My liberal relatives overweight the importance of the so-called "Ick Factor."
It shouldn't be a popularity contest.
Regards,
It’s been a popularity contest for 60 years. I laugh when they compare Nixon to Cruz. I see it...both sneaky crooks. Cruz could be the second president to resign to escape impeachment.
It shouldn’t be but it will be.
But, alas, it is, which gave use eight years of Obama because Obama was "cool".
Obama and Trump have made me increasingly sympathetic toward the modern argument for a British (or Dutch or Scandinavian) style constitutional monarchy: the populace can lodge their affections on the monarch as head of state and the royal family, freeing them to vote on the basis of party platforms (or manifestos as they call them over here -- I'm sojourning in the UK this spring), rather than the personality of the candidate for head of government. I'm not entirely sure I buy the argument, but, as I say, I've become increasingly sympathetic to it lately.
“It shouldn’t be a popularity contest.”
Independent of the relative pluses and minuses of any of the candidates, unfortunately it always comes down to being a popularity contest. I wish it wasn’t that way, and that voters would be aware of the issues and how each candidate stands on those issues etc., but it just isn’t the case. Sad.
Liberals I know want Cruz and fear Trump.