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Have you ever regretted your vote for a US president?

Have you ever regretted your vote for a US president?

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StillBallin75 said:
I was 10 yrs old in 2000, just curious what was it about Gore back then that turned people off.
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His personality. He came off as a snooty policy wonk. Also, his wife was on that stupid committee for parents who made a big deal about swear words in lyrics, which really annoyed me. Add in that I was a new Foxie and Democrats were trying to ban smoking everywhere, and there you have it. I was 25. Then I grew up some and woke up.
 
X Factor said:
Attaching poll. If your answer is yes, who and why?
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no only because the last election was my 1st time voting voted for clinton would do it again over that son of a bitch trump
 
iliveonramen said:
He probably would of responded by a war in Afghanistan...which is what Bush did that was right. The Bush administration SOLD the war to the American public. It was like a year long blitz of people on TV, leaked information about aluminum tubes, cherry picked intel...etc etc.

I don't see Gore going that route. The Bush administration knew from the get go they wanted to get rid of Saddam and 9/11 gave them an opportunity.
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It's possible. I definitely don't see Iraq as a priority for Gore like it was for Bush.
 
Helix said:
His personality. He came off as a snooty policy wonk. Also, his wife was on that stupid committee for parents who made a big deal about swear words in lyrics, which really annoyed me. Add in that I was a new Foxie and Democrats were trying to ban smoking everywhere, and there you have it. I was 25. Then I grew up some and woke up.
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I wonder what Tipper Gore thinks of today's music...lol
 
Iowa farmers are certainly regretting their vote for this disaster in chief, as their worthless and completely impotent Senators ernst and grassley are bankrupting their own people, my people.
 
MrWonka said:
Keep coming. Just a little bit further left, and you'll be a lot happier with yourself.
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I won't vote Democrat, I don't support the OneParty Oligarchy.
 
Helix said:
It's possible. I definitely don't see Iraq as a priority for Gore like it was for Bush.
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I don't either. The ties to Iraq and 9/11 are just insanely non-existent. The pivot from hijackers from Saudi Arabia to invading Iraq was really a full court press on public opinion. It just doesn't seem like anyone other than the Bush administration with his specific goals in mind would of done. I don't see McCain doing it either.
 
Helix said:
I regret voting for Bush. I was under the mistaken impression that I was a Republican, and I found Al Gore to be repellent. Had Gore won, it's at least possible that we could have avoided a seventeen year long war and the disaster in Iraq, though he surely would have responded to 9/11 in some way. It's anyone's guess.
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What Helix said! Exactly. Same same, me. Bush was a horrible choice. I regret that I voted for him.
 
MrWonka said:
Keep coming. Just a little bit further left, and you'll be a lot happier with yourself.
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There is no Libertarian party on the LEFT, just throwaway votes that aid and abet repubs.

Libertarian rights on DP voted their conscience. I certainly respect that more than the complete election idiocy of purity progs and libs since the 2000 disaster.
 
Helix said:
I regret voting for Bush. I was under the mistaken impression that I was a Republican, and I found Al Gore to be repellent. Had Gore won, it's at least possible that we could have avoided a seventeen year long war and the disaster in Iraq, though he surely would have responded to 9/11 in some way. It's anyone's guess.
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Say Helix, IMO, you've been a war mongerer when it comes to Russia. What would you say you've done to prevent a war with Russia?
 
X Factor said:
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Bush in 2000.

I was naïve enough to think he would not take us to war, approve sticking broom sticks up the ass of prisoners and ruin our economy. Lesson learned.
 
calamity said:
Bush in 2000.

I was naïve enough to think he would not take us to war, approve sticking broom sticks up the ass of prisoners and ruin our economy. Lesson learned.
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I remember at the time the Bush campaign sold itself as the peaceful dove alternative to Clinton's warmongering lol. **** looks laughable in retrospect.
 
Only PresiDUNCEs get involved in every single gop primary from their twitter hole. Good job America, as the most uneducated states of all gave us this multi-headed Constitutional Crisis.
 
iliveonramen said:
I don't either. The ties to Iraq and 9/11 are just insanely non-existent. The pivot from hijackers from Saudi Arabia to invading Iraq was really a full court press on public opinion. It just doesn't seem like anyone other than the Bush administration with his specific goals in mind would of done. I don't see McCain doing it either.
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One only has to realize the same enormous pressure from the electorate to retaliate against the Twin-Tower bombers on 9/11 emanates from the electorate to retaliate against Russia, today, to realize the electorate can sometimes force politicians into doing really stupid things like wars. Do you want a war with Russia?
 
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cabse5 said:
One only has to realize the same enormous pressure from the electorate to retaliate against the Twin-Tower bombers on 9/11 emanates from the electorate to retaliate, today, to realize the electorate can sometimes force politicians into doing really stupid things.
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Retaliation back then could have taken very many different forms. The counter-insurgency nation-building strategy was not inevitable at the time although admittedly that point of view takes a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking.
 
cabse5 said:
One only has to realize the same enormous pressure from the electorate to retaliate against the Twin-Tower bombers on 9/11 emanates from the electorate to retaliate, today, against Russia to realize the electorate can sometimes force politicians into doing really stupid things.
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Afghanistan was where the bombers were from. That was the retaliation.

No one is talking about invading Russia. They are talking about sanctions and political pressure.
 
StillBallin75 said:
I remember at the time the Bush campaign sold itself as the peaceful dove alternative to Clinton's warmongering lol. **** looks laughable in retrospect.
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"Compassionate Conservative."

I guess compared to Trump, that would be true. Come to think of it.
 
iliveonramen said:
Afghanistan was where the bombers were from. That was the retaliation.

No one is talking about invading Russia. They are talking about sanctions and political pressure.
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Actually the bombers were primarily from Arab countries, mostly Saudi.
 
iliveonramen said:
Afghanistan was where the bombers were from. That was the retaliation.

No one is talking about invading Russia. They are talking about sanctions and political pressure.
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Clearly not war-like tactics you say?
 
calamity said:
"Compassionate Conservative."

I guess compared to Trump, that would be true. Come to think of it.
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Trump is more conservative, IMO, than Bush. Bush is a neocon not a conservative.
 
calamity said:
"Compassionate Conservative."

I guess compared to Trump, that would be true. Come to think of it.
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Those compassionate conservatives are now building Kushner private prisons for profit that the entire FREE WORLD sees as christian conservative concentration camps — CCCCs.
 
Helix said:
I regret voting for Bush. I was under the mistaken impression that I was a Republican, and I found Al Gore to be repellent. Had Gore won, it's at least possible that we could have avoided a seventeen year long war and the disaster in Iraq, though he surely would have responded to 9/11 in some way. It's anyone's guess.
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I gotta say that I’m actually glad that I’m, to this day, not so readily forgiving of what happened on 9/11.
 
Linc said:
Libertarian rights on DP voted their conscience. I certainly respect that more than the complete election idiocy of purity progs and libs since the 2000 disaster.
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Too bad you guys don't understand basic Game Theory. Not only would you realize that voting Democrat is the best way to bring about the rise of the Libertarian party, but maybe just maybe you'd realize how naive the Libertarian party is in general.

Do yourself a favor. Learn what a Nash Equilibrium is.
 
iliveonramen said:
Afghanistan was where the bombers were from. That was the retaliation.

No one is talking about invading Russia. They are talking about sanctions and political pressure.
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The electorate wanted a retaliation and they wanted it...yesterday. If you lived through those times, you realize this. The correctness of the 'war' wasn't as important as the retaliation.
 
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