Original Post Date: Jan 6, 2008
It is just me but are undecided independent voters just annoying to watch? It irritates me that the news media puts so much emphasis on these people. Take for instance the undecided voters in New Hampshire. I was watching a group of them getting interviewed on the Today Show and they were asked who they were at least learning towards to vote and some said they were probably going to be undecided all the way up to the ballot box. Yea, that is exactly how I want my next president to be picked, by some slap jaw yokel making his mind up at the last minute. I feel the same way with the way Iowan Democrats feel that the best way to pick the next president is to put everyone room and peer pressure people to vote for your candidate.
These voters have had since September 5, 2007 (when Fred Thompson the last candidate to throw his hat in) to at least be leaning towards someone. To say that with all the information out there on the internet, TV, magazines, and other media outlet; where in this day of age you can just "google" a person's name and find out everything good and bad about them; where they stand on all the issues and what experience they have in the political arena; that these people still don't have at least have a person they are leaning towards just shows how really stupid these people are. They either are that stupid or they just want to be on TV.
I have at least decided.
I consider myself an an independent that leans both left and right on certain issues. I am more conservative on issues like gun control, health care, immigration, and government spending. I personally feel that abortion should be illegal however I don't base my entire decision on who to vote for on this issue. I am more liberal when it comes to the death penalty, animal welfare, and the environment.
With all those issues going through my mind I have consider voting for Guliaini, Hunter, Romney, Paul and Thompson. I have even considering changing my party and voting for Obama and Edwards. Guliani seems to be more intrusive it terms of how he governed New York (even though in some cases it work very well). Hunter is out after Iowa. Romney seems to just saying what he thinks people want to hear (Also this might be superficial but out of his 5 children not one is at least in the National Guard). I disagree with Paul's foreign policy. Thompson I could see voting for. Obama is too left on issues like Health Care, Immigration and it is hard for me to vote for a man that doesn't have any foreign policy experience and if he truly wanted to end this war he would have NOT voted several times for the funding.
However I personally feel with that McCain is the closest candidate that believes in my views. I supported the surge and it took guts for McCain to do the same because during that time it look like political suicide for him to support it. He is the only republican candidate that realizes the importance of global warming. He supports putting more international pressure on the region of Darfur. He has the highest rating of any republican candidate on animal welfare issues. He has repeatedly crossed party lines and has supported issues that he knew could be political suicide with republican voters because he believe in them. Even though I don't agree with everything he says I feel he is the closest to my overall stance on issues and I personally like his character. Also out of all the candidate he has visited Iraq (to see the situation first hand) more than any other candidate. Edwards, Thompson and Giuliani have never went to Iraq. Obama and Romney has been there once, Clinton three times, and finally McCain has been there 6 times since the war began.
With all those conflicting stances I have on issues, I found a candidate I that can support. I can hardly believe a person where their primary is less than a week away still doesn't know who they are voting for. If I could say one thing to them I could encourage them NOT to vote because I don't really want a person that didn't take this process seriously and do their homework months before to help pick the next leader of the free world. I mean you don't need to know exactly who but at least have it narrowed down to two people or be leaning in one direction.
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