The upcoming presidential race is already looking unfortunate.
The leading candidates on the Democratic side are woefully inadequate when it comes to pro-life and gay agenda issues - no surprise there. In fact, Edwards hired anti-Catholics and refuses to fire them. Obama is dangerous because he wants to talk like he has values, but wants to sell us a left wing agenda. Kind of like Bush’s compassionate conservatism where there really wasn’t any compassion - same thing, but from a liberal side. And Hillary is just Hillary - she is so pro-abortion it isn’t funny. But be careful, she learned to dance around the truth from an absolute expert. I have no idea what I am going to do for the primary - write myself in I guess.
On the Republican side, Giuliani is basically a Democrat on life and gay agenda issues. Voting for him would be about as bad as voting for Hillary. Here is a something I got from ontheissues.org:
“I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights,” Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. “No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing,” he responded. Why would any pro-lifer vote for this joker. You get the worst of both parties - a culture of death social policy, with Republican disdain for the downtrodden. Sorry, this is the WORST of both worlds.
With McCain and Romney, at least they are saying the right things, but both are flip-floppers. We may end up with one of these as the Republican candidate.
Brownback? He is right on all the life and gay agenda issues! For everything else, he is terrible: environment, helping the downtrodden, etc. Unless you are a big corporation, Sam won’t be there for your. Sorry, my pro-life agenda doesn’t end at birth.
Basically, before it even starts I know there is no candidate that represents me. Gee, another election among people that I don’t want. Great.
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5 Responses to “When do we get to see the REAL candidates?”
I am going through the same situation since none of them are that great. I have decided to support Brownback.
You haven’t heard about Sam Brownback’s long term support of the world’s most downtrodden, the 27 million people worldwide who are enslaved by some form of human trafficking.
Please learn more before you count him out.
Brownback is a good guy in the culture wars, but no friend to the working or the poor in the US. I’m keeping an open mind, but he is not what I want either.
You need to read up on Brownback a little more if you think he’s “terrible [on] … helping the downtrodden” or that he’s “no friend to the poor”. A good place to start would be this story in the St. Petersburg Times.
See also,
“Mr. Compassionate Conservative“,
“Sam Brownback Goes to Prison“,
and
“USCCB Official Expresses Gratitude to Sen. Brownback for Hearings on Capital Punishment“.
Brownback has also taken a LOT of heat from conservatives for having a humane position on illegal immigration and amnesty that closely matches that of the USCCB.
Seriously, Sam Brownback is the ONLY candidate from either party who takes seriously the whole range of Catholic social teaching. I urge you to reconsider your view on his candidacy.
(And no, I don’t work for the Brownback campaign. Just an interested Catholic blogger who tries to take the Church’s social teachings seriously.)
Brownback is a liberal globalist, has a pro-amnesty voting record, and is a a horrible public speaker.
Don’t waste your time on him.
