Edwards supporter here...if you've seen him speak personally, he seems very real. What seems like too much for TV is actually his real wattage, I think. I like Obama, although some of his missteps are a little embarrassing lately. I actually like Dennis Kucinich quite a lot, despite him being kind of magnetism-free(which he is so consistent about, it's almost his own magnetism.Policy-wise we agree a lot.) Personally, I like HRC, but I liked her a lot more before she decided that everyone should, and What Gud Said.

Mike Huckabee has been very charming on TDS, and I always think I like him until I look at his actual politics. Then not so much.

I made the mistake of voting for him years ago, as he managed to conceal his opportunism, crookedness, and contempt for the people who elected him while he was the minority party lieutenant governor. But a governor that will publicly disparage the people of the state he's in charge of at the convention where he's supposed to represent them to curry favor from national level party bigwigs will never get my support.

I don't guess I find McCain scary, exactly--he's just managed to fritter away every bit of respect I had for him back in 2000.

This is me. Until he voted to let Bush have political prisoners detained and torturedinterrogated indefinitely, I might have voted for him in a Clinton v. McCain race. But he's spent the last 3 years pissing away every bit of integrity he possessed in pursuit of the nomination.

My feeling about Giulliani amounts to "Oh well, at least it'll probably be a gay-friendly police state."

Do you think there's any country where the politicians are actually nice people and not corrupt gobshites/bugfuck crazy?

Unlikely. Anyone who wants power enough to become a politician probably shouldn't be trusted with that power.

As an aggregate, or individually? I think we have some prominent politicians that are here (Obama and Feingold spring immediately to mind), but I'm very skeptical of any national government being without its fair share of crooks and loonies.

Do you think there's any country where the politicians are actually nice people and not corrupt gobshites/bugfuck crazy?

Norway?

Do you think there's any country where the politicians are actually nice people and not corrupt gobshites/bugfuck crazy?

Liechtenstein?

Regarding Ron Paul and capital punishment, he's come to oppose the federal death penalty, but thinks it's just ducky if the states want to do it.

I did not know that. And here I was thinking, "My god, a Texan who doesn't think the execution chamber should have a popcorn vendor!"

At least the cognitive dissonance is fading.

Do you think there's any country where the politicians are actually nice people and not corrupt gobshites/bugfuck crazy?

Ooh. I know.

Freedonia!

Lets all move to Freedonia!

If it makes you feel better about your head of state, our Taoiseach was recently giving evidence in a tribunal investigating his finances a few years ago. His excuse for the discrepancies in his finances? He deposited a briefcase full of foreign currencies at one point.

Who uses that as an EXCUSE? What world would you have to be living in to think that carrying around a briefcase full of cash is the lesser of two evils?