Originally Posted by Morrigoon (Post 237084)

His tax policy is not why I prefer him over the other candidate. Just like someone could prefer McCain even if he doesn't support gay marriage. It takes more than one issue to make a candidate. You have to pick and choose which aspects of a candidate's position are most important to you, or which candidate falls more in line with your position than the other.

You could also call it the "two turds in the bowl" approach, although this year's crop are better candidates than we've been offered in the past.

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff (Post 237048)

Which Republican politician had a "little indiscrection" here.....I thought we were talking about a 17 year old girl who has never run for elected office?

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff (Post 237083)

But how is that 'hypocrisy"?

Originally Posted by scaeagles (Post 237082)

I realize that, ISM. Would it not follow, though, that her family would move to DC with her, making her much closer to her children than Biden was to his? And also there is another parent involved?

I don't see how that is stupid at all.

Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 237088)

Perhaps not, but it is damned ironic!

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 237090)

so I guess you and I agree these are non-issues.

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis (Post 237012)

I can't help but think that if the Democrats nominated a black woman to be vice president and it turned out her teen daughter was pregnant and the boyfriend was quoted saying the kind of macho things one would expect a black teen to say that there would not be this outpouring of sentiment from the conservative family values crowd.