All of the Candidates for 2016 are mediocre or worse.

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But I can tell you the only 3 who I'd elect just because they are the only rational ones. They have decent plans.

1. Ben Carson (I support him 100%)
2. Rand Paul (I used to support him just as much as Dr. Carson, but he had to go to Haiti, and I don't think that favored him)
3. Chris Christie (My old favorite, the only reason why he's nearly last is because Trump stole his followers away, because he made being blunt increase tenfold.)

I don't think we'd want a Nietzian overman or overwoman, or what John Ralston Saul described as the 'secular hero'. France got one of those after the revolution, Germany got one of those in the 30's.

Well I know I'd want someone who is like Dr. Ben Carson who came from humble beginnings and retained that and is a pretty nice guy, he hasn't criticized the other candidates, if he has it was very subtle. It means he can focus on the job rather than politics and he can easily connect to the lower and middle class. He just reminds me a lot of Jimmy Carter.

Rand Paul has a history in Washington, but he is actually a good guy who has brought up a lot of good points, I can't recall all of them but if you just scrounge across his social media like on Facebook, you'll find a lot of what he has said interesting. He wants to get rid of the tax code, defund Planned Parenthood, put term limits on congressmen, ect.

Chris Christie, I have always respected him and loved him because he's blunt for the good reasons unlike Trump who is just blunt for the sake of being blunt and doesn't give a f about the quality of what he just said. Chris Christie said he would make his administration one according to the people and put his ideas as a last resort in the 2nd Republican Debate.

I've been voting since 1980, and I think this election cycle ranks at about the lowest as far as choice goes. The only people I see out there that I like aren't truly electable.

Uhh how does defending Planned Parenthood help anything exactly? Also what does Rand Paul want to do in place of the tax code?

I guess Carson and Christie aren't the worst of the republicans per say....but yeah I'd rather have Bernie Sanders than any of the republican or democrat canidates. For one he wont defund planned parenthood....so there is that, but also shutting down the for profit private prisons.

Isn't it always kinda that way?

Why not bernie sanders?

Why not zoidberg (V) (;,,;) (V)


Just couldn't help myself....

It has been, but this time is different, we are voting against the government.

A Trump/Sanders ticket would be the death of both parties.

Slay Dragons!

Call me a cynic if you want but I'd have to disagree. In the last 50+ years I've been voting I'm sorry to say no candidate rose to the level of mediocre and everyone was definitely WORSE than you'd expect. Democrats or Republicans always find ways to "give it back" to the people who funded them.....sometimes even at the last minute, pardoning drug dealers and other convicted criminals. Who would do this other than scum.

Did you just said that Ben Carson is rational!?

I'd vote for Zoidberg in a heart beat.

Maybe you should stop watching MSN on a regular basis if that fact surprises you.

Ben Carson has the right ideas, like focusing on Education and Healthcare.

At least he won't make another racial war and wreck the economy like a certain Bernie Sanders would, because all of his followers and including him are delusional if they think they can get any of what he's campaigning for accomplished and with the right results.

Socialism is for when capitalism has showed it's greed, and it needs patches (yes, patches, because they are temporary, because the corrupt always find a loophole).

Bernie Sanders has centered his campaign around social reform and budget reform.

What he hasn't told you is how much social issues depend on the economy for reform to succeed. A booming economy happens, and no one cries racism, sexism, or other -ism's because everyone has the money to live contently.

We're in a recession, and what does that bring? Blaming others, groups, and institutions for something as inconsistent as the economy.

These feminist groups are blaming men for their problems, and that is still sexism.

Black Lives Matter is violently protesting and blaming whites for their problems, that is still racism.

National Socialist Movement is blaming immigrants for their problems and that is still racism.

These other social activists are blaming other groups for their problems and it is still _____phobia.

Bernie Sanders promises other things like:

like refunding Planned Parenthood, instead of deliberating with the right or even negotiating for a better deal. He wants to circumvent the democratic process entirely.

I support abortion only if a woman's life is in danger or if she's a victim of rape.

I don't support Planned Parenthood because they are profiting off the mutilation of biological bodies who used to be alive.

These are the procedures of every type of abortion, and they are barbaric.

Abortion Procedures

If Bernie was truly for every human life, then he would not fund this atrocious organization.

Bernie Sanders thinks by raising the minimum wage to a livable standard that he can also create jobs... This is farce.

By raising the minimum wage, small business who produce the most of the economy, will fail because they are not as financially solvent anymore. They have to pay higher wages to workers, which will cut down funding somewhere else in their diminished budgets and they won't be able to compete with lower prices coming from corporations. Once this has drawn it's course, corporations will ultimately kill small business and then determine the prices of a market, which is a monopoly, they can raise the prices as much as they want.

Before a pseudo-economist comes running in to tell me I'm wrong, it's already happened with the last minimum wage increase, because it may not not affect city folk, yet, but it totally affects towns and small communities because whenever a Walmart moves in, it runs our local business out of business.

Immigration Policy needs to be strict, not passive, I myself am an immigrant and none of these illegals deserve a citizenship that they can have in 1-2 years when I've been waiting to get mine all my life. I propose abolishing birthright citizenship to non-residents.

Let's talk about why his budget reforms and propositions to outlaw some of the reckless stock market habits won't go according to Bernie's plan... Congress... A one word answer, they have had a past in business, and are still endorsed by several of them and they have had a past in the financial market, and they aren't going to comply to someone who wants to reduce their ill-earned profits.

And his budget reform... Do you realize how many lobbyists would be up the public's ass to prevent all the reform's he says he's going to do? Not to mention the companies who will "persuade" Congress not to pass them because they don't want to lose funds.

Free college tuition and finding jobs for young adults... I have one extremely irritating problem with this, there are people older than us, and have been unemployed longer than us, and Bernie is just telling us that it's okay to cut in front of them. NO, that's not right.

How about you start with the older people who actually want an education, than a bunch of college kids who, I'm not saying all college students are like this, just the rich ones and semi-rich ones, will just waste the system away like it was nothing to the tax payers?

Everything else on his campaign costs money and we're in a recession, it's a given that what he's campaigning will ultimately fail and sink the recession further.

Yeah, my own top choices would be Carson, Rubio, or Fiorina.

Then explain me how a creationist who denies climate change and believe that he know better that nearly all biologists, physicists and climatologists of the world can be considered rational.