The GOP's Third Party Option

[Lily_Bernans]

I doubt that any reasonable person would say that Republicans are being held to – or are willing and able to follow – a ‘higher standard’ in this election cycle. To the contrary. Attacks based on the size of a candidate’s ‘hands’ or against a candidate’s wife are pretty low by any standards.

I agree. I wish all the candidates - Republican and Democratic - would get to the issues and stop the sniping.

 

[GEddie]

Attacks based on height are just as bad as the one about the hands.

Right now, sadly, it’s the Democrats who are maintaining whatever dignity the electoral process still has.

ICXC NIKA

 

[pnewton]

It disappoints me to see Catholics so judgmental of others. If I don’t really know a person I don’t judge them, nor believe what others say about them.

Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, good or bad?

We most definitely can, and must judge whether someone has indicated the moral standard we expect in the leader of this country, even though we do not personally know them. In accordance to the teachings of Jesus, I think everyone here would expect and welcome the same level of judgment if we were runnning for office. Likewise, if one of these candidates were to die tomorrow, I do not think a single one here would be speculating on the state of their soul.

 

[petra22]

My wish is that people would listen to the candidate with an open mind and listen to the whole response and not the sound bites played over and over leaving out pertinent information. We cannot be fair and balanced if we are not allowed to hear the whole story… If you get it from two or three sources and it’s different each time–maybe there’s a reason for that. Maybe you don’t know the whole story.

I just want to get to the truth. I can look at a video and see something for myself and then listen to reporters cut it off at a certain place and make up a headline. Give me a break. Do they think we can’t see more to the story?

I just hate the manipulation of facts. Sometimes the facts are scary enough…

 

[CaptFun]

Well, if the candidates are Trump and Hillary, I won’t vote for either.

I might write someone in.

And I might go back to being an independent.

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Are you blonde Mary Gail (see above)?

If not … it appears there’s at least two of you that feel that way.

I’m close … but there’s at least one MORE that I know I can’t vote for.