Don't do it NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, maybe its just the fever talking, 20 days till my 26th wedding aniversary, maybe I will be up for parole?

Few weeks ago looking at the mens dress shoes size 13 , daughter asked me if dad needed new dress shoes, She said, "Mom you know better than to buy dad shoes he is so particular", she doesn't know dad is a size 11, lol.

I am going democrat who ever that is.

Fred Thompson is an actor from Law and Order who was running for President but he dropped out. He was republican.

Wow, I just checked the link...weird science.

Maybe Fred will return? He didn't look well in the debates. I'm a republican, does that mean I should drop out? There is a debate tonight, but I don't know if it's democratics or the republics!

me too, Krodgers, but I think THompson is done.

Yeah, i just checked the link too. O.O

That would be Obama or Hitlery.

Oops, I mean Hillary.



Did Rudy drop out today? I heard he was gonna. And Edwards dropped out today, too, yes?



K-Rod, don't drop out, even tho we don't have many conservatives left. I had my hopes pinned on Fred, who in my very humble opinion was the only real conservative in the field, unless I'm missing someone.

I think the debate tonight is the republicans.


spook

yep yep. Rudy is gone, and Edwards is due to drop out today or tomorrow.

Which leaves Romney and McCain for the republicans. [and huckabee but hes pretty far behind]
and
Obama and Clinton for the democrats.

And it leaves Sam W. as the DA on L&O, and Fred out of work.

Hey Fred could take a pay cut and be the ADA on LOCI.


spook

I was definitely ready to vote for Fred Thompson, and i got a few of my friends and my mom on it as well.

He could've had 6 votes from California!

Well, #2 Son has been clean for 14 days now! And he has a full time job at the golf course (he's been working weekends there for the last year--the boy LOVES golf!). WHOO HOO! Time to celebrate! Champagne for everyone! ::Pops open a bottle of champagne:: Uh, WAIT A MINUTE! What am I thinking?! ::Puts cork back in champagne bottle, checking to see if anyone was watching, and opens sparkling apple cider:: What I meant was, SPARKLING CIDER ALL AROUND!

The only republican I would vote for would be Ron Paul, but he has a snowballs chance in ......

Onward and upward ciaddict! I hope working somewhere he enjoys helps.
I know it's not fizzy but can I have mulled cider instead?

Personally, the American electoral system makes very little sense to me. You guys have to have the most complex and longest system in the world. The last federal election here I just stopped by the local polling station after school and voted. It took all of five minutes. So instead of drawn out campaigning, we Canadians just have to struggle with voter apathy (though that wasn't true last election considering the sponsorship scandal)
We're probably going to have a provinicial election here pretty soon, and I'm really thinking of voting the opposition...
*still mad about a government that approves a new digital library for the university and expansion plans, but does nothing about crumbling buildings or not enough residence spaces in the most expensive city to live in Canada*

ciaddict, I'm happy about your son. That's great news.

Amen. This 2008 PRESIDENTIAL RACE seemed to start about 10 minutes after the 2004 INAUGURAL SWEARING IN. Candidates in Canada are not allowed to put out signs for an election until just before the voting so campaigns don't seem to last very long. I don't understand your constitutional amendment on TERM LIMITS OF PRESIDENTS (2 TERMS). It tends to make a 2 TERM PRESIDENT (like CLINTON who seemed to be doing very well) a lame duck PESIDENT after only 1 TERM. Why can't they run longer? Plus these years long campaigns (like HILLARY CLINTON) must cost an incredible amount of money!!!

Congrats, Ciaddict!

Congrats ciaddict! That's wonderful. ::lifts glass of cider for a toast::

love the gipper!

ciaddist, I'm so happy for you and your son! I've been there, very hard times, so the sparkling apple cider sounds great! Kathy

Each day is one day more.

Hillary. Please let it me Hillary. Obama scares me . . . . .


Congrats ciaddict! I continue to send prayers your way! ::holds glass out for drink::




To answer your question about terms limits, the simple answer is Roosevelt. FDR was elected to office during the Great Depression, and was elected to 4 terms of office. Has he lived, FDR would have been in the White House for 16 years. While FDR's popularity is unmatched, particularly in today's presidential field, several felt that 16 years was too long for one man to be in charge of the country. Shortly after FDR's death, a Constitutional Amendment was passed and ratified that that limited the term of office for President to two terms. Which is the standard set by George Washington. The lame duck of a president second term usually starts the last year in office (Bush's seems longer cause he's lost so much popularity).

Now I have to agree that the idea of setting a time on when a person starts a campaign is appealing to me. Cause the money involved is enormous. However, since I work in radio, advertising is what pays my paycheck, and I kinda like getting paid, sooooo I'm kinda of torn between the whole spending money thing.

to each his own. . . . (as long as it's not a Republican or Obama)

hey does anybody know whether vincent is republican or democratic, or what religion he is? i was just curious.

Not a clue. BTW, love your preds sign in your sig! My hubby is a huge pred fan!

LOL

I believe, but don't quote me because it has been a while...that is the sign (sign language-wise) for deer?

I like to think he is making Mickey Mouse ears.

I don't think that Huckabee is out of it yet. I think tha the is going to come back with a vengance in the midwestern states. I have trouble seeing Romney and McCain winning Tennesee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Indiana (if they haven't voted there yet).

Romney is conservative. [Being Mormon he has religion on his team, though some people have a beef for Mormons.]
and
McCain is a military man.

The midwest would be their heaven.

In the true West:

Romney will get Utah and Idaho, probably Arizona.

McCain will bring home most of California without a second thought.

California is very anti conservative. McCain is pretty damn liberal for a republican.

Good points, but Huckabee is a Southern Baptist minister. Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennesee, and Kentucky have a very strong Southern Baptist presense.

Huckabee won Iowa, and the states that I previously mentioned tend to vote with Iowa.

I think that Huckabee has a fighting in these states (which is why they are known as the swing states b/c of their ability to swing an electon. Especially Missouri, whose electoral votes have gone to the winner of the election every year since it entered the union except 1904).

If Huckabee weren't Southern Baptist and a conservative, the midwest would be anyones game (it still is). But because there are so many people in the midwest who would vot for huckabee based on this fact alone, I think that he still has a chance. However, midwesterners typically have not liked McCain. There are also a lot of people who are skittish about voting for a Mormon [sillyif you ask me, at least making that the ONLY reason] [ (I would vote for him, but I need to research is platform more

Some people are prolly still not sure about Romney's particular religion, cuz it seems like it's not widely understood.

McCain is a RINO (republican in name only :-), i.e. yep, he IS pretty liberal for a republican.


spook

And at least ONE in Indiana.



HAHAHAHA! How do you REALLY feel, Valley?



I'm hoping for one of those two options.



OMG. Vince is a WAY left liberal. So I assume he's a democrat. One of the times he collapsed on-set was supposedly right after Dubya beat Kerry in 2004. He was waaay depressed.

Yes, I'm sure some here were, too, but I was just talking about Vincent.


spook

Congrats, ciaddict! Good on you and your son!


spook

Yeah, i wish Fred wouldn't have left me. I wanted to vote for him.



I'm actually fine with Obama because of his statement about Ronald Reagan.
That saved him in my books.

Hilary needs to take a long walk off a short pier.

Fred was my first choice too, but now that he is out I am not sure who will get my vote....I do know who won't get my vote and that is Hillary....I can't stand her or her husband....I am also ok with Obama, but I didn't make up my mind yet....but by the looks of it, by the time the Primaries get to PA, there will be only a few to choose from...

AH..that politics..gross..only to say PEASE AND LOVE FOR EVERYBODY,EVERYWHERE!!

Yeah, everyone i wanted dropped out. If Huckabee stays in til Feb 5th, then ill just vote Huckabee for California. I think Fred will still be on the ballot... which means technically i could still vote for him.

Clinton wasn't a bad president, so wouldn't be bad to have him in the whitehouse again, Sorry I am a die hard Democrat. Who ever wins the nomination gets my vote, Bush and his republician ways are done, Hillary or Obama is fine with me. Or I would have voted for Ron Paul. Hey wish they would let Arnold run for pres, Sorry McCain is too old, afraid he can't last the 4 yrs mentally. Sad we make people 70 retire from the job force but we let them apply to run the country and make nationwide decisions. Is there an age limit on the presidency?

there is no age limit on the presidency.

I dont' affiliate with any political party (and fortunately for me, my state has an open primary. Actually all of our elections are open). I try to vote for who I agree witht he most. Whenever I encounter offices on the ballot that I don't know who to vote for, I try to even up the ballot and vote for people in the party that I have voted the least for.

When I voted for president in 2004, my ballot was largely democratic (there were a lot of local offices up for election). So when I got to the elections that I wasn't certain of who to vote for, or for who I was conflicted, I voted republican.

When we voted in 2006 there were a lot of offices that were up for election. I actually was skewed toward the republican party this time, so I made up the difference by voting Democrat.

Maybe not an entirely sound practice, but oh well.

I don't quite know how I will vote for the presidency. I will more than likely vote Republican for the primary, but I don't know how I will vote in the general election for the president. I will probably vote in the opposite party of who I think will win the presidency when I vote for congress. I believe in balance in the government.

The only restrictions I can remember from 8th grade History, is that you have to be born in the US...and at least 35 years of age....

I WAS ok with Obama until I heard about the photo below, which was pulled from Time magazine and abc video. I'm kinda of silly for patriotism, and a flag-waver, and the photo upset me. It is surely not a big thing to a lot of people, but it is for me. Snopes says the photo is not photo-shopped and they have the abc video on their site as well.




spook - silly patriot

I'm a silly patriot, too Spook! I had heard about this, but hadn't seen it. It bothers me, too.

ALL the candidates scare me in one way or another. I really honestly feel like there is no one running who could really do the job justice right now.