anyone will be better than Bush

Except Huckabee. The man scares me. >_>

I'm hoping to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he's politically thrashed. Because. Wants to amend the Constitution to bring it in line with his religion. Doubleyou. Tee. Eff.

About all I can say in his favor is that he is at least open about it. *shudder*

Oh, probably -- but Huckabee is the only one I know of who 1) said he was going to try to change the Constitution, and 2) got Chuck Norris to endorse him. (Search YouTube.)

If I wanted a president who reminds me of Barrens Chat, I'd vote for Thrall/Sylvannas in 2008.

Huckabee gets major thumbs down if for nothing else than being one of the Republican candidates who not only admits that he doesn't believe in evolution and thinks creationism should be taught in schools, but is PROUD of it. On the upside, it also means he's extremely unlikely to have any appeal to any demographic beyond the hard-core conservatives who just want a stereotypical anti-abortion/anti-gay rights/religious conservative (and their credibility has been seriously lost over the past few years of Bush administration) and won't win over the moderate Republicans who are horrified at what's happened to their party --> Huckabee doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell THANK HEAVEN.

(Admittedly, though, I do give Huckabee props for having a good enough sense of humour to make fun of himself and play along with the jokes from The Colbert Report :P)

(and oh man, I read waaaaaaaaaay too much politics T_T)

It's not a Bush problem for me--every current Republican possibility is actively courting a demographic with the defining feature of hate. It does feel like something that Bush ushered in, but it's going to stick around well after he's gone. I can't help but think that we're going to read about this period in fifteen years the way we now read about southern governors screaming about black-white integration. What are they thinking? Surely power isn't worth bathing in that much filth & poison.

Even four years ago, if the Republicans had put up someone less reactionary than Bush, I would have considered that person at least as seriously as the Dem candidate. Bush was a deal-breaker on my voting Republican, but I leant towards McCain. This time, every Republican candidate is--crazy. It really frustrates me when Republican voters (especially women) go on and on about the "small government" principles they favour, while the party they're backing is taking active steps to interfere in women's medical privacy & everyone's privacy in general, and talking about erecting physical barriers & increasing infrastructure against illegal immigrants. The logic escapes me, all very strong moral opinions aside.

Having totally spilled out all over your journal--I'm not voting today. I prefer Obama slightly, but I will happily vote for Clinton if she's nominated. I have my reservations about both of them, but I think that they're both fundamentally positive choices at this point. I'm usually a "lesser of two evils" kind of person, but we've actually sunk so far under this last government that there's room even for a grasping politician with way more power than I think s/he should have to do some concrete good. :D I absolutely see where you're coming from on the international front--that's one of the ways I worry about Clinton--but on balance, I can't say that Obama would definitely be better. I'm leaving it to people who feel strongly, this time around.

But thanks for the link. :D

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, all three front runners -- Obama, Clinton, McCain -- are an improvement on Bush. (Huckabee doesn't have a feasible chance so he's a toss off) As far America is concerned, if they want to get past the friggin' 1960's thinking and the whole red/blue divide ... Obama's probably the best chance they've got. The number of times I've seen people on US newsblogs post that they've never before been interested or passionate about politics or their government but have now been motivated to donate or volunteer for the first time in their lives, all because of Obama, is just AMAZING.

/waves an Obama flag