Can you support a candidate and not agree with all issues?

I am leaning towards Kerry and find myself not agreeing with everything on the campaign trail but still respect him as a leader. I think it is important to not make anyone person so infallible that when they make an error , there is this sense of confusion of " he failed us". Look at the Repugs and Bush covering his booty every step of the way.

Yes.

aptly puts it, "the long answer" for me is, YEP.

...as would be the case with any of the Democratic nominees. Not a one of them matches my positions 100%...

See my avatar

I am an Independent (soon to switch to Dem so I can vote in primary), but I never have been a one-issue supporter nor do I ever agree on ALL issue. I am supporting Howard Dean, but feel differently about the gun issue.

But there are some BIG issues I could never look away from--abortion rights, gay rights and the environment. I can see differences on issues within these big three, but over all the candidate must basically be PRO on these three blanket categories.

Most of the issues I do agree on, and I really do like him for so many reasons. I like John Kerrey too, and think we could use another
J.F.K. in the whitehouse.

...ones that voted for and still support the Iraqi invasion. Of course, I will still vote for whoever runs against * . I'd just like to be truly happy with my choice for a change.

n/t

I rarely agree with my congressman, but he's a Democrat and I always agree more with him than his competitors, so he gets my vote.

Dean is moderate in his views, and he is not as liberal as I would like him to be.

But Dean is right on the war, and I support him because the total Dean package has more to offer to this country than all the other antiwar candidates.

I will also add, that I'll take any of the other antiwar candidates long before I entertain the possibility of voting for a prowar Democrat.

ALL of them believe in God. Nobody who can be elected to much of anything in this country can say openly that he/she doesn't.

I hate guns. It's too big an issue to mess with right now.

I'm for medical marijuana, but I hope it doesn't come up.

I'd like to decriminalize all drugs. hahahhahha. (I MEAN it, but there's no chance...)

I'm extremely anti-violence; I'd like a "use a fist, go to jail" law that even applies to first timers. Silly me.

More than anything, I know I'm not representative of most of society, and I feel that society should have a fairly accurate representation, not something that my arrogant wisdom presupposes.

Nobody's gonna agree with you on everything, but you still have to know where to draw the line. So, instead of wasting time making rules to aid you in the endless quest to avoid having to think, accept that things will have to constantly be addressed, and that time is better spent doing that.

I'd like a "use a fist, go to jail" law that even applies to first timers.

If I punch someone out, and there's evidence / witnesses, I'm pretty much going downtown.

Unless you meant, "use a fist, do time in the state prison." In which case, doesn't this really mean "use a fist, get anally raped by goons?"

Kinda harsh for the first timers, I think.

Is there a candidate who agrees with you on 100% of the issues? Is there a human being on the planet whom you agree with about EVERYTHING? If your answer to the question you posed is "no," then you'd better write in your own name, because no other candidate will be acceptable to you. I'm supporting Kucinich right now, but there are things about him I don't like too. There's an online presidential candidate matcher test now at http://www.selectsmart.com/president/ and I got a 98% match with Kucinich. That's good enough for me. That's as good as you're going to get in the real world. However, I'll vote for ANY Democrat over that %$#^&#$@ White House squatter.

Ron

Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Bobby Kennedy, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, etc. They were all Democrats, and the term DINO had not entered the vocabulary!

For example, none of them advocated a drug policy that made sense.

whoever it is!

on all issues?

I've never known of one.

and sometimes there is so much feuding on issues with Democrats that I wonder who is going to have the ultimate support of the party and the country

there are just so many issues out there that the odds of finding someone who thinks the same way about _all_ of them seem low to me-- unless perhaps your issue positions change to match a candidate, as I get the impression some Republicans' positions have with Bush, for example on the merits of unbalanced budgets.