I was basically a one-issue voter in 2004. I'm not totally a one-issue voter now, though Iraq and Afghanistan remain the biggest issues for me. It all depends on who wins the primaries. No way in hell am I voting for Hillary Clinton or Mike Huckabee. Romney rubs me the wrong way sometimes, but he isn't blacklisted yet.
If the election were held today and all the major candidates were running, I would vote for McCain. He is the guy that should be running things in the middle of a war. But he isn't even likely to get the nomination, though I am not counting him out just yet. I states awhile ago that I could see myself voting for Obama under the right circumstances, and I think that still holds. He is on the other side of the issue on Iraq, but he has never sounded totally irresponsible like his colleagues Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Besides, whoever is elected is going to have to deal with the very real problem of what to do about Iraq rather than just posture about what they would do if it was up to them. I think Obama can be trusted to act responsibly in that regard. On the last count, and I feel like this could be a very significant factor in 2008, is that Obama would be the first President born during the Civil Rights era and raised in the age of globalization and mass computerization. He was in his 20's when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. His candidancy represents a changing of the guard from the Baby Boomers to Gen X. That's a big deal. On Dec 19, 2007 11:48 AM, Gruss wrote: > > RoMunn wrote: > > I am a supporter of the war effort, not Bush's social conservative > agenda. > > > > Ah, gotcha. So just out of curiousity, would you call yourself a > "bush guy" or are you more of one-issue voter right now with Iraq? > i.e., who do you like for 2008? > > On Iraq, I really boil it down to 2 philosophies: stay until Iraq is > stable (i.e., forever) or deliver a solution. The only solution > offered that's realistic is Biden's. So, for me, there's stay-forever > and Biden. Obviously I like Biden's solution, although I think I'm an > Obama guy right now. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248666 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
