Here is your chance to convince me

[vernard]

Do your absolute best to convince me that your candidate should be President. Please specifically list how your candidate will be different than the other cnadidates that are running and why that decision is the correct one.

Do not, I repeat do NOT, comment on other folks entries. I just want to see what You think in your own head.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If I could wave a magic wand and have anyone be president, it would probably be amanda42. Libertarian bordering on anarchist, and very very smart and tolerant. She would do everything she could to cut government down to the bare minimum, and make it possible for the private sector to do what the current semi-socialism does, only much more efficiently. But she's only 31.

Of folks who are actually eligible: Dave Ross - former talk show host who has had his finger on American and world politics for over two decades. (Currently running for Congress, though not my district.) Jesse Ventura - (former?) governor of Minnesota, and probably along with the next guy the most honest politician I know. Jimmy Carter. Now, there's a statesman. Very underrated, and with his post-Presidential experience, he would be very well suited to be back in the hot seat. But Rosalyn won't let him, and he doesn't want the job. More's the pity. Howard Dean: Another guy not afraid to stick his neck out. The best of the candidates that started the race. Alas, Kerry's bankroll snuffed him.

George W. Bush is a traitor to the Constitution. He has destroyed freedom of long-distance travel in this country. He has destroyed the right to privacy, the right to representation in criminal matters, the right to open and speedy trials, and lied to us in order to send our young men and women to die where they had no business being. (Not that Saddam Hussein is any better - he's not... but there were much better ways of dealing with him. His father knew that.) Osama bin Laden's men destroyed the Twin Towers and killed thousands. George W. Bush's men have been responsible for over a thousand more of our trained soldiers - folks we put a considerable investment in - and the destruction of our freedom.

I want that back. That's why I'm supporting John Kerry. Not because I like the guy atall.... but because he's the best chance we've got to oust the current tyrant without a shooting war.

When I was a kid, I pled allegiance to a republic - a nation with liberty and justice for all. If George W. Bush gets re-elected, that nation will cease to exist. I have no allegiance to an Empire, a nation where the head of state leads by force and fiat, and the Senate is a sham and has no control over the Emperor. I may stay and work to restore the Republic; I may choose to go elsewhere, and participate in politics where freedom comes first. But I Will Not Tolerate Empire.

Delenda est Carthago