When people express displeasure with the overall quality of candidates, is this just code for "I don't the person who is the presumed democratic nominee?" On the political spectrum there's something for everyone so I guess I just don't get that claim.
Who is the candidate for people who don't want government to interfere with their body, dictate morality, take away guns, or take large amounts of taxes to redistribute wealth, and who hasn't shown incompetence/willful neglect of national security?
Hillary, O'Malley and Marco. I think you would have a hard time in any election finding someone who would match that exact criteria. But let's take them one by one
-The only real candidate that could potentially be a real threat to women's reproductive rights is Ted Cruz but as much as he would huff and puff about stuff like that it would be very difficult to make any movement there. I could see Cruz and Grimace make an executive order to defund planned parenthood though and the std and teen pregnancy rate would immediately skyrocket.
-Dictate morality is a tough one because you can claim that any president would to that, they really don't have a choice. I am not going to pretend where your moral line is and what issues you find important in this realm, I can tell you that Cruz is the only candidate that has the least regard for the separation of church and state.
-No one wants to take away anyone's guns, no one even talks about it. Hillary has the most liberal stance on guns but who are we kidding, the gun lobby is the most powerful in the country. The rights of gun owners has expanded in this country not contracted. Any gun owner worried about anything should probably stop listening to Wayne Lapierre podcasts or whatever.
-I again don't know of a presidential candidate who wouldn't spend some tax dollars, obviously Bernie is the one that is going to spend the most but he is also the only one who has been honest about who he plans to tax. Any candidate that says they won't raise taxes isn't being realistic or is simply lying.
-I don't know if any of the candidates has shown incompetence/willful neglect of national security. There has been only one in the position to do so, Donald seems off the reservation a bit when it comes to national security that's problematic. If you think the email thing was a serious risk to national security then I certainly can't talk you out of that but the government experts don't seem to share that same opinion.
I guess ultimately I have to ask, has there been a president you have liked and if not what has been your issue with the last four our five of them. You seem like a moderate and we've had plenty of moderate presidents. My issue is that I'm not a moderate and I have only had moderate presidents in my lifetime. I guess Ronald was a conservative but that was like 35 years ago so who cares? So I finally have a mainstream liberal candidate so I'm happy. Conservatives are always happy until the nomination is handed out. Mrs. Gooch is there any candidate ever that can make you happy?
