Spinoff of my other thread: #1 reason why your voting Kerry?

[southernleftylady]

:) since my other thread got so many responces ill do this one :)

[MercutioATC]

1. He's not Bush.

That's it.

[southernleftylady]

2. LOL i wonder how many of these ill get ;)

would you have voted republican if it wasnt bush though?

[MercutioATC]

8. Ok, he's not Bush and he's a Democrat.

Better?

:hi:

[southernleftylady]

11. hehehe

:* :hug:

[unfrigginreal]

4. Same here

[Capn Sunshine]

34. That's the only reason

NOT Bush.
ABB man.


Lots of work to do after the election.

[no name no slogan]

41. What he says

The REAL work begins Nov 3.

[Old and In the Way]

3. He's the Bush antidote.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

5. he is not dumb.

[SheilaT]

6. I would have been voting

for the Democratic candidate no matter who he would have been. While I've occasionally voted for a Republican somewhere else on the ballot, I have only voted for Dems for president since I started voting in 1976.

So in a way, my vote doesn't count. Bush was NEVER going to have my vote. Any Democrat would.

[Not Me]

7. I like to hear the truth from my president

n/t

[Warpy]

19. I like to hear a president be able to prounounce the truth

[shaolinmonkey]

9. I feel that my president should be smarter than I am.

There are a bunch of good reasons to vote for Kerry. But first and foremost in my mind is that George W Bush may be the dumbest man ever to hold the office of president (by a huge margin). How could we end up with someone dumber than Quayle?

[Paradise]

10. kerry's a sincerely good person, a true patriot, experienced, qualified,

a fighter, and he'll work his heart out for us! :)

[southernleftylady]

12. This is my reason too! :) nt

[Paradise]

27. awww, you're so nice! (said with sincerity) :) n/t

[smiley_glad_hands]

13. He likes to snowboard and is a Decorated Vietnam Vet. eom

[barb162]

14. need to get the country back to normal

back to the Democrats, truth, facts, ETC.

[JNelson6563]

15. He's the Democratic nominee

and he's a 500% improvement over the idiot usurper. While I am not in love with Kerry, I look forward to having a lucid, coherent president again.

Go Dems! Win back the WH and the Congress! :toast:

Julie--dated Dean and in an arranged marriage with Kerry

[unfrigginreal]

18. LOL

Arranged marriage indeed! :loveya:

Go Dems! :toast:

[scarpa43]

16. Before you attack or flame me....

...you should know that I am not behind either Kerry or Bush.

But, most of the comments are why you are NOT voting for Bush rather than why you ARE voting for Kerry. Give me some reasons why Kerry is worth supporting.
I am genuinely interested in knowing what the candidate I vote for, and I do not know enough about either.

I know this sounds like I am trying to stir up trouble by my intentions are really educational.

Just to make a point, my main concern with Bush is his continuing effort to outlaw gay marriage, doesn't the govt have better things to do?
And concerning both Bush and Kerry's military service, who cares?
I could care less what the CEO of my company was doing more that 30 years ago. Right now, can he run my company? To me, now is what matters, not what you did when you were 18.

Again my point is, I am not some kind of jerk starting crap just to make people mad, I genuinely want to know about the candidates. As I sit here now, I would probably not vote for anyone since I do not know about them, besides I am in Texas and there is no way Bush will lose here...

OK, that is it, let me have it...

[JohnKleeb]

17. well what are your key issues?

[Zero Gravitas]

22. But Bush IS the problem

Bush s incompetent, reckless, dangerous and thinks he is above the law. Our very democracy is at stake. So Kerry gets my vote (and for the first time ever my financial support) because he, as the Democratic Nominee, is the only candidate who can save the country from Bush and his corrupt cronies.

[Vickers]

33. "I could care less what the CEO of my company was doing more..."

"...that 30 years ago."

The difference is, you ain't gotta work for that company.

Now, you can say, hey, you can also leave this country, but guess what? I served the military honorably for 8 years (and actually showed up!) so fuck him, I ain't gonna leave my country. I have a vested interest, and I come about my love for the USA honestly.

As long as that ignorant fuckstick Georgie is "in charge" (sic), we as a country are in trouble.

[cmf]

20. He's qualified to do the job

he has a brain (half a brain would be an improvement over *), he understands foreign policy, he cares about the environment, and last but not least he's a Democrat.

[Mr. McD]

21. I don't vote Republican

Never:)

[AntiCoup2K4]

23. Supreme Court, obviously

Second reason would be that I hope his environmental policies would be much better than the Bush Fraudministration.

Other than those two things, I see very little change coming from a Kerry administration :(

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Hate to let my nose clamp rust.

I don't have to use it on the off year elections because I have a progressive rep and progressive senators. But, every 4 years the DLC trots out the usual "I'm not a liberal" candidate and I have the opportunity to make use of it once again. 2004 is not proving to be an exception to the rule.

[in_cog_ni_to]

25. He's the Dem nominee.

ABB includes a ham sandwich. I would vote for Mr. Ham Sandwich. :hi:

[PatriotGames]

26. Hope.

[Paradise]

28. I like that! :) n/t

[ikojo]

29. I'll be truthful...I am not enamored by John Kerry...

He's too bushlite for me but he is NOT Bush so he has my vote in November. Of course that makes it easy for him, knowing so many are voting for him as a way of voting against Bush, he can continue the rightward shift of the Democratic Party.

If Kerry wins we to the left of the DLC will need to be more vigilant. We cannot lie down as many progressives did in 1992, thinking they had a place at Clinton's table, they failed to hold him accountable on things such as gays in the military and welfare reform.

[noamnety]

30. brains, hearts and tongues

1. The Winter Soldiers speech. He totally won my heart with that. If you haven't heard it, go listen: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/30/1510259&mode=thread&tid=25

1. He has a good heart. Witness Bush catching a fish specifically for his dog to torment, vs. Kerry releasing a moth unharmed into the air. That says more about their characters than anything else. No prison abuses on Kerry's watch. No Gitmo.

1. Iran Contra. Kerry starts the investigation, uncovers money laundering, support of terrorism, drug running, etc. And wtf, Bush1 pardons them, Bush2 rehires them. One candidate is fighting against terrorists, and the other is tongue-kissing them. wtf.

[mzmolly]

31. Hate to say it, but it's GEORGE BUSH. #2 reason, he's got a solid record

of working for progressive causes. :hi:

[Generator]

32. He's my man

Since that convention speech, since 50,000 yes 50,000 of my fellow Portlanders saw him, since he picked Edwards, whom I adore, since he was able to make peace and get Howard Dean, Kuchinch on his side, since he choose that Bruce Springsteen song, since I learned he is a Sag(like me) a fighter,a loner (like me) and married as his 2nd wife someone five years older than him who won't shut up (like me) since I learned that his ex-wife is rooting for him to win, since I learned that he saved a man's life and that man(formerly a Repuke) stands shoulder to shoulder when he gives speeches, since I see that his daughters are smart and adore him, because he understands that we need him now and that he must win......

Yeah it's personal.

[against all enemies]

35. The George W. Bush Administration.

[tedoll78]

36. I have The Mother of All Reasons:

The Supreme Court.

A look at the retirement landscape:

O'Connor: constantly besieged by retirement rumors.

Stevens: the oldest person serving on the court. Appointed by Ford in 1976. Constant health rumors. Wife begging him to retire.

Ginsburg: cancer patient, currently in remission.

Scalia: occassional rumors, usually related to him not being happy with the pay that a USSC justice recieves. Ugh..

Rehnquist: appointed by NIXON. Yes, Nixon. This is the epitome of what a bad USSC appointee can do. 31 years of damage, and counting. Sick.

Let's take perhaps the three most likely retirees: Stevens, O'Connor, and Rehnquist.

If Bush appoints their replacements, we likely end-up with this court:
5 Conservatives
1 Moderate
3 Liberals

If Kerry appoints their replacements, we likely end-up with this court:
6 Liberals
1 Moderate
2 Conservatives

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I worry about the Supreme Court because their terms are lifelong. The average term served right now is 17 years. So we're not just voting for Bush or Kerry or someone else; assuming 2 appointees (a pretty safe assumption this time), we're voting for (on average) 38 years of decision-making.

I also worry about the Supreme Court because they touch EVERYTHING that's largely controversial. If legislation is remotely controversial, it will be challenged in court. And a good Supreme Court would be there to knock-down the bad laws and prop-up the good ones.

Gay rights, women's rights, racial equality, freedom of speech, freedom of/from religion, detainees' rights, workers' rights.. it's ALL touched in profound ways by the Supreme Court, and it's fundamentally important that we remember this when the time comes to vote. Even Clinton, as conservative in some areas as he was, managed to put-up some pretty liberal court members. If he can, certainly a Massachusetts liberal can.

We're staring directly at the possibility of controlling the court system for the next 20, perhaps 30 years. Let's not blow it.

[AngryAmish]

37. Bush is Hitler

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[ScreamingMeemie]

39. Because he is closer to my political ideologies than Bush is.

Easy peasy! :hi:

[julialnyc]

40. Because of the new cabinet he will bring with him!

Because not only will he replace Bush, but he will replace:
Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Fieth, Mueller, the list can go on and on!!!