Reply #84: wonderful......... not! [View All]

[apnu]

Once again, we see that Americans will insist on making their votes on one single issue! more often than not. Everybody is guilty of this... the righties, lefties, centrists, independents, and swingers all often vote for a candidate on one issue alone.

Has our species fallen down so much in intelligence? Can we not consider more than one thing at a time? It stuns me, we have the problem solving skills to split atoms, and at the same time, we have the intellectual density to only vote on one issue...

Not all people vote this way, but many, many, many do. Being turned off by one candidate because of one statement should persuade you away from him or her. Give Kerry a chance, or toss your hat with a doomed presidential bid of Nader, or support * and enjoy being raped, politically, when * gets another term.

Running for President is a very complex operation, the main goal being collecting as many popular votes as necessary to gain the most Electoral College votes to win the office. And as such, the candidate must be appealing to a very wide cross section of Americans. Look at * for example, he's trying to say he's environmentally friendly, and he wants to send food and support to the poorer sections of the world. That sounds like he's trying to capture a bunch of the green/liberal vote as he can. Kerry will do the same thing, because he as no other choice but to compromise on issues!

It boggles my mind when we tear down our leaders for making compromises, yet our whole nation is founded on compromise, and our system of laws and rights are a series of compromises. Geez...