[sbarlage07]

Let me start off saying I am not a strong supporter of any one party and honestly consider Ralph Nader to be just as legitimate a candidate as any other.

I personally am a big supporter of Bill Richardson but, unlike most Americans, I am not narrow-minded nor stubborn so it is entirely possible that I will not fully support him a year from now. Governor Richardson would make a great president and seems to be a candidate at the perfect time given his position on foreign policy. His state supports him pretty strongly and he seems to be a good all-around person. For example, he is really against negative campaign ads (attacking opponents). For me to be so high on a candidate who is NOT Pro-life should say a lot.

Hopefully Obama, Clinton, and Guiliani don't dominate the media over the other candidates for the next year like they are now. Guiliani to me would be a bad choice for president mainly because of his positions on key issues. Obama also does not seem to be a top choice in my opinion (although better than some other candidates like Guiliani and Clinton IMO) because of his issues, but he does bring the attitude I want to see in our next president. Unfortunately, attitude alone will not get my vote. I honestly don't know a lot about Clinton off the top of my head but I have heard her speak many times and have seen her stances on issues and I just am turned away.

What are your stances/opinions on the field and have you chosen any positions yet? Hopefully you can name at least a couple candidates not named Obama, Guiliani, Clinton, or Richardson.

[poochee]

I will vote Democrat. I am waiting for the field to narrow down and for the remaining candidates to address issues I am interested. Some issues important today may not be that important in 08. Then I will make my decision. That's my only comment at this time.

[combsdon]

....from your subject choices.......two out of three ain't bad......................

[ekim68]

I think Bill Richardson would be a good president...He looks after the people...A far cry from most politics.

[Wino]

Originally Posted by ekim68

I think Bill Richardson would be a good president...He looks after the people...A far cry from most politics.

Just wait til they discover old Bill is a latino....................using the typical rhetoric, "no body in the southwest will vote for him".................kinda like "no body in the south will vote for Obama". As for me, I'm sticking with my 'duckbilled platypus for president' for the time being.

[ekim68]

Okay, and your 'duckbilled platypus for president' isn't latino....Do we get a hint? Sorry, I'm a long way from you all.....

[Littlefield]

Nobody will beat Hillary for Dems .She has Terry McAuliffe and Bill . Watch and see Obama get blown away by this team . Obama will not be President because his name ends in a vowel,no one has won the Presidency I think I heard except for a few whose name ends in vowel ,and he is black.

[DiSaidSo]

Originally Posted by Wino

Just wait til they discover old Bill is a latino....................using the typical rhetoric, "no body in the southwest will vote for him".................kinda like "no body in the south will vote for Obama". As for me, I'm sticking with my 'duckbilled platypus for president' for the time being.

How come nobody's brought up McCain yet?

[Ciberblade]

I will vote Democrat.
I will vote Libertarian.
I will vote Republican.

[linskyjack]

McCain is finished. In order to win over the extreme right wing primary voters he has thrown his weight behind this absurd surge in Iraq. He had potential, but isn't as "independent" as we thought. Just another politician.

[DiSaidSo]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

McCain is finished. In order to win over the extreme right wing primary voters he has thrown his weight behind this absurd surge in Iraq. He had potential, but isn't as "independent" as we thought. Just another politician.

Um. Aren't they all?

And I don't necessarily think McCain's finished. Giuliani is strong, no doubt... but I'd probably vote for McCain in the primaries. He has earned my respect over and over. I don't agree with him 100%.... but I don't agree with anyone 100%. NOT EVEN YOU, LINSKY!

Originally Posted by Ciber

I will vote Democrat.
I will vote Libertarian.
I will vote Republican.

I will vote Cibertarian.

[TooBad]

Gee, lets let the media determine the winner now, why wait?? Sorry, but this is the dumbest discussion to date. You have over 1 and 1/2 years to go before it is time to vote, other than the primaries (which is where we should be concentrating on to try to avoid the lesser of two evils).

At the current time, I would have a hard time voting for any of the "front runners" as they are all for Amnesty of illegals, most are anti-constitution in one way or another (either the 2nd amendment, the 1st, the 4th, the 5th or the 14th, take your pick). Unless the democrats can put someone up that is actually for the preservation of the USA, I could not in good consience vote for one. I might have to hold my nose to vote republican, but I hope seriously that they will not pick another RINO or worse as their candidate.

[diablo75]

Giuliani, in my opinion, doesn't stand a chance, for the following reasons:

1. He's a republican (look at the 2006 mid-terms for more info)
2. He campaigned on Bushes behalf and helped him become re-elected in 2004.
3. He was a member of the Iraq Study Group, only to have resigned very soon after hearings began, likely because he didn't want to be associated with ANY negative criticism of the war. Which infers that he is for the Iraq war.

I saw a headline recently where he was attempting to get brownie points from New Yorkers taking credit for reducing crime in New York, thanks to stricter gun control. But if you look at the data regarding crime rates across the country, they were all dropping and it wasn't necessarily due to gun control. I just finished reading the book Freakanomics, and it details why crime rates dropped all of a sudden in pretty much every city in the country. But to avoid controversy and changing the subject, I will just say that you should check to see if Wikipedia has an article about the book (or pick up a copy of it from the library), and also to simply look at Giuliani's article on there as well. If there's any person who should be given more credit than anyone else for reduced crime in New York, it's former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

[linskyjack]

Could that have something to do with the fact that the Federal Government funded the hiring of 10,000 new cops during Giulianis reign?

[katonca]

I'm voting Morman