I will not vote for a repubblican i had enough BS for 8 years . It`s time to change scenery

do you really want a senile old man in bed with big corporations running this country. haven´t we had enough already? i understand your disillusionment but i would never vote for him, why not vote green?

Are you out of your mind? You could put a tin can with a "D" on it in front of me right now and I'd vote for the darn thing! Read between the lines and you'll find the current Republicans in power are anti middle class and have little, if anything, to offer you.

Hahaha!!! The options this time aroud really bite. At least you can be relatively assured what your getting with him. The other two are too volatile. The people I liked got voted off the island a long time ago. :-)

The way to go is to not enable. Don't vote.

Vote--for the best candidate CD. If you have always voted Dem--why change now?! In my opinion, in one way or the other they are both good nominees. Which speaks louder to you and what this country needs right now--sometimes the best vote is an unselfish vote.

It's funny to hear some of the answers to this question. People blame the Republicans for all the bad. Granted, the war has been a long and hard battle and a very expensive one. However, look at this little fact folks, when did gas really start going up? When did the economy really start going down? when did the housing crisis start? The answer is 2006. What happened in 2006... a Democratic Congress was elected. yes, folks, I know you love to blame Bush for everything, but it's your Democratic Congress that is mostly at fault. By the way... the Nancy Pelosi and company have an approval rating of 9%. Lowest in history! Now to answer the original question. Independent... voting for McCain! I can't vote for Barak Husain Obama aka Carter the Second.

You should always vote for who you think can do the job the best. As for being liberal and considering Mc Cain, i would say go research Mc Cain a little further. He is not a Liberal, he is not even moderate, he has voted with Bush over 90% if the time. If yo think the world is better off with bush, then voting for Mc Cain is a vote to continue the bush administration..

Voting for McCain would drive this country to further ruin. I will say nothing more.

I'm in the boat with you, Chanda. There are just no viable options. I will probably make up my mind when I pull the curtain to vote. I also don't have the option of not voting -- if I don't vote, I can't complain, and I know I'm GONNA complain!!

I would rather you vote McCain than a dyed in the wool socialist. I understand the predicament you're in. The Dems have not offered up a viable candidate to the Republicans in the last 3 elections.

grrrr... flag please

It is not a standard, but it certainly helps when aid is needed in times of war. True? Economy is growing? I guess you do not know anyone whose house is in foreclosure because one or more of the incomes was lost due to this ‘economic growth’. In the interest of saving precious AB comment space I will post links. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_08/b4072000357457.htm?chan=search http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/03/09/by-all-indications-telltale-signs-of-a-recession/ But I don’t need to read often biased publications to feel the decline. I have been looking for a job worthy of me raising 2 kids on since March. I am an educated and experienced candidate in my field, yet I am reduced to the service industry, which by the way, is NOT MAKING ANY MONEY because no one has extra money to spend eating out and frequenting bars: No customers = no tips. So I take my lame ass $3.65/hr and my daily tip amount of $40 and put it ALL in my gas tank so I can get back and forth to this job that does not pay my rising bills. - Ummm, No Child Left Behind has caused serious problems in MY states education system. IT sounded good on paper... Thanks to NCLB, my children are now subjected to statewide assessment testing. My child can go the entirety of 3rd grad and receive straight A's in reading, but fail ONE test (the FCAT) and he has to repeat 3rd grade. WTF? And if you think a standardized test has the ability to measure a child’s education or intelligence, you are sorely mistaken. Teachers have been found to bribe children to do better on these tests. Administrators have been found to ‘doctor’ test results in order to have better over all scores. The amount of time preparing for just this ONE test is roughly 3 months (on average). There is a LOT of pressure put on the students to do well on this test. This is time and effort taken away from teaching my children that learning is fun. This is time taken away from my children’s interest in the Arts and sports, which in my opinion is paramount. Also, our schools get graded. Let’s say that the district we live in requires my son to go to school Alpha. School Beta is 5 miles in the opposite direction and buses are not provided because we do not live in that school’s district. (state/city issues, but bear with me) School Alpha gets less funding because it was graded a ‘D’ school in the previous school year. This year my son’s school will not be able to afford new text books, the already underpaid Alpha teachers will get no raises, and the like. My son’s education will suffer because of these things. Also, this year (because of the lack of funds) my son’s school will receive an ‘F’ as it’s grade and will subsequently be closed. Now I have to take an extra 20 minutes out of my already 10+ hour work day (extra hours are to pay for healthcare) to drive my son to a school where he has a half-way decent chance to get a moderate education. AND he will still have to take the friggin’ FCAT that is the basis of these school grades. - The cost of health care IS the problem. I can work an extra 10 hours a week to pay for the $400+ it will cost to add my family to my insurance plan. But really, is that in the best interest of me taking the responsibility of raising 2 productive members of society? They already spend more time in Day Care than I am comfortable with. I do not want to have to make the choice between having someone else raise my children and paying $200 for MANDATORY checkups & physicals that I do not agree with in the first place (whole 'nother story). And god forbid if something truly tragic would happen and I end up in the hospital or become unable to work, indefinitely… THEN who becomes my neighbor’s tax burden?

Since President Bush was elected, my family went from dirt poor to, well, not dirt poor. We, as a country, had 52 consecutive months of positive economic growth, which is more than one full term. It wasn't until 2007, when the Democrats got power of the House and Senate that the economy, amoung other things, started to take a dump. December 2006 gas was $1.88. Today it's $4.12 or so. Every time I hear that voting for Senator McCain would be like voting for a 3rd Bush term, it makes me want to vote for his that much more. McCain promises to not raise taxes, and he's never voted for a tax increase in his who Senate life. Obama promises to pass the highest tax increase in the history of this great country. Sounds like a simple choice to me.

No way, I want no more Republican presidents in my lifetime.

While it is too easy to either jump on obama's bandwagon like EVERYONE else, there is reason to look for the good in bush's tenure, such as the success of Operation: Iraqi Freedom, not to mention the capture and death of Saddam Hussein. Therefore, Mccain being compared with Bush could be a good thing, and even is to me, when I consider how blind everyone is to bush's strong points. My election POV is as such. Mccain has proved himself, and like grandpa, he does not run around trying to prove himself, but lets things happen, being confident where he stands. Obama runs around, running his mouth, circling the globe on his preliminary election victory premise, trying to overcompensate his lack of experience with presence of vapid rhetoric. What is more, his rhetoric and record is a paradox, for they don't at all dovetail. Barack's Paradox, as I call it. LOL. Mccain is what we need with the lumbering bear of Russia on the rise, for obama is not the go to guy for that kind of thing. Mccain is a veteran, and he is dang good at military strategy.