Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:16:01
The presidential candidate I am officially supporting is…
...no one. Yet.
We never should have allowed these numbskulls to start campaigning in 2006. Why did we let it start so early? What the hell is wrong with us? Just. Say. No. No one should be able to talk about getting elected in 2008 until two thousand and frigging eight. You want some campaign finance reform? Start with that. No candidate for elected office may spend money, or have money spent on his or her behalf, outside of the recognized Julian calendar year in which he or she seeks election. One sentence. How’s that for a simple frigging law? Can we do that?
Posted by JimK at 02:16 PM on September 06, 2007
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#2 Posted by mgnmfrc1 
on 09/06 at 04:18 PM -
Can we do that?
Uhmmm, you want politicians to limit the amount of time they can illegally raise money for their campaigns? But we have to rely on the politicians to pass the law? We just need a Running Man style of election process. Whoever makes it to the end, wins. Then they get implanted with an internal bomb. We the people get to do a American Idol type call in vote and when they fuck up they blow up.
#3 Posted by JimK on 09/06 at 05:05 PM -
We just need a Running Man style of election process. Whoever makes it to the end, wins. Then they get implanted with an internal bomb. We the people get to do a American Idol type call in vote and when they fuck up they blow up.
Genius. Pure genius.
#4 Posted by Drumwaster on 09/06 at 06:40 PM -
We never should have allowed these numbskulls to start campaigning in 2006.
Kind of hard to stop them, y’know… Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, etc…
We should have started making fun of them earlier on. Shame might work where appeal to common sense won’t.
#6 Posted by JimK on 09/06 at 10:03 PM -
Kind of hard to stop them, y’know… Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, etc…
We should have started making fun of them earlier on. Shame might work where appeal to common sense won’t.
That’s totally kind of (is that a contradiction?) what I meant. We, the People, shouldn’t have played into it. However, even before McCain/Feingold we have always regulated the finances of campaigning...why would limiting them to *spending donated money* only in the calendar year of the election violate the First?
#7 Posted by witchndigger on 09/06 at 11:55 PM -
McCain/Feingold is backwards. anyone should be allowed to give any amount of money at any time. The Gov match should be killed. The books should all be open. We should know at any point in time who gave what to whom. Not after the fact, because we get postal workers giving thousands then somehow the person that gave them the money to give leaves the country. After the fact, if the books are always open that is less likely to happen. Monks will not give thousands.
But I digress. Sorry to go on a rant there.
#8 Posted by Drumwaster on 09/07 at 12:16 AM -
why would limiting them to *spending donated money* only in the calendar year of the election violate the First?
Because with the current crop of Donks, forcing them to spend their own money on campaigns would give a HUGE bonus to those rich enough to campaign on their own dime.
Such as Hillary! and John Fonda Kerry and Adriana Huffingpaint.
That would make it a plutocracy.
That would also be a violation of the rights of those wishing to exercise their freedom of speech by financially endorsing a cause or candidate.
The same reasons that McCain/Feingold is such a bullshit law, but from the other direction.
#9 Posted by Joe R. 
on 09/07 at 02:23 AM -
I support whichever candidate results in divided government, which at this point would likely be the Republican nominee. I don’t honestly give a flying fuck which one. And if, by some bizarre turn of events, it seems that Republicans will retake control of Congress, I’ll march right out and vote for Hillary.
I am Hard. Fucking. Core.
#10 Posted by Buzzion on 09/07 at 09:09 AM -
Hell let’s be honest, the campaign for the 2008 presidency didn’t start in 2006. The MSM began it in November of 2004 when it became 4 more years of Bush.
#11 Posted by Drumwaster on 09/07 at 10:49 AM -
Yeah, they were calling him a “lame duck” almost before those results were announced.
#12 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 09/07 at 10:34 PM -
how about going to a system where the citizens dont vote for president, only the senate and House do?
Or
How about we just DRAFT a president from the general public..?
Right now my Money is on Fred.
and i sincerely hope that Fred picks Gingrich as his Veep, pulls in Duncan Hunter as sec of defense.. or some such.
#13 Posted by Drumwaster on 09/07 at 11:41 PM -
how about going to a system where the citizens dont vote for president, only the senate and House do?
No fucking way. It’s a hell of a lot easier to buy 270 votes than it is to sway 50 million. You think Congress is corrupt now? Just wait until you try this.
How about we just DRAFT a president from the general public..?
I’m of the opinion that anyone who actually WANTS the job should be Constitutionally excluded from the office.
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#1 Posted by Capmeister
on 09/06 at 03:53 PM -
I like Fred Thompson, tentatively so. We’ll see how he handles the next eleventy-billion months of debates and fundraisers.