Quote:I honestly don't think I can bring myself to vote republican.  You're a bigger man than me...  Remember that website in that one thread where you could determine which candidates you most agree with.  

 

My top 3 were Bernie, Hillary and Rand Paul...  Of course you know I'd take Bernie over the other 2...  But I think the closest I can say about my open-mindedness (or lack thereof) is that I'd have to think long and hard before voting for Hillary if Rand was the Republican Nominee...

 

One of these day's I'll sure we'll have a discussion about why we vote the way we do.  I'm sure I'll eventually explain my position and why I no longer trust Republicans but it's not just irrational hatred for them.  

 

It's all in one's ideology, I guess.  One that develops while living life.  At one point, I was the hardest of hard-core fiscal conservatives...  But I learned alot and went through the 30 years realizing that fiscal conservatives never seem to getting around to fixing problems for the economic/social class I reside in.  But that's just been my point of view.  I know alot of us differ on these topics...  

 

Gotta put the kids to bed...

 

I was raised "as a democrat" in that my family has always voted for democrats no matter what.  It wasn't until my later teens and early 20's that I started paying attention to politics, and started to form my own opinion.  Over the years I've voted for candidates of both parties, the majority of them republicans.  I try to pay attention not only to what candidates say, but also their track record.

 

Of the three that you mentioned, I would vote for Rand Paul.  I could never bring myself to vote for either of the other two.  I just don't agree with much, if anything that Bernie Sanders has to say, and I think that Hillary Clinton is perhaps the most dishonest and corrupt politicians in the race with Donald Trump being a close second.

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