"This will not end well."

-Justin

 

Hey, I said that first.

 

libertarian ftw

 

CHEYENNE, WY-After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. "Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist," Jacobs said. "Also, my house was burning down." Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service.

Sorry, I could not help it.

 

Why isn't moderate a choice?

Or right with left tendencies?

Or left with right tendencies?

This thread sucks.

just like liberals

 

see added instructions above...

 

Agreed...where can I put this guy?

Not exactly a republican as we know them.

 

turn over your answer sheet, there will be 3-4 lines for comments/very short answer running vertically... put him there...

 

I'm surprised how this poll is trending (currently in the republican's favor with a 14% lead over the dems)... I always thought Saab drivers were ultra-liberal tree hugging hippie types. I'd be really interested in seeing how the c900 crowd is politically biased, thats really the era of Saab I relate to ultra hippie liberalism.

On another note, i see a fair amount of 9-5's with Bush2004 stickers on the them, never see that on a 9-3/900.

 

Only republicans can afford to buy new Saabs. The democrats keep giving their money to their neighbors so the neighbor kid can get braces.

 

we def need more participants... in case people didn't notice, 'public' will not be able to see who voted who...

 

Are you kidding Saabs to most people translate to Snaabs which means we would rather see a Humvee drive over a prious than drive one. I'm also a demee

 

vote!~

 

Guess which one I checked.

More than one person tried to get me going about a particular vehicle with lots of bumper stickers at SOC.

 

Did you punch the window of that vehicle?

 

I know this election predates most of you, hell even I couldn't vote in it, but I once read that in 1972 92% of all SAAB owners voted for George McGovern as opposed to Richard Nixon. Of course Nixon won in a landslide and we know where that ended up. Now, "all SAAB owners" was not much of a voting bloc in terms of shear numbers, but it does indicate strong anit-war, left leaning, democratic views held by owners of this marque at the time.

 

I put Other only because even the Dems can be dumb and I prefer to be independent. Although I'll be voting Dem for the the next election, hopefully this time they won't screw it up

 

Well last election, I voted for David Cobb, the candidate for the D.C. Statehood Green Party. Sadly, he did not win.

Personally, I might be inclined towards "anarchy without chaos," I think it would make things more interesting.

 

I vote the candidates and the issues, rather than toeing any party line. I think it's silly to vote Dem or Rep just because the opposing party has/had control and it didn't work out.

In the last election, I voted for a mix of people, both Rep and Dem with one Independent. People who blindly vote for a party without understanding the candidates or the issues, in my mind, are more dangerous than those who don't vote at all.

 

I'm pretty much the same way.

Of course, it didn't work out too well for me, Bush is still in office.

 

Republicans have a work ethic.

 

LOLLERSKATES!!

Come on man! Your flame bait is usually more sutble that that. You must be slipping.

Get your shit together!

 

It would be great if a strong and moderate 3rd party could be developed that cared about the people of the US and real issues that real people deal-with. There isn't too much difference between either party IMO; there are a few exceptions, but generally I just can't get over the gnawing feeling that members of both parties are more concerned with staying in Washington than they are about any particular issue, or representing the people...which is too bad. As near as I can tell, the only thing that Democrats stand-for is being anti-Republican, and the only thing that Republicans stand-for is maintaining their power-base.

There are social issues that are crying-out for attention that neither party is willing to address because both parties come from the privileged class and it's in both parties interest to maintain things as they are while creating the illusion of getting something accomplished. For example education. Do you think leaders of either party and their friends send their kids to public schools? They don't, they go to prep-schools to the tune of $30-40K per year. That's where leaders from both parties are groomed.

Does anyone think it's strange that Bush Senior and Bill Clinton have been paling around together? (one thing about Clinton, regardless of whether you agree with his politics or not, is that he was an exception and was self-made)

It's interesting that the Democrats are the ones championing civil liberty issues right now, and are the only hope of examining the effects of things like the Patriot Act, while the Republicans are the only hope for maintaining private gun ownership rights.

Both parties benefit from maintaining a close balance of power because neither party would know what to do if they didn't have the other party to blame/villainize for their short fallings. Regardless, decisions that affect the United States aren't made in Washington, they're made over a round of gulf and $500 lunches at private clubs by old pals that were on the rowing team together back in prep school.

 

Say you have six eggs. I'm going to start a poll on whether it's better to:

A: Claim to have six eggs,
B: Insist that you have a half dozen eggs, or
C: Pretend that you really have 3+3 eggs.

 

D: make an omlet

 

Hours worked != Quality of work.

I can get my projects done in 30-35 hours each week, and my boss thinks my stuff is great.

 

I have to facilitate the business. So I do whatever it takes. :mrgreen:

Even if that means (GASP1!!!) working more than 8 hours a day.

We have a person here in sales and they just hate Bush. He blows in at 10:30, takes a two hour lunch, and is out of here by 4:00.

I'll make triple what that sorry excuse for a man makes, and he has three kids.

I can come up with examples all day if need be.

 

what do y'all do?

 

I make Lucci and don't take shit from anyone. I don't have to.

I work right under the CEO and my title is "Director of Financial Services" but I'm really our leasing director. The company is an IT reseller and we rock. My job is to get the customer to finance their assets, versus purchase.

It's actually a lot of fun. I make my own hours (see above posts) and can take as much vacation/personal time that I'd like. But me taking a full week off will never happen. Way too busy.

 

I examine each issue individually and then decide my opinion. Rather than just affiliating with one party or another. I then vote for whoever I feel has the most similiar opinions. Last election, I voted about 50/50...

 

I go in, turn around, and start leaning against things with my eyes closed. Same difference.

(yes that's a joke)

 

I go in, turn around, and start leaning against things with my eyes closed. Same difference.

(yes that's a joke)

Drew- What's sad is that ISN'T a joke for a lot of people. Going into the last election somone said to me "wait, you can vote for people from different parties" (different offices)...she had no idea that when you picked 3 town selectment...you COULD pick 2 republicans and 1 democrat and vice-versa.

 

Lendo,
Dude, stop. You're digging a repeating loop with your logic, as the statement "I know a lot of rich executive Democrats and a lot of lazy Republicans" is also true. Political affiliation is not really a good indicator of wealth, wealth potential, or work ethic. Even a lot of the studies that have been done are rather flawed.

 

+ Eleventy trillion.

I know a guy who works 70-80 hour weeks, travels at least a week out of every month to Asia, is often in the office by 6 a.m. to catch up on the European markets, put a million down on a house to cover half the mortgage, and directs a hedge fund worth several billion...

His taxes are more than double Lendo's salary....

He votes Democratic and supports liberal candidates....

:fail star:

 

Money ain't a thang...

The truly great SAABs just keep getting cheaper anyway.

This poll and the US party split doesn't work for me.

Socially I'm very liberal and fiscally very conservative. I believe the unilateral action taken by the US was a grave error. As a result, the last 7 years have been very frustrating for me. I was a proud Republican, but that was before the very very dissappointing nomination of Mr. Bush.

This election cycle I've got my eye out for a decent canidate from either party. Romeny seems interesting given his impeccable record and qualifications, but chafes me awfully bad in the culture wars department...

I'll likely vote for Hillary, for lack of a better option.

 

I'll likely vote for Hillary, for lack of a better option.

Failboat.

 

Hillary scares the shit out of me....the only way I'll vote for her is if she runs against a very nasty republican, otherwise I would probably abstain from that part of the ballot.