FishingBanter - View Single Post - OT- Election time!

**rb608** · November 7th, 2006, 08:28 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
I would however say that if you can't be bothered to figure out
a candidate's stance on the things you care about, you shouldn't
vote. Voting based on party letter is self-defeating.

It is convenient, though inexact, that figuring out a candidate's
stance can be as simple as looking at that letter. In choosing his
party affiliation, a candidate has already decided where he/she best
fits and with which party's positions he/she most agrees. In that the
political and social positions of the national parties are generally
more discernable than those of an individual candidate, a candidate's
choice of parties does, to a large measure, reveal his own ideals and
positions.

In my own opinion and at this particular time, anyone who proudly
asserts himself as a Republican can reasonably be judged on that party
association and, by extension, association with that party's actions
and attitudes. I don't care if he's my best friend and only running
for local dog catcher; I'll be damned if I'll vote for him, based on
that letter.

Joe F.