Commendatori]

14. Same here.

Truth be told, Kerry was just about at the bottom of the original Democrat candidates for me, but it's so easy to vote ABB that I'd even vote Zell Miller over Bush.

[lojasmo]

16. If it weren't shrub.....

It would be somebody else, and you'd be attacked for not supporting the dem. candidate.

Will, you're going to excoriate me, and that's fine. I'm going to vote for Kerry, but this is why I don't want to.

Iraq vote
Patriot act vote

And I know the talking points for those two votes, so don't freaking lecture me.

Goddamn bootlicking politicos. They'll do anything to assure their own political viability.

[WilliamPitt]

18. Assuring their own political viability

can be a dirty business in this corporate-owned country. It's also the only thing standing between us and the devil.

[sendero]

20. I don't mind....

... assuring their political viability as much as I mind them just being plain wrong (McCain for VP?) and having no guts.

[emulatorloo]

28. Is mCcain the VP? A: No.

Was McCain ever going to be the VP?
A: No

Next excuse to hate Kerry?

[sendero]

38. I don't hate Kerry...

... and I don't need an excuse to. If indeed his campaign floated that ridiculous idea, I have no respect for him. He is DAMAGING our party by sending the message that we need Pukes to help us govern.

It really doesn't matter much to me if you like it or not.

[emulatorloo]

40. Some at DU think it was a political gambit

never serious, but a way for Kerry and McCain to screw w Karl Rove's mind, and a way for Kerry to show independents that he is not a bitter nasty partisan like GWB. . .and all these things for free, because McCain was NEVER gonna be the VP. . .why would that be a bad thing?

Kerry is playing chess w GWB, not checkers. . .I don't think that is gonna damage our party. Cheers. . . .

PS 'reasons to hate kerry' I thought was the thread topic?

Edit clarify

[lojasmo]

46. that is simply postulation.

There is no saying that a more principaled person wouldn't have been able to win against bush.

I am irritated by politicians who abandon their principals.

Jesus, I hope Kerry picks a firebrand for a veep. Doesn't look good, though.

I never thought I'd say this, but GO WES CLARK!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. You are an arrant masochist?

I can see no other reason besides terminal greed, blinding stupidity or a craving for Armageddon...

[geek tragedy]

3. Don't vote for Kerry if

you hate America and want to see it fail.

[EdGy]

4. well, you are in Massachusetts, right...

so really you can safely vote for someone else. To send a message to Kerry you could vote for a more progressive candidate (though I do not think Ralph Nader fits that bill anymore).

Who are you thinking of going with?

[Bridget Burke]

12. If Will Pitt wants to "send a message" he's quite capable of doing so.

He does this "writing" thing. And I believe this thread is based on a rhetorical question--with a sarcastic nod to another thread.

[emulatorloo]

29. How about we send George Bush a message instead?!!?!?!?!?!?!?

EOM

[cjbuchanan]

5. because deep down you really want to die

and you know what, Bush will make it happen quicker then Kerry.

[Stew225]

7. you've sensed for some time now that

your IQ was a double digit. Now you can execute a personal litmus test, as it were.

[VelmaD]

8. Because his mother...

dresses him funny. :P

[Solly Mack]

9. Because you are being held hostage on election day

by rabid Bush supporters who tie you to a chair and relentlessly show you home movies of Shrub growing up?

[NoPasaran]

10. Because you secretly want to know

How much worse a second Bush* term would be.

[indigo32]

21. ouch

x(
:)

[WillyT]

36. Double Ouch !!!

:bounce::bounce::nuke: oops!!!

[Generator]

11. Skull & Bones

He's one of THEM. And since THEY control the world, you might as well not vote at all. I mean, what's the point? We are being controlled right now by remote control viewing, anyway.

[emulatorloo]

37. Yes, he should have pledged Sigma Nu

EOM

[molly]

42. I see posts like these as politically naiive

there is no perfect ANYTHING. If there were, I would have the perfect job - long since gone overseas even tho I worked my butt off for over 20 years (and I was GOOD - even AMAZING!). I would have the perfect marriage - I got married in 2001 after being divorced for 18 years. I would have the perfect everything. Nothing is perfect - try as we might.

I wonder at your age and/or your life experiences. There are many young people here without years of experience that have somehow gained political wisdom. Take at look at the guys that started this site. I respect and admire them even tho they are years my junior. Look at WillPitt - he could be my son - and sometimes I wish he were. Age is just a number in many instances.

You need to grow beyond "labels".

[Bridget Burke]

13. Because you want to immanentize the Eschaton.

(fnord)

[ContinentalOp]

31. LOL!

I haven't heard that in a while.

[never cry wolf]

15. He's NOT a ham sandwich??....n/t

[genius]

17. He's too tall. We need someone shorter in the White House.

[Amaya]

19. Existence is meaningless

So, does it really matter :shrug:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. Because he looks like Abe Lincoln, and EVERYONE knows that...

...ugly people can't become president.




Oh, wait...

[JHBowden]

23. He's not Howard Dean?

Somebody has to annoy the few cultists out there.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

24. Because Kerry is allowing the NeoCons to wallow in the growing sea....

...of damaging leaks, and won't add any gratuitous remarks to the pile just to draw attention to himself just to please some REALLY radical beyond-the-fringe leftists.

I mean, what the HELL is Kerry trying to do...WIN the election!????

[NoPasaran]

25. Mars, b*tch!

[gbwarming]

26. Too many Activist Liberal Justices on the Supreme Court already. nt

[HootieMcBoob]

27. ummm...because we need to stay the course...

right over the waterfall?

[Exgeneral]

30. Are you on the fence?

why the main reason is , we'll replace the warmonger in chief with the "stay the course, send more troops" monger in chief.

[emulatorloo]

32. Because he is "boring" and "doesn't excite you"

Because he is neither Robin Williams nor Xtina Aguilera.

And as you know, the main qualification for the presidency is his/her ability to entertain you.

[WilliamPitt]

34. Dance, monkeyboy, dance!

:)

[ContinentalOp]

33. It's not time yet.

Don't vote yet, the election is not until November.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

35. beats me?

Who else is there?

[eleny]

39. It hurts my head to think that hard!

[trof]

41. I don't think he loves Jesus.

I'm pretty sure.
He never comes right out and SAYS he does.
So he probably doesn't.
I'm also pretty sure he was only borned once.
If you ain't borned again...well...you won't get MY vote.
Twice borned is the only way to go.
Maybe even thrice borned.
That's the way I see it.

[JayS]

43. He is running in a national race with a New England...

...campaign? That does not sound like a good plan but it seems to be working. I'm worried that his poor record on Second Amendment issues will "gore" him down South though.

[HootieMcBoob]

44. I heard he was a flip flopper

I think he might be a flip flopper and I don't think that's good. Is it?

[emulatorloo]

45. It is good if he is in charge of making the pancakes.

It keeps them from burning on both sides!

So maybe you ougta vote for him. . .You like pancakes don't you?

[lojasmo]

47. I'm glad I didn't have a mouthfull of coffee there.

You shouldn't vote for Kerry because I didn't have a mouthfull of coffee.

[stavka]

48. OK - Here's a short list....

He voted for the war

He is not progressive

He reminds me of Count Chocula (and I'm a fruit bruit/yummy mummy man)

I don't understand how he differs from moderate republicans on most issues.

He does not represent the people, he's an aristocrat.

He appears to use minorities for their vote only.

He has a crappy pro-US plan for Iraq

He voted for the patriot act
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Note: He still has my vote; does that make me a bad person?

[John_H]

49. Oh.Ma. God. Like, I could never vote for someone who, like, looks

like count chocula. That is like soooooooooooooooooooo gross. Oh. Ma. God.