Vote for President NOW!!!
Yeah, you heard me right; Patrick Ruffini has a straw poll going here:
August Straw Poll: The Big One
If you’re going to vote for the former first lady, don’t bother going; this poll is for people who are planning to vote Republican (which is me, depending on who gets the nomination). It’s a two-part poll. You vote among the candidates on the main ballot, and then you answer what you’d do if one of the “fantasy candidates” ran. Here are the candidates:
MAIN BALLOT
George Allen
Sam Brownback
Bill Frist
Newt Gingrich
Rudy Giuliani
Chuck Hagel
Mike Huckabee
John McCain
George Pataki
Mitt Romney
Tom Tancredo
FANTASY CANDIDATES
Keep My Vote the Same
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Condoleezza Rice
Fred Thompson
The tally as of right now has Rudy running first among the main candidates, with my choice, George Allen, running a semi-distant second. Switch it to the “fantasy candidates”, and Condi is running away with it (this, of course, from the bigoted Republican party. Suggestion: any conversation into which a liberal tosses the word “bigot” or “homophobe”, or variations of those words, should be met with derisive laughter.).
Now, for my own personal evaluation:
Candidates I Would Vote For:
George Allen
Sam Brownback
Mike Huckabee – Actually, he might be my first choice, ahead of George Allen, if I think about it. Great man.
Jeb Bush – I doubt he’s electable, because of his last name. Seriously.
Candidates I Might Vote For, Depending on How They Answered Certain Questions:
Bill Frist
Chuck Hagel
John McCain (yes, you heard me)
Mitt Romney
Tom Tancredo
Condi Rice (abortion, Condi? Where stand ye?)
Fred Thompson
Candidates I Would Not Vote For Under Any Circumstances (And the Reason):
Newt Gingrich – You have got to be kidding, right? We lose all semblance of moral high ground with this vote.
Rudy Giuliani - A liberal Democrat who’s tough on crime (and showed good leadership post 9/11). But a liberal Democrat nonetheless. Not a chance under the sun I vote for this man. Zero.
George Pataki – A duller version of Rudy Giuliani.
Dick Cheney – Look in the dictionary under “hopelessly unelectable”, and tell me if you don’t see Dick Cheney’s picture (right beside Newt’s, by the way).
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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