In the voting booth, will you vote for another safe four years? Or will you vote for better economy, not caring who gets blown up. Bush is the best choice.
How's that for an impartial, unbiased polling question?
Senator Kerry...why? (Remember, this is if i COULD vote, i'm 16)
I'll comment on these one at a time:
1. He will keep the nation just as safe as Bush can
I'd say that's the big fat question mark that a lot of votes are hanging on. I'm really not sure how Kerry would handle national security. Clearly, Bush's foreign policy adventures have made world leaders think twice about terrorism and WMDs. Just look how nicely Khadaffi is playing right now. Will the world preceive that the giant has fallen asleep again if Kerry is elected?
2. Stabalize the economy
The economy will stabalize itself. Kerry or Bush will have nothing to do with it. I do think, once the economy is on solid footing, that Kerry will be more likely to balance the budget than Bush will. Republicans can't raise taxes without destroying their support (ahoy, Bush Senior!), but Democrats have more of a luxury in this regard.
3. Remedy that disaster we know as "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
We can't simply pull out right now. Whether or not getting into this mess was right, pulling out without an established order would be disasterous in so many ways. Too many to list here. We'll see what happens on June 30, whether the new government will "take." If Kerry wins, I don't envy the position he will be in, because we're going to need to keep peace and order, even with a government in place, for quite some time. I haven't seen any indication that Kerry has a coherent exit strategy for Iraq. I couldn't even tell you what a good exit strategy would look like. To say that Kerry is going to "remedy that disaster" is being outrageously optimistic.
4. Help put a stop to this conservative movement that's literaly beating the crap out of the first amendment
This movement is happening at the grass-roots, popular level. What do you propose Kerry do? Institute martial law? Send the national guard in to keep people from praying in school? You're young, so I don't fault you here, but there is tendency in the liberal establishment today to disdain the popular will. A perfect example is the Mass. supreme court, ordering the legislature to conform its laws to its own ideology, in total disregard of the will of the people who elected them. There are other countries in the world in which the government "puts a stop to" popular movements. I don't think you really want the US to emulate them.
5. Solidify the line between church and state that Bush has blurred and wants to erase
This is probably the one item that Kerry certainly would be able to accomplish. Kerry is not going to support faith-based initiatives or school vouchers.
6. Have a non-moron be my leader
Bush didn't get an MBA from Harvard, nor did he successfully run the second largest state in the Union for six years, by being a moron. This is childish
ad hominem.7. Put John Edwards higher up in the government
8. To never hear "President Bush" ever again
I don't know what place Edwards would have, if any, in the Kerry Administration, but electing Kerry would result in Bush being out of office, yes.
Sounds to me like you're not all that interested in electing Kerry, but rather in un-electing Bush.
