Liberals: What are your Top 5 criteria in choosing a presidential candidate?

Question

This question is just for liberals. I ask the same question to conservatives in a separate question...if you're a conservative, please answer that other question and don't take this question as a forum for liberal-bashing.

Answer 1

I 100% agree with Lettie D.

I think the cost of living is way too high compared to most income and the rise of space between the rich and the poor is getting too great. I think we must help ourselves before we help others. (On simple terms, It's like having a dentist with yellow, black, crooked and missing teeth. How would you like that?) I do not think we should force our ways simply because we believe it is better and superior, especially to those in the middle east, whom have very different views and religion.
Also, I'm very against the decision to stop social security for some young, current and future generations. Since my mother has Lupus I know how much this money has an impact on families, as she can not work due to it, and also has an amputated foot. This also ties along with stem-cell research, as it is the only known (developing) cure for Lupus, this auto-immune disease. Discovering an easier and safer process for transplants would be amazing, as it helps not only Lupus and all auto-immune disease (AIDS, for instance), by creating a new immune system, but also to other diseases as well.

One thing I would add though, is I am Pro-Choice. My #1 reason is that I think women's rights should not be limited like this. I believe that abortion should be legal FOR THIS SAKE, and I know some believe it is wrong, but some do believe they should go through with this process. As I say, I am pro-choice, not pro-abortion. If you have the option, you have the choice TO or NOT to do this, and I think there is no arguing to that.

Global Warming issues are also at the top of my list.
I think that instead of offering light bulbs that waste energy and light bulbs that save it, we should slowly start stopping the development of energy-wasters and pick up the development of energy-savers, so that soon, prices go down because they are not so unique and that they will be the most common light bulb type offered.
We need to find an alternate energy source. We are using too much coal, etc, and why should we waste our time using nonrenewable resources that won't be back for thousands of years while we can use crops, like corn, for fuel? How wonderful of a discovery that is, and we aren't even using it.
I do not believe that we should waste our time arguing over whether what scientists say will happen to the globe (temperature, weather patterns, sea levels, melting ice...) is true or not, why take the chance? This is a lesson learned from Katrina, the people and the government delayed reaction time because a tragedy like the one proposed had never happened before. Chances were taken, and millions of lives were lost. Do we want to take those same chances? It is much safer to worry about the globe, just in case. Otherwise, we could be destroying it. Even if this change was natural, we are not positive at the moment and there is no more damage we can cause by attempting to reverse what we have done. (As an asthma patient, I feel strongly about this on a personal level, also, not just a global one).

Answer 2

1. Getting our soldiers out of Iraq (where we shouldn't have been
in the first place).
2. Health care which should be a right and not a privilege for the
few.
3. Tax cuts to help the Middle Class and not the Corporations.
4. A life-long top notch education program which would allow
those who make the grades a free education.
5. Last, but dearest to my heart, stem cell research because my son is a Paralyzed Veteran of America. We can send them over there and get them paralyzed, but we can't support the research that would help them walk again. Ironic, isn't it?

Answer 3

a million) Very severe about preventing unlawful Immigration 2) For the relief of authorities (obviously conservative) 3) for protecting the Judeo-Christian Ethics base that the country/structure became in accordance to (ie sanctity of marriage) 4) professional-life (no inbetween, ifs ands or buts) 5) Hawkish, professional gun i imagine morality is the overal key. at the same time as the party lines spoil morality will be triumphant. I don;t sense that there are quite some conservatives accessible...extra regularly than not liberals and moderates. i go with someone who will proceed to guard out united states of america and could proceed the challenge if mandatory so as that our, the troops, sacrifices are not to any extent further without closure. no longer one hundred% inspired with absolutely everyone so a recommendations