Big Issues

[lehighguy]

If your like me you hate both parties and feel they are practicaly the same. I found Bush and Kerry so repuslive I voted third party. However, there are time when one must sacrifice principle for practicality and vote for a major party.

We have a lot of different stances on many issues, but some are more important to us. Is there any one issue where you would vote for a major party (or if you already do, the other major party) because of thier stance on that issue alone (supposing thier other stances weren't too repulsive).

Mine is education. If someone offered to switch over to a private school voucher system, and it sounded intelligent and I thought they were honest then I'd vote for them. The major challenege of the next century is keeping our nation competitive now that 3 billion people have emerged from the depths of socialism to join the global marketplace. Education is the most essential part of this. The bar would be higher for Democrats, since the Teacher's Union has them in thier pocket. However, if they really genuinly ditched the teachers union and came up with the right proposal I could actually see myself voting Democrat.