Do you know the candidates?

[noonebil]

Do you know how ALL candidates stand on issues important to you? In this era of instant information, you can find out easily about candidates for all federal, state, & local positions. Type their name in a search engine & 99% will have a website with their platform. If your issue is not addressed, most websites will have an email address where you can ask.

There is no excuse for not knowing.

[flhuntress]

i know who bush is....the only one that counts. ;D

[Shorthair]

Unfortunately I know all of them. There isn't much difference between any of them either. And that goes for GW also.

[hunt4fun1]

Yep....I know all the platforms.
You're right....every voter should know where every politician stands in order to make a good voting decision.

[flhuntress]

i heard that kerry is a hunter....what else can y'all tell me about him.....i haven't paid attention but now it's time i start.

[Shorthair]

Kerry is a cad and a gigilo. He runs around crowing about his great service to America in Vietnam but he fails to mention that threw away someones medals, he claimed they were his, in protest of the war when he came home and saw that anti-Vietnam war was go for politics in Mass.
He is a socialist that thinks class envy is good for America. He is a budget buster that will make GW Bush's deficits look like my Visa bill. He is pro-gay marriage and for partial birth abortion. He is a 18 year senator that says he will get the special interest out of Washington(remember when someone bad mouths special interest that we as members of the NRA are part of a special interest group) boowahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!! get rid of special interst in D.C. boowahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's gonna get rid of......boowahahahahahahaha!!!
Oh crap, I need to stop before I hurt myself laughing!

[Shorthair]

Here is some more about John Kerry for y'all to digest

THE REAL KERRY

By HOWIE CARR

February 5, 2004 -- BOSTON

ONE of the surest ways to get the phones ringing on any Massachusetts talk-
radio show is to ask people to call in and tell their John Kerry stories.
The phone lines are soon filled, and most of the stories have a common
theme:
our junior senator pulling rank on one of his constituents, breaking in
line, demanding to pay less (or nothing) or ducking out before the bill arrives.
The tales often have one other common thread. Most end with Sen. Kerry inquiring
of the lesser mortal: "Do you know who I am?"

And now he's running for president as a populist. His first wife came from a
Philadelphia Main Line family worth $300 million. His second wife is a
pickle-and-ketchup heiress.

Kerry lives in a mansion on Beacon Hill on which he has borrowed $6 million to
finance his campaign. A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife
from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of
Boston at his behest.

The Kerrys ski at a spa the widow Heinz owns in Aspen, and they summer on
Nantucket in a sprawling seaside "cottage" on Hurlbert Avenue, which is
so well-appointed that at a recent fund-raiser, they imported porta-toilets onto
the front lawn so the donors wouldn't use the inside bathrooms. (They
later claimed the decision was made on septic, not social, considerations).

It's a wonderful life these days for John Kerry. He sails Nantucket Sound in
"the Scaramouche," a 42-foot Hinckley powerboat. Martha Stewart has
a similar boat; the no-frills model reportedly starts at $695,000. Sen. Kerry
bought it new, for cash.

Every Tuesday night, the local politicians here that Kerry elbowed out of his
way on his march to the top watch, fascinated, as he claims victory in more
primaries and denounces the special interests, the "millionaires" and "the
overprivileged."

"His initials are JFK," longtime state Senate President William M. Bulger used
to muse on St. Patrick's Day, "Just for Kerry. He's only Irish
every sixth year." And now it turns out that he's not Irish at all.

But in the parochial world of Bay State politics, he was never really seen as
Irish, even when he was claiming to be (although now, of course, he says that
any references to his alleged Hibernian heritage were mistakenly put into the
Congressional Record by an aide who apparently didn't know that on his paternal
side he is, in fact, part-Jewish).

Kerry is, in fact, a Brahmin - his mother was a Forbes, from one of
Massachusetts' oldest WASP families. The ancestor who wed Ralph Waldo Emerson's
daughter was marrying down. At the risk of engaging in ethnic stereotyping,
Yankees have a reputation for, shall we say, frugality. And Kerry tosses around
quarters like they were manhole covers. In 1993, for instance, living on a
senator's salary of about $100,000, he managed to give a total of $135 to
charity.

Yet that same year, he was somehow able to scrape together $8,600 for a
brand-new, imported Italian motorcycle, a Ducati Paso 907 IE. He kept it for
years, until he decided to run for president, at which time he traded it in for
a Harley-Davidson like the one he rode onto "The Tonight Show" set a
couple of months ago as Jay Leno applauded his fellow Bay Stater.

Of course, in 1993 he was between his first and second heiresses - a time he now
calls "the wandering years," although an equally apt description might
be "the freeloading years."
For some of the time, he was, for all practical purposes, homeless. His friends
allowed him into a real-estate deal in which he flipped a condo for quick
resale, netting a $21,000 profit on a cash investment of exactly nothing. For
months he rode around in a new car supplied by a shady local Buick dealer. When
the dealer's ties to a congressman who was later indicted for racketeering were
exposed, Kerry quickly explained that the non-payment was a mere oversight, and
wrote out a check

In the Senate, his record of his constituent services has been lackluster, and
most of his colleagues, despite their public support, are hard-pressed to list
an accomplishment. Just last fall, a Boston TV reporter ambushed three
congressmen with the question, name something John Kerry has accomplished in
Congress. After a few nervous giggles, two could think of nothing, and a third
mentioned a baseball field, and then misidentified Kerry as "Sen. Kennedy."

Many of his constituents see him in person only when he is cutting them in
line - at an airport, a clam shack or the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
One talk-show caller a few weeks back recalled standing behind a police
barricade in 2002 as the Rolling Stones played the Orpheum Theater, a short
limousine ride from Kerry's Louisburg Square mansion.
The caller, Jay, said he began heckling Kerry and his wife as they attempted to
enter the theater. Finally, he said, the senator turned to him and asked him the
eternal question.

"Do you know who I am?"
"Yeah," said Jay. "You're a gold-digger."
John Kerry. First he looks at the purse.

Howie Carr, a Boston Herald columnist and syndicated talk-radio host, has been
covering John Kerry for 25 years.

[RedOak]

I hope Michael Badnarik from Texas gets the nod at the convention. He seems to have the strongest stand on 2nd ammendment issues of all the canidates.

Short none of that suprises me about Kerry. I already know that he has taken more special interest money than anybody else in the race. I have long ago come to the concuclusion that he thinks his turds are gold plated.