Who are you voting for in "08"?

Question

I am voteing for Mitt Romney (R) I think he will change the u.s. into a beter place!

Answer 1

I have not seen a candidate who I believe can change the direction of this country. However if a candidate comes along who favors closed borders, throwing the illegals out, balancing the budget, better relations with countries in our hemisphere and believes in a women's right to chose, then he will get my vote.

Answer 2

Well I will not be voting for a woman, who has already served 8 years in the white house and screwed it up. And I am not voting for a Muslim....Yeah, Yeah....he says he is this and that now......He was born and raised a Muslim Just like bin laden. So No, Not turning this country over to a Religion that despises us.....and get this.....barrak obama, is a politician....which means he lies. If anyone votes for him.....then they are allowing terrorist free entry back to this country.

Answer 3

BILL RICHARDSON!!!!!!!

If you want to learn more go to www.richardsonforpresident.com

or read the article below:

March 4, 2007

Neither Clinton, nor Obama
Rochester Post-Bulletin

- David Brooks (New York Times)

So there I was, sitting in my office, quietly contemplating suicide. I was watching a cattle call of Democratic presidential candidates on C-Span. In their five-minute speeches, they were laying it on thick with poll-tested, consultant-driven cliches of the Our Children Are Our Future variety. The thought of having to spend the next two years listening to this drivel.

Then Bill Richardson walked onstage. He was dressed differently—in slacks and a sports jacket. He told jokes that didn't seem repeated for the 5,000th time. He seemed recognizably human. He gave the best presentation.

Is it possible to imagine him as a leading candidate for the nomination?

It's easy to picture him rising to the top. He is the most experienced person running for president. He served in Congress for 14 years. He was the energy secretary (energy's kind of vital).

He's a successful two-term governor who was re-elected with 69 percent of the vote in New Mexico, a red state. Moreover, he's a governor with foreign policy experience. He was U.N. ambassador. He worked in the State Department. He's made a second career of negotiating on special assignments with dictators like Saddam, Castro and Kim Jong Il. He negotiated a truce in Sudan.

Most of all, he's not a senator. Since 1961, 40 sitting senators have run for president and their record is 0-40. A senator may win this year, but you'd be foolish to assume it.

When it comes to policy positions, he's perfectly positioned—not by accident—to carry liberals and independents. As governor, he's covered the normal Democratic bases: He raised teacher pay, he expanded children's health insurance, he began programs to stall global warming, he built a light rail line.

But he also cut New Mexico's top income tax rate from 8.2 percent to 4.9 percent. He handed out tax credits to stimulate economic growth. (He's the only Democrat completely invulnerable on the tax cut issue.) He supports free trade, with reservations. And he not only balanced the budget—he also ran a surplus.

On cultural issues, Richardson has the distinct advantage of not setting off any culture war vibes. He was in college in the late 1960s, but he was listening to the Beach Boys, not Janis Joplin. He was playing baseball in the Cape Cod League, not going to Woodstock. He idolized Hubert Humphrey, not Eugene McCarthy.

Richardson is actually something of a throwback pol—a Richard Daley or Fiorello La Guardia who doesn't treat politics as a moral crusade. That might appeal this year.

On the nuts and bolts of the campaign, he has some advantages as well. He won't have the $150 million war chests that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will have. On the other hand, he won't have the gigantic apparatuses that fundraising on that scale requires. While those campaigns may be bloated, over-managed and remote, Richardson has the potential to be small and nimble.

Furthermore, he could generate waves of free media the way that John McCain did in 2000. He's a reporter's favorite—candid, accessible and fun to be around. "I'm a real person, not canned. I don't have a whole bunch of advisers. I'm a little overweight, though I'm trying to dress better," he told me last week. So far, rumors of personal peccadilloes are unfounded.

Finally, there is the matter of his personal style. This is his biggest drawback. He's baggy-faced, sloppy (we like our leaders well groomed), shamelessly ambitious and inelegant. On the other hand, once a century or so the Democratic Party actually nominates somebody the average person would like to have a beer with. Bill Richardson is that kind of guy.

He is garrulous, amusing, touchy-feely (to a fault), a little rough-edged and comfortably mass-market. He's Budweiser, not microbrew. It doesn't hurt that he's Hispanic and Western.

In short, when you try to think forward to next winter, you see that this campaign will at some point leave the "American Idol"/"Celebrity Deathmatch" phase. The Clinton-Obama psychodrama may cease to fascinate while the sheer intensity of coverage will create a topsy-turvy series of revolutions.

I wouldn't bet a paycheck on Richardson. But I wouldn't count him out. At the moment, he's the candidate most likely to rise.

Answer 4

I really like Mitt Romney he is just what the Republicans needed. I am still holding out for Hillary

Answer 5

Give me a break no way should you vote Mitt.
Do some research how about Ron Paul or Tom Tancredo.

Answer 6

Mitt 08 MITT ROMNEY 08

Answer 7

D Hunter/Huckabee, Paul or Romney whichever gets the lead, GOP's need to group behind one of these good guys.

Answer 8

Rudy Guliani

Answer 9

well i can't vote but if i could i would probably vote for hillary. she is a very strong leader, and if she is anyting like her husband(politically), she will be able to get the country back on the right track and out of this slump that bush has brought us into.

Answer 10

Let's elect hillary and let another clinton make a joke out of the whitehouse.