I Can't Find A Candidate I'll Support For President!

[Ontologuy]

If you can't vote FOR someone, there's surely someone you wish to vote AGAINST.

Oh, if only there was a box to check that truly subtracted a vote from the candidate(s)!

 

[Goshin]

Oh, if only there was a box to check that truly subtracted a vote from the candidate(s)!

I've often wished for a "none of the above" box... sometimes thinking we'd be better off with an office unfilled... but the only way to vote against someone in reality is to vote for whoever is running against them.


Ugly, but often it is what we're left with. "Yeah, A sucks but not as bad as B!"

 

[Gaugingcatenate]

When I think of a candidate's personality, I think also of their associated presented emotional state, attitudes, how they'd deal with stress, the way they speak to and about others, and the like.

Then I think about them carrying the little black box.

So, have you listened to Cruz. Where is it you have found fault? I would be interested to know. While I am for Cruz, my mind is open and I will always look for those who will do the best for America.

But consider these 2 examples that impressed me:

Saw a youtube video of him calmly take on hecklers, in close quarters, and allow them a voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnBPwNzAgE

And another in which he takes on an upset farmer in Iowa that didn't agree with Cruz's views on not continuing subsidies, again in very close quarters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi5IZ9StVUI

To me he seemed calm, cool, collected, used his intellect but didn't back down from the hard questions or change his obviously much considered stance. Most pander to the crowds, Cruz states his conservative views and, to my mind, sticks to them.

 

[Ontologuy]

I've often wished for a "none of the above" box... sometimes thinking we'd be better off with an office unfilled... but the only way to vote against someone in reality is to vote for whoever is running against them.


Ugly, but often it is what we're left with. "Yeah, A sucks but not as bad as B!"

Yeah .. but it gets really old.

 

[Goshin]

Yeah .. but it gets really old.

Well, you could just not vote.



Of course if you do that, you're leaving a lot of things that might potentially be important to you in the hands of those who DO vote.


You pays your money and you takes your chances.

 

[azgreg]

Well, you could just not vote.



Of course if you do that, you're leaving a lot of things that might potentially be important to you in the hands of those who DO vote.


You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Not voting is not an option for me. I'm of the thought that "If you don't vote, you can't bitch."

 

[blackjack50]

This is one of the only elections where third party has a chance. It all depends on who the republicans elect.

 

[Ontologuy]

Well, you could just not vote.



Of course if you do that, you're leaving a lot of things that might potentially be important to you in the hands of those who DO vote.


You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Yeah I know ... .

Maybe I'll eventually find a candidate I can get behind. Who knows -- the GOP convention might nominate a "none of the above" dark horse whom I like.

In the meantime, I've joined a group that's dedicated to persuading candidates to doing what's right for Americans regardless of who the candidate is. It's not perfect. But it's better than nothing.

So .. if it came down to between Cruz and Clinton, who would you vote against?

 

[Goshin]

This is one of the only elections where third party has a chance. It all depends on who the republicans elect.

You may as well vote for unicorns and rainbows, bud. I got the BTDT T-shirt, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.


Trust me. It will take FAR more drastic (likely, disasterous) conditions before a 3rd party candidate has any chance of doing anything other than fracking up the general election results.


The last 3rd party candidate to even come close took over 25% of the popular vote without getting even ONE electoral vote. In other words, he didn't even come within 1/270th of winning the Presidency.

 

[Goshin]

Yeah I know ... .

Maybe I'll eventually find a candidate I can get behind. Who knows -- the GOP convention might nominate a "none of the above" dark horse whom I like.

In the meantime, I've joined a group that's dedicated to persuading candidates to doing what's right for Americans regardless of who the candidate is. It's not perfect. But it's better than nothing.

So .. if it came down to between Cruz and Clinton, who would you vote against?

I sure as **** will not vote for someone who may be facing indictment for gross mishandling of top-secret documents; who has expressed a desire to push for unspecified new gun control; who may have been culpable in what happened to our people at Bengazhi; who claims to be a woman-for-women but who was an enabler and helped cover up her husbands philandering and mistreatment of women possibly up to and including rape and discrediting the victims.

 

[Eric7216]

You are not alone. I would suspect most of us hold our noses and vote for the person that we can support 30%, 50% or 60% of the time. But whatever that is still is more than the other candidates. I am guessing that 10-20% are partisan hacks who follow the true believer mindset.

 

[Ontologuy]

I sure as **** will not vote for someone who may be facing indictment for gross mishandling of top-secret documents; who has expressed a desire to push for unspecified new gun control; who may have been culpable in what happened to our people at Bengazhi; who claims to be a woman-for-women but who was an enabler and helped cover up her husbands philandering and mistreatment of women possibly up to and including rape and discrediting the victims.

Wow -- okay, I get the implied answer. :lol:

Now, same question: Trump or Clinton, who would you vote against?

 

[Goshin]

Wow -- okay, I get the implied answer. :lol:

Now, same question: Trump or Clinton, who would you vote against?

Same answer, just less enthusiasm.

 

[Abbazorkzog]

Wow -- okay, I get the implied answer. :lol:

Now, same question: Trump or Clinton, who would you vote against?

Even Trump would make a better CIC than Clinton, and that's pretty sad.

 

[Ontologuy]

Same answer, just less enthusiasm.

Yes, I think that's what I miss a lot about this election: I don't have much enthusiasm.

 

[VanceMack]

Bernie Sanders, and here is why...





There are no Republican candidates that are actively trying to avoid a NATO-Russia conflict.

All the trivial, meaningless things like gay marriage and abortion, and socialism, aside ...Sanders is the only candidate actively doing his best to avoid WW3.

No one wants another war. However as a world leader you cant lead with your head in the sand and you cant negotiate from a stated position of weakness. The absolute reality is that not all world leaders are loving, caring, and benevolent. Most of them will see Sanders head in the sand as a great opportunity to exploit the part still sticking upward.

 

[Winchester]

I just can't find a candidate I can get behind and support for President.

If it isn't their policies it's their personality .. and if it isn't their personality, it's their policies. Etc.

Am I alone here, or do others here have the same problem?

My kingdom for a good dark horse!

Romney would be looking really good about now.

 

[Cephus]

I haven't been able to support a candidate for decades. Anyone that I'd want to vote for, those people are too smart to run for political office. I always vote against the biggest evil, never for someone worth voting for.

 

[Cephus]

You have to play the game of politics to have any say in the running of this country.

I will vote for who ever I think will be the best president.

Mickey Mouse would be a better president than any of these clowns.

 

[Cephus]

Luckily the hand I am dealt lets me pencil in "Morgan Freeman" if it comes down to it.

I'd vote for Morgan Freeman if he had any shot of actually being elected. Bill Nye too.

 

[Unitedwestand13]

Mickey Mouse would be a better president than any of these clowns.

I will speak bluntly: I will support either Hilliary or Bernie, because I want to be sure that none of the republican canidates win.

 

[Cephus]

I will speak bluntly: I will support either Hilliary or Bernie, because I want to be sure that none of the republican canidates win.

And I will vote for whoever the GOP puts up because I'd rather die than vote for Hillary or Bernie. But it isn't because I like anything on the GOP side, I just want those liberal losers not to win.

 

[Unitedwestand13]

And I will vote for whoever the GOP puts up because I'd rather die than vote for Hillary or Bernie. But it isn't because I like anything on the GOP side, I just want those liberal losers not to win.

I will also try to help the democrats take back the senate.

Just in case the worst happens

 

[Ntharotep]

I'd vote for Morgan Freeman if he had any shot of actually being elected. Bill Nye too.

On THIS we definitely agree.

 

[Cephus]

I will also try to help the democrats take back the senate.

Just in case the worst happens

And that worst would be having the liberals in any kind of power whatsoever.