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Where do you stand (Politically)? aka Who will you vote for in '08?
This question is coming up from people more and more as the '08 general elections approach. Of course, I've been active on this topic every year, not just electrion years.
I guess it's time I finally started to sum up where I stand on the man different political issues. Below is just the beginning with an overview. More details on specific issues will be posted later...
* I would be considered fiscally conservative and socially moderate. I tend more towards libertarianism, but find the party and people tend to go "to far". I can not ally my self with any of the current parties comfortably, and especially not the Republicans or Democrats. The Republicans have lost their vision (and souls?), and become too corrupt and strayed too far from their platform goals and become too facist and capitalistically corrupt. I am for capitalism and democracy, but without it becoming oligarchical in scope. I do not wish to see the USA further shifted towards socialism and communism, nor towards extreme right-wing fascism. When asked who I would vote for, I have to reply "I would vote for McCain before I would vote for Obama, but I can NOT in good conscience vote for McCain, so I will likely pencil someone in". I am still researching the possbilities therein. When people say "you are just throwing away your vote then" and "you just have to pick the lesser of two evils", I respond with "that is what leads to further corruption, it brings more of the same 'change' but without any positive transformation. If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil, which means further harm is done to the country and it's citizens. It is time for people to step out of the narrow mindedness of only accepting one party or the other, and through their votes, demand REAL transformation.". Alas, this mostly is just met with glazed looks, indifference, or irritation. But I am strong in my convictions and so can not compromise them easily.)
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I've been wading through the list of alternate presidential candidates since I can't in good conscience vote for Obama ("spread the wealth around" socialist), and McCain (facist). I looked at Bob Bar (libertarian), who has shall we say a very "checkered" past. And alsosaw Alan Keyes, but he seems to be far more religious right-wing extremist than I thought he was in the 2000 elections. I thought he was by far the most eloquent, logical, and clear in the Republican primary debates. I was interested in him and Leiberman at the time. But Keyes appears to have gone far to extremist in where he stands now. Chuck Baldwin is definitely too religious right-wing for me as well. I won't even remotely consider those running for the Socialist, Communist, PLS, or Green Parties.
So where the heck does this leave me. I guess trying to figure out which is at least closest to where I stand on the many issues. If I can find the time between now and Nov 5th, I would like to put it all into a spreadsheet. Starting with where I stand, and then cross referencing those topics with where each candidate stands, and see which maps closely on the most important topics to me, and which I could "live with" that I disagree with.
So, the first step, is to clarify where I stand on each of the topics. I will do that in an upcoming posting very soon.
Cheers!