Local Republican frustrated with Rs running for president

[NewJeffCT]

I didn't think the rapist issue would affect Huckabee with Republics, but maybe I was wrong?

NO POLITICAL CASH
I am a life-long Republican and have never been so disappointed in the candidates we have running for president. Rudy Giuliani is on his third marriage and is estranged from his kids. Not exactly inspiring. Mike Huckabee personally lobbied for the early release of a rapist, who then went out and raped and killed again. Fred Thompson has gone over like a lead balloon, only he is less exciting. Meanwhile Mitt Romney flip-flops so often that he makes fellow Baystater John Kerry look like the proverbial immovable object, and John Mc-Cain seems to want to top Romney there. Lastly, Ron Paul is a certified loon who probably wears a tinfoil hat to bed at night. Add in Tom Tancredo and we really have seven dwarfs running against Hillary Clinton. None of them are fit to even stand in Reagan’s shadow, let alone inherit his legacy. Why have heavyweights in the party like Colin Powell, Haley Barbour, Orrin Hatch, Condoleezza Rice and Jeb Bush decided not to run? I may end up holding my nose and voting Republican, but I am withholding my political donations this year.

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click "read the newspaper" and then select a version and hit Speak Out.

[Selatius]

1. Haley Barbour is a failure as a governor, after examining the body count after Katrina.

I live down here on the Mississippi coast. I know about all the poor people who died simply because they had no access to a car or the money to afford travel inland.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I thought Barbour

was the front-runner for the VP nomination?

[Selatius]

7. Maybe. He engineered NAFTA, so he has a lot of powerful friends.

He won re-election as governor. I guess if he wanted a VP spot, he probably would've vacated his seat to prepare.

[unpossibles]

3. "I may end up holding my nose and voting Republican"

of course you will, sadly.

Can't have you not vote for the Republicans even though you admit you don't like any of them, and even though your points against them are all fairly superfluous and silly, mad up family values bullshit. Bastard.

Sorry - these are the people that drive me crazy. Is it so hard to ask for an informed voter who recognizes that their actions will have consequences? Did this same person vote for Bush twice then later complain that Bush is not a good President? I'd bet $50 on it.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. I hear ya!

After voting for Bush twice you'd think they would just put their hands in their pockets and leave it to someone else. The same guy must have been the kid that kept repeatedly burning himself on a hot stove because he just couldn't grasp the concept of heat = pain.

[NewJeffCT]

5. when I signed up for DU in 2003

It was almost every day we had a thread that said, "Bush is toast after this scandal"

And, every day we had somebody that had anecdotal evidence of people turning away from Bush and swearing to vote Democratic.

I even knew several people like that. One guy - a devout Republic - was telling everybody he knew to vote Kerry because Bush was terrible. However, they ended up voting Bush because the RW had so demonized Kerry that Bush seemed to lesser of two evils to them.

[unpossibles]

6. some did indeed

and others had their votes changed on them by the Republicon-owned machines.

The numbers have never added up for 2004, no matter how you slice them, and even the post-fix adjusted polls do not make sense.

But sadly, yes a lot of people still repeat the swiftboat/media lies about Kerry. Just goes to show how good their propaganda is, and how so many folks don't even realize it's propaganda.