I’m With Fred
August 7th, 2007
I took down the “I’m With Fred” box from my site.
Explanation:
I’ll be with Fred when he decides to run…and by run…I mean show up for one of the debates. Might have been a good strategic decision earlier, but you’ve toyed with me enough Fred. When you decide to do this officially, then maybe I’ll say I’m interested, wait 4 months, and then put it back up.
Until then, there’s always Duncan!
Until then, which candidate has grabbed both your heart and mind?
After the last few debates, and the off camera stuff I’ve heard, I really like Romney…especially after his response with a talk show host when he was “off air”, check out this link for what I mean. Forceful with his beliefs, but forceful about not forcing his beliefs on others…it gets really good towards the end.
Your and my taxes are paying for Massachusets’ state health care…
PR-etal,
No heart-burn just an honest to goodness question. Off topic of course…I just want to fit in with some of the commenters here (and I said there was no h-burn, oops my bad)…
You ask SiR, “…which candidate has grabbed both your heart and mind?”
Parsing that question, of course, why do WE mention heart first or at all? Are our decisions based on logic or emotion (live long and prosper Spock and do boink Nurse Chapel)?
And what is a logical decision based on? Information? HA HA HA Can you say OVERLOAD, SPUN and AGENDIZED quickly three times? Are Calvin and Marshall rearing their ugly little heads again? Logic hurts our tiny unwashed brains, easier to make an emotional decision and call it logical instead? After all look at how much information we have to base it on…GROAN
And what is an emotional decision based on? Feeeelings, nothing more than feelings…ulp sorry.
With less (heart) feeling please,
GoingThere
ps…
Not the end all references on Calvin and Marshall but good places to start.
Calvin Mooers
Marshall McLuhan
I know existing, I know…but you can’t get 100% of what you want in a candidate. It’s a tough call.
GT, it’s not so cut and dry to equate ‘hearts and minds’ with emotion and logic. Sometimes, many times, someone may feel candidate A is best for the job, but that they don’t have a chance in the elections…for whatever reasons.
It is in those such times when one’s heart is supporting Candidate A, but their mind will have them focus on the best candidate who has a chance. Nader voters vote with their heart. As did Perot voters.
Don’t play retarded, emotion plays a big role when one goes to the voting booth. It’s the balance of both their hearts and minds that leads them to vote for who they deem the best person that has a chance.
My heart says to vote for “change”…my heart likes cliches.
The basis in non-fact of the beliefs and attitudes of the left and right nut-roots indicates that their feelings are delusionary/emotional in nature. SOooo typically the loudest are delusional, their rabid emotional investment high and connected to self worth (delusional with too much time on their hands), marginalized as idiots and therefore have no effect upon the process…and this seems logical to whom?
Not playing retarded just speaking to the masses…
GoingThere
Certainly at no offense to you, GT. But…to speak to the masses, mustn’t a person play retarded?
If we had to pick a pres today – we would be in deep shit.
How about we start a million man march with ALL AMERICANS, storm DC and throw ALL the bums out? Crap, both parties are such a blur – they all look purple to me. That color is not going to make us look very tough on the world stage, now is it? Hell, they are all such wussies – it’s turned a faint pink now!
They make six figures in Congress and also have paid staffs to run and operate five offices some of them. FOR WHAT? To come on the floor with only two things on the menu? “Will that be Democrat? Or Republican?” It’s pathetic. CSPAN is a redundant skipping record. They all get five minutes in the house- and they take turns saying the same alternate sound bite through all few hundred of them.
The Dems keep wasting our time passing NON BINDING resolutions and throwing what little change we have left in the piggy bank down the toilet. The Republicans are the biggest pussies when it comes to standing up to the administration. They raided the cash first, like parent’s who steal cash from their kid’s piggy bank.
It’s up to us guys, we don’t put public pressure on them. That’s why it is as bad as it is….
You tell’em Erin!
But most of us/them will not listen. That million citizen march on DC sounds attractive.
Only one item on the agenda,
CHANGE!!!
You will change or you are figuratively speaking, dead.
A million voices shouting !!!change!!!
War? Change
Education? Change
Immigration? Change
Abortion? Change
Taxes? Change
Elections? Change
Health Care? Change
That is all they need to know. Nothing “they” currently accomplish, hahahahaha, or plan to accomplish (BIGGER HAHAHAHA’s here) passes the smell test, NOTHING!!!
Mao Mao Tse-Tung revolution by the young!!! (OLD TOO) Not for his politics but a catchy phrase. A phrase I heard during the 60’s and 70’s while working for the pharmaceutical companies conducting field research.
GoingThere