For whom should I vote?

I like Hunter, and what I’ve seen about Smith’s past isn’t horribly bad, though I can’t understand how he could endorse that traitor John Kerry, but I think his time has passed and he needs to step back from this race.

Maybe wait till 2012 and knock Nelson out.

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And when I see his pic I can’t help to keep thinking what the left will be saying;

“Hey look, The GOP is putting up another ‘old white guy’.”

As with every election, voters will have to decide whether a candidate’s position and record on the issues they find important outweigh the mistakes, foibles, poor reasoning or missteps common to all candidates.

Remember Dan Quayle who read a cue card which misspelled the word potato? To some, that was enough to disqualify him for office.

Remember when President Ford tripped on a step when disembarking from an airplane? That was enough for some to think of him as weak and question his eligibility for office.

Remember in the California U.S. Senate race when Sen. Cranston defeated the Republican candidate who was an experienced business man and strong conservative except he was pro-choice? Pro-life advocates abandoned the Republican. Later, Cranston was one of the leaders in the U.S. Senate to lead the charge to bork Bork for nomination to the SCOTUS. Bork would have been an outstanding justice on the life issue.

The challenge is to temper emotional reactions and look at the big picture.