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Originally Posted by Drjohnrock
Catsick would be a total nightmare as president.
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All your criticisms are true. Forgot to mention he has strong ties to ALEC. But:
--Expanded Medicare.
--Raised taxes on fracking industry to pay for oversight, etc (rather than pass the costs onto tax-payers)
--His last budget proposal was mostly moderate, and at points even liberal. Redistributing education funds to underperforming schools? That took balls.
suchfriends is right. We're due for a Republican president. All I'm saying is:
1.) Kasich is moderate enough to win it all (although perhaps too moderate to win the GOP nomination!)
2.) As a Republican president, I feel he'd be open to ideas outside the far-right box. I don't think his first act as President will be dismantling Obamacare, or kicking gays out of the military, or privatizing social security.
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
i honestly could care less who the president is, same shit different toilet..
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I don't like Hilary. At all. But what I like even less is the "They're all the same" mentality. Obama isn't the progressive we wanted him to be, but to suggest the past six and a half years would have been the same if McCain had won is absurd.
And to suggest a Hillary presidency and, say, a Jeb Bush presidency would look the same is equally absurd. Yes, President Hillary will no doubt do many pro-corporate, hawkish, anti-progressive things, but c'mon. Just because she isn't as leftist as she pretends to be doesn't mean she's a right-winger, y'know?
You're concentrating on the overlap, and there's quite a bit. But the differences are significant enough that "They're all the same" doesn't ring true.