[POLITICS] Voting for a Democrat, Rooting for McCain

[connielane]

Goodness knows I have no intention of voting for McCain today or on Election Day. But I'm kind of rooting for McCain to lock up the Republican nomination today. If Ann Coulter hates him, there must be something right about him. Furthermore, all of the fire he's taking from that branch of the Republican party that I think have been part of the problem, part of the reason there has been SUCH an intense partisan divide since the early 1990s, is all the more reason for me to hope for him to do well today.

In other political news...

If you live in one of the Super Tuesday states, I hope you're planning on voting today, and voting not for the candidate you think is most likely to win the nomination but the candidate who most closely speaks to your hopes for the country.

Comments

[ashavah]

I know the feeling ... I don't want McCain to be the next President, but I do want him to win the nomination@

[lnalvgd.livejournal.com]

I have to poke in and say:

I LOVE YOUR ICON!

[lnalvgd.livejournal.com]

I'm still having problems with whom I want to vote for...

I have until 8pm EST to make that decision.

But I'm still up in the air since Edwards dropped out last week.

[wahlee-98.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to be voting today. In order to vote in the Republican primary, I'd have to register as a Republican, something I simply refuse to do. I could vote in the Democratic primary, but I can't honestly cast my vote for either Clinton or Obama (and while in theory the idea of voting for Edwards just for you sounds like a fun idea, it doesn't fit my ideology :P). So, I'm stuck. The only thing I can think of doing is voting for Kingsley Shacklebolt as a write-in. :P

I guess I'll just have to wait until the general election. *sigh*

[connielane.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think of doing is voting for Kingsley Shacklebolt as a write-in. :P

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Kingsley for prez! *cue Shaft theme*

[spattergroit.livejournal.com]

i'm voting democratic as well but i would pick mccain, too. no lie.

[the-vixxmeister.livejournal.com]

Who is the Coulter woman?

more than you probably wanted to know

[connielane.livejournal.com]

She's a conservative political commentator and sometime attorney (she was a legal advisor to the lawyers representing Paula Jones when she sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment) and (mind-bogglingly) a best-selling author. She's appeared on a lot of American news shows and made a lot of "brilliant" comments like the following:

About a group of 9/11 widows:
"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."

About the New York Times:
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh [one of the Oklahoma City bombers] is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

About racial profiling and airport security:
"If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether."

About former Democratic candidate John Edwards:
"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions."

About women voting:
"...It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."

I have to laugh at her. Otherwise I'd throw everything in my house at the TV screen whenever she's on. One news pundit calls her "Coultergeist." I think she might be the Anti-Christ myself.

Re: more than you probably wanted to know

[the-vixxmeister.livejournal.com]

No, that's exaclty the kind of thing I wanted to know. What a nut job!

[mrs-bombadil.livejournal.com]

Yes, even I can look past my pragmatism (perhaps the Democrat is even more likely to win the general election if pitted against a weinermobile) and say that I'd be happier too if McCain gets the nom.

[angua9.livejournal.com]

even I can look past my pragmatism

I can't.

I'm terrified the Democrats will find some way to lose the presidential election and I want the weakest, most independent-alienating Republican candidate possible. Since Rudy's eliminated, I'm rooting for Romney.

[connielane.livejournal.com]

That can backfire bigtime, though. I'm afraid I'll just be in panic mode until November. :P

[uangel05.livejournal.com]

I'm a republican (don't get to vote til March though) and I'm in the same position, though of course from the other side. I'm a McCain supporter and even though I think Hillary would be much easier to beat in the general election, I'd rather have Obama win the nomination. I just think the country needs a more moderate, non-divisive President at this time. Maybe that'll help calm things down a bit...