No matter which party you favor or which policy you support... shouldn't both sides be able to offer a candidate who is 'not a lying retard'?!Is that too high a standard to set?


I'd love to be able to feel 'ok if my choice wins I'd be pleased, but if their opponent wins... they are a qualified intelligent person and will do a good job even if I don't agree with their Point of view on some issues.'

Is that really too much to ask?

In today's political enviroment, YES.

By that you mean Bush's 8 year fuck up rampage, right?

I can actually understand why you would think that.

qualifed people don't run because assholes turn up every quasi-bad thing they did going all the way back to grade school. Who wants all their private shit made public? The people that run don't give a shit which to me shows lack of pride in oneself.

As it is supposedly a "government of the people" I have always thought the most fair scenario is for ALL government representatives, from the smallest, all the way up, to be decided via a lottery system. Also, very short terms. Kind of like jury duty, but for political positions.

Hey Bob, looks like I'm the governor for the next 2 years, please water my plants while I'm gone.

You'd think that with all thats being said about how there's all this anger and such, that it'd be more than the normal completely expected mid term loss for the party who holds the white house.

Hell, even THAT is in doubt now. Can the GOP hold out and actually win back something? I was much more confident on election eve that they'd take back the majority in congress than I am today.

Just out of curiosity, in your neck of the woods could you sell it right now for 165k? Market is still somewhat depressed here.

Bush made a bunch of mistakes, two wars being the worse, Obama and his merry band of democrats have done worse, like blow a trillion dollars on nothing

Homes are starting to sell, we have a lot of people that want to retire here and I have one of the biggest homes in the track. Most of the homes are 1200 sqft , mine is 1700 sqft

That's cool, Texas is still humming along adding min wage jobs and except for Austin and a few of the Dallas suburbs hasn't started moving yet.

If Bush's worst mistakes were the two wars that cost well over a trillion dollars, how are any of Obama's mistake worse? Forget the fact that the Bush family are criminals and you still have no idea why you are fighting over there.

don't forget that a GOP controlled congress passed and Bush signed the medicare prescritption drug act that will also cost nearly a trillion $$ over it's first 10 years. Then the GOP wants to bash Obama's health care plan.

Remember how the GOP went after Clinton, like fucking scumbag animals?

That's what we will see again times ten, should the Republitards get ANY majorities in November.

You think this country is bad now....