Well I'll say this: McCain makes me sick and Guiliani isn't much better. I actually feel bad for the Republicans out there this time around if either one of them ends up being your horse. I mean, I dislike Clinton and Obama but since I'm not generally conservative I can stomach the idea of voting for them. While you obviously won't agree with them on the issues they do more or less represent the party and a majority of the Democratic voters.
Personally if I were in ya'lls shoes I'd almost consider just voting for whoever the Democrats run, and I'm not just saying that out of any perceived self-interest. Losing both houses in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 would at least force the Republican party to do some
serious soul-searching about just who they're trying to represent and what they're trying to do. Cause it seems to me
nobody's too pleased with what they've been up to for the last little while.
The problem, I realize, being how much damage they can manage to do if they actually controlled all three branches for even two years. I think that's honestly never a good thing, regardless of which party manages it. In fact, depending on how the Congressional races are looking I'd actually consider voting for whoever the Republicans run just to avoid this. Anybody who knows me here knows I don't agree with either party on all issues, and really the perceived loss from a Republican win in the White House would be more than offset by not having either party consolidate power again.
But heck, none of this really matters anyway...I'm in one of those states that, at least as far as presidential races goes, doesn't get much redder. The only chance I have to actually influence who ends up president is in the primaries.
I hate the two-party gimmick, and I hate 99% of politicians.
You and me both. Unfortunately the only people with any real power to end the two-party system are the very people it benefits.