I vote for the individual also, I mean if you look at my first post since I have been able to vote for President, I have voted for Obama twice, Bush II twice, Clinton once, and Bush I once, so I am definitely one that looks at the individual. The thing is so far I have not seen one Tea Party person that I would vote for, so that is why I tend to paint with a broad brush with the Tea Party. Notice I said TEA PARTY, not Republican, because while I have yet to see any Tea Party candidate I would vote for in any type of election, there are Republicans that I do vote for and will vote for in any election.
I can look past labels easily, hopefully you read my response above to Keith. I will say again for emphasis, I will vote for a Republican, I will vote for a Democrat, and I have yet to find a single Tea Party candidate that I would vote for. I personally don't care what the person's sex, age, religion, skin color or where they are from(except maybe North Dakota...
to a Montanan North Dakota=Tennessee to a Kentuckian) if they are a good candidate I will vote for them. I guess when I see the Tea Party I just don't see a candidate I can support, there have been a couple of Tea Partiers in local elections(or Constitution Party candidates as they call themselves in Montana and predate the Tea Party), and in Montana elections and I just can't support them, their world views are off the wall or in my local elections are just the most racist people around. As far as the viable Presidential candidates, I just don't like Cruz, Paul, Rubio, Perry, Huckabee, Cain, Santorum, and probably a couple others I can't remember, that I believe are all Tea Party darlings, I just have issues with every single one of them. Like I said this isn't some sort of broad brush for all Republicans, I mean I would vote for Christie and he is a GOP member.
Now if it want to call it bias, you can call it bias, but how is that any different than how anyone chooses a candidate to vote for? I follow politics enough, and I am open minded enough, and I am a big enough researcher to make up my mind on every viable candidate, to run every single candidate through my personal beliefs in what I want to see in a candidate and then pick the one I will support while eliminating all other candidates. I guess I just don't see what it wrong with doing it that way? I mean how else am I supposed to pick a candidate?
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