Interesting Viewpoint #2

[steve4102]

The question was asked.

If a candidate is anti-gun but favors everything else you believe in, would you vote for him? Or is the anti-gun issue a deal breaker no matter what?

How about we reverse it.

If a candidate is pro-gun, but favors NOTHING else you believe in , would you vote for him or her?

[NRA_guy]

That's a flawed hypothesis---trick question.

I have found that politicians who agree with me about guns agree with 99% of my other beliefs.

And those who do not support the Second Amendment will tend to support increases in welfare, cutting the military, increasing government power, etc.

Back around 1930 (when Republicans were hated in the Deep South and Democrats were the only candidates bothering to run) my mama was a young girl and heard her daddy talking about politicians. She had the following conversation:

Mama asked: "If a good Republican ran against a bad Democrat, which one would you vote for?"

Her daddy (after a bit of thinking) replied: "There's no such thing as a good Republican."

[76Highboy]

Where I draw the line is if a candidate believes in abortion I will not vote for them. But what I have found is my candidates line up with my beliefs fairly close.

[steve4102]

Originally Posted by NRA_guy

That's a flawed hypothesis---trick question.

I have found that politicians who agree with me about guns agree with 99% of my other beliefs.

And those who do not support the Second Amendment will tend to support increases in welfare, cutting the military, increasing government power, etc.

Back around 1930 (when Republicans were hated in the Deep South and Democrats were the only candidates bothering to run) my mama was a young girl and heard her daddy talking about politicians. She had the following conversation:

Mama asked: "If a good Republican ran against a bad Democrat, which one would you vote for?"

Her daddy (after a bit of thinking) replied: "There's no such thing as a good Republican."

I believe the same holds true for the Original " Interesting Viewpoint" question. Trick or Loaded question.

[Alpo]

I didn't answer the other one, but I will this one.

If there are two candidates, and both are pro-gun, and one does not agree with anything else I do, then NO, I will not vote for him just because he is pro-gun.

If there are two candidates, and both agree with everything I do, but one is pro-gun and one is anti. I will vote for the pro-gun one.

If there are two candidates, and one agrees with everything I do, EXCEPT he is anti-gun, and the other is opposite me on everything EXCEPT he is pro-gun, I will vote for the pro-gun one.

I am, pretty much, a "one-issue" voter. Gun rights. If you are against them, then I am against you. If you are for them, then I am for you.

As long as we are still armed, if whoever is in office decides to give citizenship to anyone in the world, or disband the Army, or institute a 90% income tax on everyone, then we can put his ass outa office and try again. They take our guns away, and WHATEVER whoever is in charge wants to do, he can do.

[norahc]

Originally Posted by steve4102

I believe the same holds true for the Original " Interesting Viewpoint" question. Trick or Loaded question.

Maybe I asked it in the wrong way then. I was trying to find of it a candidate being anti-gun was the deal breaker in your support for them, even if they supported everything else you believed in.

[BlackEagle]

Originally Posted by 76Highboy

Where I draw the line is if a candidate believes in abortion I will not vote for them. But what I have found is my candidates line up with my beliefs fairly close.

I agree, in most instances.

Over here, all the parties seem to be tarred with the same brush in the issues that matter to me, so it's harder to find a good party to vote for. Here we don't vote for candidates for offices. We vote for parties. My UK ballot paper has boxes for each party that has a candidate running in my area. The leader of the party that wins the most seats in parliament gets to be prime minister, or in the case of Scotland, First Minister.

We do vote for county councillors and community councillors by name.

Just a little cross cultural civics lesson, FWIW.

[gvw3]

I would not vote for anyone that is anti-gun. Nothing else about their views would matter to me. That is a deal breaker.

[Archie]

I would vote for an anti-gunner in the following circumstances:

Both candidates are anti-gun (to some extent or other), but one disagrees with all my other positions; I would vote for the one who agrees with me mostly.

I wouldn't like it, but it would still be better in the long run.

[Blackhawk Dave]

The problem is people like Sen Harry Reid. He has proclaimed himself to be pro-gun. But he has supported and introduced legislation to destroy our rights, to seize property, to empower the regulators, doing far more damage than if he agreed with me but was anti-gun.

That is the problem with the one-item voting process. It empowers people like Harry Reid when people don't look real hard at them. I can deal with someone who pretty much follows what I agree with except for a couple of things as opposed to someone who proportes to be for me on one issue but opposes me on all other things.

[RunningOnMT]

No. Gary Johnson is pro gun, among several other things I believe in, but he'll never get my vote because he's pro abortion. I love my guns and our gun rights and will die for that right, but the ultimate issue for me is the right to life.