Reply #110: I feel your pain [View All]

[Wickerman]

sorry to use the tired Clinton cliche, but I do understand that feeling. Its expressed in every forum on this site by many, many folks.

The simple truth is that there is no one size fits all candidate or forum. If you ever find it, run like hell because they are lying out of their ass.

I've been a life long Dem, all except that first time I could've voted. I voted John Anderson. It felt real good at the time. I beleived that I made an excellent decision and really demonstrated my anger at Carter for things I realized later I was misinformed about. So, me and a few million others made a big maistake and Reagan took over from perhaps the most sincere and intelligent president the US has ever experienced - at least in my lifetime.

In 1979 I learned the folly of seeking a perfect candidate. Never, in my mind, has the time for compromise and an ability to see the good in a candidate beyond all the disappointments been so important. 4 more years of Bush will be devastating to everyone but the top 5% of the wealth of this country. Forget gun rights, we won't have need of any of the amendments when he and Johnnie A. and Dickie are done.

At the local level I can support candidates that are more ideallogically pure and make distinctions on the candidates gun stances - at the national level I have to support the person that will make this planet the healthiest for my children. At this point weapons are not at the top of the healthy planet list.