Stop falling in love with politicians.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Politicians aren't your friends. Successful ones are ego and ambition driven sellout compromisers of one degree or another. Successful national ones are all that x 10.

Occasionally you'll get one that isn't the above (Kucinich) but not a successful one.

They can "care" at the same time but that doesn't mean they aren't all of the above. Flawed people. Also gifted.

The point being if you are actually planning not to vote for one of the three (alike) Democrats running right now because they "offended" you during the primary, that's irrational. You're putting love for a half-man half-machine over the best interests of yourself and the US.

I can understand people who already decided based on a "pet" issue that they can't compromise on (can't think of what that would be in the Democrats' case since they all dithered on the IWR and are the same on guns, abortion, gays) but not based on how things played out in a primary campaign. That's just not intelligent.

[cali]

1. stop falling in hate with politicians n/t

[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. An even better way of putting it eom

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[Catherine Vincent]

2. Word!

[dionysus]

3. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

this coming from person who posts a spamathon of hate threads daily?!?!

BWWWAaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[shaniqua6392]

5. I know what you are saying.

I plan on voting for whichever Dem comes out at the end with the nomination and that will probably not be decided for a while yet. In the meantime, I just read what I think will be relevant and disregard the posts by losers who just signed up on DU a week ago and already have 300+ posts! LOL!! Politicians are all self serving and I think we should be very careful of worshiping "false Gods", so to speak. BTW...I am in Michigan so my primary vote will not mean a thing.

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[Gman]

7. A politician will ALWAYS break your heart

at some point. That's the biggest reason for not falling in love with ANY politician.

It's like watching a train wreck to see the people here who are so enamored with their candidate and who they perceive their candidate to be based on what they've read and heard.

Every candidate running is completely an image based on how they decided to market his/herself. The image may or may not be real. This includes Obama, Edwards AND it includes Hillary, who I am supporting.

[cali]

9. I've been very fond of both Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders

for quite some time. They rarely let me down.

[Gman]

13. And probably the most reliable is Sanders

There are some exceptions. Henry B Gonzales was a hero for me. He was every bit as reliable as Sanders.

The rest of them are nothing more than one night stands and don't expect anything in the morning.

[redqueen]

8. Stop thinking that what you have to say carries much weight around here anymore. (nt)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. I completely agree

Every one one of these candidates should be approached at arm's length. We should make them prove to us that they deserve our vote. We should play hard to get and not treat them as our lovers. When you're in love, you often don't see or refuse to see the blemishes and bad side of the beloved. I see a lot of that here. Obama can do no wrong and has never done any wrong. Hillary's morning dump smells like roses. Edwards is a self-sacrificing Saint for the working man. These are people. They are as flawed as any of us. Pay attention to what they've done, not who they are in our fondest dreams.

I don't have a favorite candidate. I am not getting excited. In fact, the closer to election day it gets, the less excited I get. I hate the American way of turning a candidate into a marketed product with campaign hats, buttons, balloons that fall from the ceiling, the obligatory children and spouse who have to accompany the candidate on the podium, the invocations of God, the dog and the dog's cat coming along to show what a goody two-shoes the candidate is. I really hate the American way of turning campaigns into love fests for the candidate like a High School election. I am doing my best to see this purely with my head and not at all with my heart.

I agree with you. I don't want to elect a friend. I don't want to elect "one of us". I don't want to relate to the candidate. I don't care what the candidate does in their personal life. I just want someone who can do the job and do it in a way that serves the interests that I value.

[Fovea]

11. About that pet issue.

Univeral single payer health care is about the only chance I have of making sixty, and I am in my early fifties.
So my pet is about the size of a blue whale in my little corner of existance.

[vee]

12. Yeah, hate em like most sane people do Hillary.

[mopinko]

14. siop spewing lies about candidates. how about that?

talk about you brass balls

[eridani]

15. I was in love with Kucinich in 2004. After a hard reality jolt--

--I figured that it would take more time than a couple of presidential cyles to enact even part of his agenda. I still support him because he is the only candidate close to asking for most of what I want. You never ask, you never get.

[YOY]

16. There's always room for Jello!