Reply #60: Ah, so voting for Reagan is now equivalent to adultery. [View All]

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Nice comparison. That one made me laugh, but in a good way.

No, the point is that I am not going to make a decision on a political candidate based on one issue or one event alone, and I was suggesting that other people consider everything, not their knee-jerk reaction to one event in the life of a candidate.

My point was that we should consider as much information as possible and to not just discount candidates because of some carefully selected points made by their opposition or because they once voted for a president we despise.

Further, I am certain that you could select specific events in the life's history of every candidate and use that as sole justification not to vote for them.

I guess, in hindsight, the real point of my posting was to tell people, "Look, don't dismiss candidates because someone was shouting at the top of their lungs, 'Hey, this dope voted for Reagan. What the hell was he thinking?' or 'Hey, he supported Newt Gingrich' or 'Hey, he was pro-life until 2002.'"