Are we rushing into a mistake ?

[kentuck]

It seems like we are rushing to get our nominee for President? I get the feeling there is more vetting to come? We do not know what may be uncovered in the future? So, why the rush? Let's not dive headlong into something we may regret sooner rather than later. There is so much we do not know, in my opinion. Let's slow down just a little...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. I know of no better way to make a mistake than by rushing. n\t

[Yael]

2. Yep yep yep!

[thunder rising]

3. The schedules are set ... what's left to slow down?

[EFerrari]

5. Thought? Reflection? Reality checking?

[EFerrari]

4. I don't think we are rushing. We are being pushed mightily. n/t

[JuniperLea]

6. Indeed we are!

I've been digging my heels in NOT to decide! I've narrowed it down to two candidates, I think. I will support whomever the Democratic candidate is in the general election, but now is the time for voting with our conscience in the primary.

[EFerrari]

9. When I was teaching college, one of the hardest things I had to do

was not to lead my students to MY conclusion but to let them work to their own because that was my job, right?

I have a distinct sense of being herded right now. Of having the conversation cut off too soon. I don't like that.

[JuniperLea]

14. I think you may have hit on something important here...

The difference between finding your own conclusion and having one thrust upon you lit a little light bulb.

Perhaps there are just far too many people, on both sides of the aisle, who cannot make decisions or formulate their own conclusions. They for some unknown reason were not allowed, or were not given the tools to use their own minds effectively in this regard. We sometimes think of these individuals as "sheeple". Then there are those who will refuse to do as they are told. Many of the various candidate's supporters are very, very forceful in their attempt to sway our votes... even when they protest and state their progressive desire for all to make up their own minds, they will punctuate those statements with force, ridicule and condescension if you don't agree with them. Then there are those like me, I'm sure I'm not alone in this, who are trying to decide but are trying even harder to feel like we aren't being pressured to decide.

I get into a hell of a lot of arguments around here for merely asking staunch supporters of this candidate or the other how they arrived at their decision, or how they came to believe some certain thing they state about a candidate. For them, it's believe me or you die by the lashing of my tongue/keyboard!

Just thinking out loud here... thanks for the food for thought!

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Agreed. Always keeping eyes and ears and mind open. n/t

[Blue State Bandit]

8. Rush? Didn't we start this like last spring?

What happened to all of the complaints that "the Presidential race" is like "Christmas marketing in July"?

I do think that the front loading of the primaries is a bit rash, but who here hasn't known the list of candidates since at least this time last year?

[EFerrari]

10. You have a point but, part of this is about how these candidates walk

through the process.

Only three states have held primaries and one of them was basically unauthorized for Democrats.

Yes, we are being rushed.

[applegrove]

11. I agree. I want a cautious choice.

[Barack_America]

12. Well, we rushed into war and that turned out all right...right?.....

On second thought, maybe you have a point.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. Used to be we'd wait until the convention

and I still think that is the way to do things. Really talk out ISSUES, thank you. I also find it odd that the MSM have all but decided the Democratic race but have let the GOP alone in this regard (other than ignoring Ron Paul).