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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Nobody is saying he would have made a mistake....they're saying that there would be votes that could be used against him.
The nature of legislative politics is that sometimes you have to vote for a bad bill....there are so many things attached to bills that have nothing to do with the original bill, that you're never voting for "everything" that is in a bill.
At some point someone would do something like attach a ban on partial birth abortion to a bill that funded veterans benefits.....now you either have to vote against veteran's benefits, or vote to ban partial birth abortion....what do you do?
With a long enough senate career you'll have dozens of situations like this that make great fodder for negative attack ads......there is a very good reason we haven't had a Senator get elected President since Kennedy.....and this is the reason.
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It could just be me, but wouldn't it be a good thing to know exactly what someone would have done given two unappealing choices, and hearing the reasons for that person doing so?
A president faces all sorts of tough choices. I'd say that it's a good thing for voters to know what someone actually chose to do when confronted with the need to make such tough choices.
Oh, and of course he would have made mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. The interesting thing is to see which mistakes people make, and what causes them to make those mistakes. That way, you have a decent indication of what will happen when they are put in a position of such immense responsibility as the presidency.