“Mainly because she failed to follow up on them or back them up with a plan and/or further ideas. That’s what I meant.”
Fair enough. Thanks for explaining. I saw things from a different perspective, that’s all.
As far as campaign platitudes, obama set that bar low, unfortunately, with HOPE ‘n CHANGE.
But if an issue is sensible and I know it’s doable, that’s one way I judge whether a candidate is spouting platitudes or not. So basically, I think of platitudes as being what they say to get elected - yet we know it’s not likely to happen.
However, every time I saw Christine being interviewed, she was specific in what she wanted to do. One of her main goals was to introduce legislation to eliminate the death tax. It’s devastating the farmers and other small business owners in Delaware — to the point they’re losing their family business — forced to sell in order to pay the taxes.
I don’t know how much of an explanation of a plan that requires, just do it. [Although I do realize Washington’s way has to be mucked up so they can appear to be doing something]. But can you imagine if she had been elected and was able to accomplish just that one thing!
But all in all, when she talked about what she wanted to accomplish, her goals sounded reasonable and very doable. That in itself goes a long way with me. And there were many times where she did explain further than just an idea.
“However, if we all pretend that every single conservative candidate is 100% wonderful, we’re in for a wake up call.”
I don’t think any of them are 100%, but she wasn’t all the lousy things that were said about her - it was ridiculous to the average viewer - and at times those who were saying it bordered on appearing strangely maniacal. [I could name names, but won’t].
“Some focus on fiscal issue (Yay!), some focus on social issues (Yawn) - and half the people on FR would switch my parenthetical Yay and Yawn.”
Social issues and fiscal issues can not be separated no matter how hard someone tries. Our income tax was set up in order to fund a war and protect this nation’s interests, not to buy votes. Yes, there are a couple of exceptions, such as taking care of those who are helpless.
Last point, I don’t really pay attention to whether or not it was a well-run campaign or a lousy campaign. I honestly wouldn’t know the difference because that’s not where my focus is, ever. I believe that’s what the “smart” people on BOR and Hannity say in order to take the focus off of what is important to this country. They obviously know the unwashed masses will repeat it and then everyone who does feels superior with what they learned from the “smart” people and will only vote for people who ran great campaigns. Doesn’t that sound odd to anyone else?