Lieberman or McCain?

[ktowntennesseedem]

Not anything specific, not asking which would get your vote for president, just who do you prefer? Between the two, who gets a higher approval rating in your opinion? (Sorry, "none-of-the-above" is not an option!)

[punpirate]

1. Sorry, neither...

... both are deficient human beings who don't give a shit about the people of this country.

That's what counts to me--does a candidate care about the people. Both of these candidates are whores to corps. They are anathema to me. I care about neither, and would vote for neither.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Why bother voting if that's the only choice?

I wouldn't waste my time voting for either of them.

[ktowntennesseedem]

7. If I were voting at the polls, absolutely

I'd stay home on election day--in fact, I'd probably be packing my belongings for an extended trip to Canada. But just on the merits of which is the lesser of two evils--I'm even having trouble answering that one right now.

[Mass]

3. I would prefer none. but if I have to choose, I choose the one who has

a record in other issues like civil rights, choice, ... rather than the one who supports the other side of the road, given that they both support the Bush foreign policy.

[MarianJack]

4. I'd Fill Up a Barf Bag or 2 ...

...and pick Lieberman!

The ultimate reason is that I believe that he at least has the courage of his convictions. Seeing mccain ass kiss ** knowing what the bushies did to him and how the bushies feel about him and how he feels about them is WAY too much for me! mccain is out for mccain. The remarkable thing is that he doesn't seem aware that everybody who gets in bed with the bush family gets shafted majorly (except the saudis, of course!).

[Demit]

5. Wow. Your username should be Hobson :)

Lieberman might be more trustworthy, if you apply the "you may not agree with me but you know where I stand" measure. McCain seems to get the intuitive edge, because of his maverick image, but he's shown himself to be too calculating too often. Ultimately not trustworthy, I think, no matter what we hope he really is like on the inside. I gotta go with Lieberman, who is reliably Democratic in, at least, some issues (I'm told).

I'm thinking of those creepy pictures of each of them, with Bush. Lieberman got kissed, true, but McCain HUGGED BACK.

[Mend]

6. Canada....if it is between those two, I'm outta here. eom

[ktowntennesseedem]

8. Ha! Great minds do think alike!

See my reply to Sentinel Chicken at post #7. And I'm no big fan of snow, so I hope it never comes to that!

[Mend]

10. it's only 60 degrees this morning in south Florida and I am

bundling up for work. Hope I don't need to choose between "snot and barf" because I don't do cold very well.

[Clark2008]

27. Hey... we can carpool out.

My fiance and I would be outta here, too.

:hi: ktown!

[ktowntennesseedem]

31. Hey, Clark2008!

Yeah, I wouldn't driving the carpool, heck, I'll even drive the bus. Just might need some help with winter heating bills!

(Wonder how much chili and chicken-noodle soup I'd need to make it through a Canadian winter?)

[Eugene]

9. Ugh. Joementum by a whisker.

I'll take an unreliable Democrat before John McCain.
McCain is a true Repug when it really counts.

The more important issue is separating the Republicans from power.
Any Democrat, even a DINO, in the White House is an improvement.

[marmar]

11. Canada!

Oh Canada, my new home and adopted land, true patriot love, in all her sons' command.....

[bigscott]

12. sorry neither

the netherlands for me

[marmar]

14. The Netherlands would be my second choice....

Canada gets the nod because raw herring scares me.

[Demit]

13. I thought this was a good question. Why'd you punk out on your own poll?

Now you say you would pick none of the above. With politics the state it's in today, hard choices are going to have to be made. You'd sit out an election? What good would that do?

[ktowntennesseedem]

38. Good point, DemIt All.

As I originally stated, this wasn't about any election, just a general "who do you hate the least" question. But it looks like a lot of us were asking that question in the context of a voting booth, and in that context I really couldn't cast my vote for either of them.

However, you're right, and I should still exercise my right to vote. So I'll probably go vote for a third party or other independent candidate--THEN go home and pack my bags for Canada!!!

(Just kidding, anyway--couldn't afford the trip, let alone the relocation--so I guess you're stuck with me!)

[shaniqua6392]

15. Lieberman is not a Democrat.

He is a Republican mole in the Democratic Party. McCain is too easily led by the Republican pressures put upon him. No matter what Bush does he remains silent and for someone who knows the horrors of war, he just can not speak out against this debacle in Iraq.

[Champion Jack]

16. neither

They both suck

[zbdent]

17. Is this similar to a poll about

lethal injection vs guillotine . . .?

[ktowntennesseedem]

37. Ouch!!!

[zbdent]

46. Actually, it's more like

which would be less painful to kill yourself with . . .

[mzteris]

18. ewwwwwwwwwwww........

:puke:

[ktowntennesseedem]

33. Sorry to make you ill!

They both turn my stomach, too, but I thought it would make an interesting DU debate!

[bluedawg12]

19. They are one and the same guy- talking out of two mouths

Neocon Joe and Neo-neo-con-wannabe- Sell-out-John are both wrong.

Two headed hydra.

[nickshepDEM]

20. Lieberman. He's better on domestic issues.

[Totally Committed]

21. They both suck.

Lack of integrity is something to be despised, and each of them, in their own way, sold out in that department long ago.

TC

[kansasblue]

22. stick pins under my nails or drill a hole in my toes, hmmm let me think

[durrrty libby]

23. Haha......you can't make me pick!

They are probably better people than almost any republican out there, but I just don’t care for either one.

Joe seems to have misplaced his democratic ideals and I have lost the respect I use to have for McCain.

[xkenx]

24. Lieberman May Be Rethug-lite on foreign policy, but

McCain is pure Rethug and Bush's Ho to boot. McCain has a nearly pure RW voting record, and is a hypocrite Ho for his Bush-hugging, and for his campaigning in CA with Arnold SchwarzeRENEGER who amassed huge amounts of corporate money to promote his ill-founded propositions. So much for campaign finance reform. PTUI !!! When are Dems. going to figure out that McHo is no friend of anything Dem?

[applegrove]

25. It is just that "one thing" with Lieberman. That one thing.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. Ugh, if those are the choices, I'm voting Green and then

putting out feelers to my fellow translators around the world to help me move to some other country.

A Lieberman-McCain race would be, for me, the final sign that American democracy is dead and that elections have the integrity level of pro wrestling.

[DarienComp]

28. Eating a bowl of shit, or eating a bowl of vomit?

Between the two, which gets a higher approval rating in your opinion? (Sorry, "none-of-the-above" is not an option!) Sorry, "none-of-the-above" is not an option.

:silly:

[ktowntennesseedem]

35. Good point! You got me!

[mndfler]

29. With a gun to my head, Lieberman

Because as bad as he may be, he's still better than McCain. I'm surprised by how many Democrats, even those here on DU, have a high opinion of McCain. Do you not realize how amazingly conservative he is?

[ktowntennesseedem]

32. I just hope it's a water pistol! Dont Shoot!!!

McCain, compared to a lot of repubs, is quite moderate. But that's about like saying hippos fly faster than elephants because they don't weigh as much.

I'd take any DINO over any kind of repub; at least they would vote my way some of the time. Still a tough pill to swallow.

[TheWraith]

30. Lieberman, by far.

I have no particular liking for him, but no matter how bad his voting record is sometimes, he's still twice as good as the best Republican.

[lovelaureng]

34. Neither one,

they both suck!

[Renew Deal]

36. It would have to be Lieberman

Kill me now!

[Douglas Carpenter]

39. Why not compare their records first -- then decide?

They both hold equally deplorable positions on Iraq. But let's compare on other issues.

link:

from project vote smart - link

for Lieberman

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=S0141103

for McCain link:

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=S0061103

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action League 100 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action League 0 percent in 2004.

2003-2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 83 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 22 percent in 2003-2004.

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 75 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Americans for Democratic Action 35 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the AFL-CIO 83 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the AFL-CIO 33 percent in 2004.


2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the United Auto Workers 92 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the United Auto Workers 9 percent in 2004.

2003-2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the National Education Association 88 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the National Education Association 35 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Human Rights Campaign 88 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Human Rights Campaign 25 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 95 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 14 percent in 2003-2004.

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Arab American Institute 50 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Arab American Institute 0 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Family Research Council 0 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Family Research Council 67 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Christian Coalition 0 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Christian Coalition 83 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the American Conservative Union 0 percent in 2004.

2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the American Conservative Union 72 percent in 2004.

2003-2004 Senator Lieberman supported the interests of the Concerned Women for America 8 percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004 Senator McCain supported the interests of the Concerned Women for America 100 percent in 2003-2004.

[ktowntennesseedem]

43. Good work!

Perhaps if this actually WERE a voting question in some hypothetical election, it would be helpful to put up such stats without their names, and ask everyone to choose "Candidate-A" and "Candidate-B." Looks like a no-brainer to me.

Thanks, D.C.!!!

[BlueIris]

44. What's this, a post based on facts? I think I have the vapors.

Thanks, man. We need more of that around these parts.

[LittleClarkie]

40. As someone on Kos once said

Where's the "gun in mouth" option?

[Spirochete]

41. What's this poll for?

Which one would I rather bludgeon to death with the severed head of the other? flip a coin.

[ktowntennesseedem]

42. Just a meaningless poll that I thought might spur some lively debate.

And I have not been disappointed!

"Which one would I rather bludgeon to death with the severed head of the other?"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[leesa]

45. Neither. Both are traitors to our country.

[mtnester]

47. Really should have an " I will pass on both, thank you"

category. It is like asking me to chose whether I will have the shits or the vomits.

[Bridget Burke]

48. In the voting booth, Leiberman.

Yellow Dog Democrat speaking here.

But a few shots of tequila would be necessary. Before & After.

[mmonk]

49. That's no choice

for honest people.