(I realize you've said you don't follow politics closely, and I'm not trying to badger you if you don't want to get into it, I'm just passing through.)
You said you tended to lean Democratic usually. I just wondered why you lean Democratic normally, was it sort of a family tradition or was it based on any particular polices...you seem to be a small business owner so I reckon you care a lot about fiscal issues... do you have any social issues you care about?
I guess my feeling is that Palin seems to be a pretty rugged, energetic leader, a "go getter" so to speak, which is admirable, but at the end of the day (for me, anyway), she's still aggressively anti-choice (apparently she feels rape and incest aren't necessarily sufficient justifications for abortion), she still supports teaching creationism in schools, she's against comprehensive sex ed, and her fiscal experience is in Alaska, which has pretty unique economics that don't seem to translate to the rest of the country.
She's a very conservative veep for a pretty conservative ticket, and I'm just having a hard time seeing a Democrat, even a nominal one, voting for that.
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Date: 2008-08-29 06:34 pm (UTC)You said you tended to lean Democratic usually. I just wondered why you lean Democratic normally, was it sort of a family tradition or was it based on any particular polices...you seem to be a small business owner so I reckon you care a lot about fiscal issues... do you have any social issues you care about?
I guess my feeling is that Palin seems to be a pretty rugged, energetic leader, a "go getter" so to speak, which is admirable, but at the end of the day (for me, anyway), she's still aggressively anti-choice (apparently she feels rape and incest aren't necessarily sufficient justifications for abortion), she still supports teaching creationism in schools, she's against comprehensive sex ed, and her fiscal experience is in Alaska, which has pretty unique economics that don't seem to translate to the rest of the country.
She's a very conservative veep for a pretty conservative ticket, and I'm just having a hard time seeing a Democrat, even a nominal one, voting for that.