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Name:	SPEARFISHER -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 12:46:18 PM

Reasons I am Voting Democrat-

I'm voting Democratic because an inexperienced US Senator gives great speeches that make me feel good.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe three or four elitist liberals need to rewrite the Constitution through judicial fiat every few days to suit some idealists who would otherwise NEVER get their agendas past the voters.

I'm voting Democratic because I don't want a stimulus check to spend. Let the government spend it for me.

I'm voting Democratic because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the employees (after taxes).

I'm voting Democratic because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe that churches should only be allowed for political speeches.

I'm voting Democratic because I don't want Doctors who were at the top of their classes to operate on me. I want a government employee who makes $50k a year and couldn't hack it as a contractor or an engineer doing my surgery.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe that paying $4.00 a gallon or more is no reason to drill for the mountain of oil we are sitting on in THIS country. We wouldn't want to have to move a couple of polar bears now would we?

I'm voting Democratic because when we pull out of Iraq, I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.

I'm voting Democratic because I like it when planes fly into buildings full of civilians. I want to see more of that.

I'm voting Democratic because I believe that when the terrorists don't have to hide from us over there, when they come over here I don't want to have any guns in the house to fight them off with.

I'm voting Democratic because I don't want to eat poison food and drink infected water. We all know Republicans love that stuff. (Ever wonder why the most left wing country in the world (China) is the most polluted?)

I'm voting Democratic because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

I'm voting Democratic because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I'm going to marry my TV.

I'm voting Democratic because I REALLY believe there is no bias in the media.

Name:	rude evin -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 2:13:37 PM

Get this man a soapbox and a beer, he makes a lot of sense...............

Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 2:48:39 PM

UNFORTUNATELY too much sense, get ME a beer.... The sheep are lining up with a glazed look in their eyes. Walk into the light, and have a nice cold glass of Kool-Aid.

Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 6:28:21 PM

Do you guys seriously think John McCain with a Democratic majority in Congress is gonna' be the answer??

Name:	rude evin -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 9:02:55 PM

Well, since we do live in an imperfect world.............I'll take McCain with his warts and a D congress if that's the best we can do..........I'll take a split gov't anyday than one where EITHER party is in total control..............your rights and your wallet are not in great shape otherwise. Do you really think you would be better served with a Dem majority in congress and a Dem president????

Name:	JohnGalt -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 11:21:04 PM

Do you guys seriously think John McCain with a Democratic majority in Congress is gonna' be the answer?

I'll ask the question a different way....

Do you guys seriously think Obama with a Democratic majority in Congress is gonna' be the answer?

That will be the question when you go to vote in November.

Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/6/2008 11:26:16 PM

Exactly the reason I asked the question.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in political campaigns every 4 years by 2, count them, 2, political parties to convince us voters to toe the party line, keep the same trough-feeders in office, let them manage our lives, please don't rock our boat. And, it still works.
I posted days ago about the potential for a 3rd. Party candidate?? No response, not one.
Debate all you want. But, when you go to the poll, and vote for door number 1 or door number 2, don't really matter. The agenda has already been set by both parties for the near future.

Name:	jalcz -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/7/2008 12:36:04 AM

"I'm voting Democratic because I don't want a stimulus check to spend. Let the government spend it for me." You are aware that it is the Democratic candidate who has proposed another round of stimulus checks, aren't you? "Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each.”" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12237.html

"I'm voting Democratic because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius." You are aware that the people who predict rain on Friday are meteorologists, and that the people who study global warming are climatologists, and that equating the two is as accurate and logical as thinking that a chiropractor is the same thing as a spinal surgeon, right?

Name:	Hogwild01 -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/7/2008 2:50:45 AM

Where is Ross when you need him? Just vote none of the above!!

Name:	Swimmer27 -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/7/2008 8:26:08 AM

Yes he wants to send us all another $1000, AFTER he takes it from 'big oil'. We all know that big oil is making too much money for the share holders. We can't have that now can we? I will point out though, that if you have a retirement plan of any kind the the chances are like 95% that you own part of 'big oil'.

Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/7/2008 1:06:39 PM

Nope, but it is called damage control. The people of this country are stuck in a "two party" mode. I would like to vote Libertarian in most elections, but will do what I can to help avoid a socialist state.

Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Reasons I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/7/2008 2:10:42 PM

The stimulus check is nothing more than political pandering. If they want to help the citizens of this country, they would cut taxes that those of us who are working, and cut government spending - neither of the "Big Parties" is interested. We ain't #1, we ain't even #2.

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	Why I'm Voting Anti-Incumbent
Date:	8/8/2008 8:25:21 AM

Every election we return over 95% of the incumbents and we expect something to change? These guys are staying in office too long. The benefits and power are so great they will do anything to get re-elected. This won't change until we change the way we vote. Can you tell the difference between a Republican and Democrat anymore? I can't.

Lawyers are particularly good at this. In school they are trained to represent their clients faithfully and this unfortunately has become distorted to mean the constituents that represent them to the exclusion of the welfare of the country. That's how "Roads to Nowhere" get built. The majority of our elected congress are lawyers.

The founding fathers considered elected office more as a volunteered service to the country not some highly paid career

Turn 'em out...frequently.

Name:	Ulysses E. McGill -	Reply
Subject:	Agreed.
Date:	8/8/2008 9:04:56 AM

Both parties are so tied up in politics that we have little chance of ever getting the type of leader this country needs to balance budgets, reduce taxes, and foster economic stability.......The recent "stimulus" package was a vote buying joke (as is anything from Obama) because they phase out for those who pay the majority of the taxes that fund the Washington playground.

Name:	Summer Lover -	Reply
Subject:	Why I'm Voting Anti-Incumbent
Date:	8/8/2008 10:07:36 AM

If there were term limits, or service limits of four years, we would get the turnover that I agree would be good. Won't happen, the long timers have the power to get the "roads to nowhere" (queue the "Talking Heads"). Just as we have people voting straight ticket because their parents did, the people of this country are not fed up enough to make a CONSTRUCTIVE change in DC. Too many seem to forget that "no change" is not always bad, and "change" is not always good, gridlock can be good for the citizens. When we asked my Grandmother if she was going to vote for Reagan, she said that she would NEVER vote for a Republican - we asked if she supported abortion - "oh no" - and did she support higher taxes and more Government give a ways - "oh no, I worked too hard for my money." I told her that meant she was a Republican - "oh no, my father would turn over in his grave." There are still people like that....

Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	So, How Do You Fix It??
Date:	8/8/2008 7:19:29 PM

The only serious threats from 3rd. Party candidates in recent history were George Wallace and Ross Purrreaux. One got shot and the other was crucified by the media.and, even if a 3rd party President were elected, imagine what he/she would face off against in Congress, and Justice, and media, all party affiliates.
So, How Do You Fix It??

Name:	jalcz -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/9/2008 1:12:59 AM

Where do you want the money to come from? Education? Social Security?

You missed the point anyway. The point is, once again we have someone who is spouting fiction as fact, for the simple reason that they were told what to believe, and did so without doing the slightest bit of digging to see if what they were being told is true.

Such idiocy is non-partisan, and the fact that our next President-- whoever it is-- is going to be elected by a bunch of people who could not be more easily led around if they had nose rings is more than a little bit scary.

What's even scarier is that this is happening in a time when information is more easily available than at any time before.

Vote for whoever you want-- me, I'm still undecided as to whether I should vote for McCain again (yes, again) or whether I think it's time for a change-- but for God's sake, let's vote based on what we can LEARN about the candidates, and not what we have been told to believe.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/10/2008 8:48:49 AM

You are aware that it is the Democratic candidate who has proposed another round of stimulus checks, aren't you? "Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each.”" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12237.html

So what? Where do you think that money came from in the first place? Right out of your pocket. A little lesson in basic economics. Businesses do not pay taxes. Only individuals pay taxes. Businesses obtaim money from their customers on a voluntary basis and then goverment takes it away from them at the point of a gun. The US already has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world. We the taxpayers pay for that out of our pockets and I for one would much rather voluntarily pay Exxon to generate $19B in profit than have the government take that money from me at the point of a gun and then piss most of it away with useless bureacracy and wasteful spending. Two quotes from Fredric Bastiat: 1) Government creates nothing. 2) Government is that fiction by whcih everyone lives at the expense of everyone else.

If there is an economic crisis in this country it is economic illiteracy.

You are aware that the people who predict rain on Friday are meteorologists, and that the people who study global warming are climatologists, and that equating the two is as accurate and logical as thinking that a chiropractor is the same thing as a spinal surgeon, right?

Aren't these the very same climatolgists that 30 years ago were predicting an ice age was shortly going to be upon us? It seems to me that the only difference between the two is the length of time for their predictions to be proven false. The fact is that the alarmists went from global cooling, until proven wrong, to global warming, until the recent data is beginning to show that this is also wrong. So now we talk about "climate change" that is caused by man. 50,000 actual, real live scientists (none of whom failed out of divinity school) recently signed a petition disputing the claim that man causes global climate change. As I have said before, in 50 years man-made global warming will be viewed as one of the great hoaxes pertetrated on mankind and the proponents (Algore and his syncphants in the media) will be seen as the Charlatan in Chief.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	So, How Do You Fix It??
Date:	8/10/2008 9:08:26 AM

I really don't believe that a 3rd party is the answer. If you compare our goverment to countries with multiple parties (more than 2) it seems to me that we are much more functional (albeit we have our moments). In countries with multiple parties what happens is they all obtain a portion of the vote. In order for a government to be seated these disparate groups must come together in order to form a ruling coalition. This creates strange and disfunctional bedfellows that are not a stable, lasting partnership. In fact, they usually come together as a partnership of convenience because the one thing they have in common is they don't like the other guys. So the government forms and then some bump in the road happens, the coalition falls apart and they have to scrap the government and call for elections. I really don't like the idea of that happening in the U.S. At least with the two party system for national elections we end up with a winner and we all reconcile ourselves to four years of that government.

What currently happens in the two party system is essentially the same thing except you don't have these wildly disparate groups coming together just to knock off the other guy. In our two party system we start with large groups of people that believe many of the same things with internal groups that differ on one or two issues, often vehemently. Which of those issues dominate the party platform will wax and wane depeding on the circumstances and mood of the country. Thie year the Democrat party was dominated by anti-war issues and Obama is the nominee. McCain is the nominee on the other side for a variety of reasons and while he is not my favorite he and I agree on many more things than I do with Obama. So I will vote for him. Is it perfect? No. Do I get a candidate that 100% agrees with my view of the world? Never have yet. Would I prefer multiple parties where the candidate that does agree 100% with my position has no hope of winning? Not by a long shot.

Name:	UncleSam -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/10/2008 11:19:34 AM

If I understand jlacz's response, the issue is not "who" proposed the stimulus package, "where" the money will come from, or "why" it is or is not a good idea. What he doesn't like is that someone is using an often-misused yet easily-researched "fact" to make their Presidential decision. And I agree with him that that is disturbing. We claim to be such an intelligent nation, when in fact about 99.4% of us believe what we believe because someone told us what to think.

In a nutshell, when the original poster said that he WANTED a stimulus check and simultaneously took a shot at the Democratic candidate (who WANTS to GIVE him a stimulus check) he might as well have posted "I vote the way I do because I am told what to think. Tell the prettier lie and you will get my vote." And because there are SO MANY who seem to feel the same way, it is scary.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/10/2008 11:47:22 AM

I think I missed his point about the stimulus check. I thought he was saying it was a good thing and that Obama is the one who called for it. I guess I may have misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification.

Name:	Swimmer27 -	Reply
Subject:	Reasomns I'm Voting Democratic
Date:	8/10/2008 4:22:19 PM

I don't want the money to come from anywhere!!! I don't want another income redistribution scheme at all. Let the oil companies keep their money, let me keep mine, you keep yours etc. etc. It is nothing more than an empty promise to buy votes.

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