Take specific parts from the candidates and create your perfect candidate. Leave the flaming in other threads, just post your preferences.

McCain's National Defense positions.
Obama's charisma and public speaking.
Paul's views on personal liberty and limited government.
Romney's low taxes.
Tancredo's border security.

1/17/2008 6:43:26 PM

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"Take specific parts from the candidates and create your perfect candidate."

Can't be done. Neat idea, though.

1/17/2008 6:47:14 PM

Obviously it can't be done, but we can dream....

1/17/2008 7:02:09 PM

McCain's jaw
Obama's big crusty lips
Paul's ass
Romney's hair
Tancredo's suit

1/17/2008 7:51:06 PM

Gravel's willingness to speak his mind. Edward & Obama balance of a push for change with the ability to command top tier respect. Giuliani's experience minus the obsession with 9/11 that leans him too far towards security over civil liberties. Some of Paul's financial & constitutional responsibility, but not to the level that you lose sight of everything else. I'm okay with paying my taxes as long as I know they are being used right, and not to fund indefinite war. Speaking of taxes I was happy to see trucks preemptively salting the roads last night. The bipartisan respect that McCain used to have before he became a Bush lackey. Hillary's know how from having been around the white house, without her unwillingness to admit a mistake.

In the end the closest to what I want is an Edward-Obama 08 ticket that gets a good cabinet and advisers so that they grow fast, bring some change, get us out of Iraq, and improve things at home like education, health care, the environment, and civil liberties.

1/17/2008 8:31:51 PM

guillianis views on fags and abortion, mccains foreign policy, obamas speaking skills, romneys good looks(motherfucker is like 70 years old), bill clintons handling of the economy and fixing the deficit, the way the world views democrats, sarkozy's hot italian wife, putins muscles, amadinejads socratic questioning style

1/17/2008 8:38:43 PM

I think everyone is their own perfect candidate. And thats why we always have a hard time committing to one and when things go wrong feel fine dishing out the endless criticism.

1/17/2008 11:37:29 PM

Paul's everything

1/18/2008 4:14:39 PM

^really? I think I'd like to infuse Ron Paul's die hard advocacy of conservative ideals with the oratory prowess of Ronald Reagan.

1/18/2008 4:55:22 PM

1/18/2008 5:27:25 PM

1/18/2008 5:29:22 PM

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"I think everyone is their own perfect candidate. And thats why we always have a hard time committing to one and when things go wrong feel fine dishing out the endless criticism. "

i personally don't think i'd be a good president. i'm not a good enough speaker, nor am i driven enough to do a job that stressful and time consuming

1/18/2008 5:38:01 PM

But seriously, though... someone's perfect candidate is either an impossibility (Jesus, for example, might not be all that great if we were to get attacked by a hostile nation), or it's simply an incarnation of their own self.

1/19/2008 1:10:38 AM

Recipe for my Ideal Candidate

start with a strong broth, like Benjamin Tucker
4 pounds of Thomas Jefferson, that's the real meat of things
then I want some Noam Chomsky for complexity
half a cup of Kinky Friedman to spice things up
a little Henry Thoreau and maybe some Jean-Jacques Rousseau
and a dash of Eugene Debs to balance it all out
garnish with liberty and a pair of balls big enough to do what is right


"If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living."

- George Bernard Shaw

1/19/2008 1:25:56 PM

ANYONE BUT HILLARY PLZ

1/19/2008 3:20:08 PM

Recipe for my Ideal Candidate:

Laissez-faire capitalist

1/19/2008 3:52:27 PM