Reply #18: Combing both yours and Ginny's points [View All]

[karynnj]

-Bad Democrat running the country, decent Republican - It may come down to how I value what's at stake. Last year, given the health and ages of the Supreme Court justices, there may have been voting based on philosophy of the party ignoring grave leadership problems. The court does affect the country for generations. Unfortunately, a large group of pro-life people might have voted for Bush even if he made chimp noises as answers to all the debate questions due to their perception that he would pick judges who would over turn Roe vs Wade and this might be a once in a generation oportunity to do this.

I would hope that I would show the character and open mindness that Ginny's father-in-law did - choosing the better leader partially because the other leader was so bad. He could count on a Republican Congress constraining Kerry so that may have made it easier. If that were also my theoretical situation (a Democratic Congress), I would hope I would reject a seriously flawed Democrat for a well qualified Republican - even if he was one of the 10 most conservative.

It really shouldn't come to this in that in theory, you would think there would be a primary challange to such a bad leader.