Why do Dems select flawed candidates?

Question

JFK was a womanizer and was probably dying from a immunity deficiency.

Ted Kennedy drowned his w***e girl friend then divorced his wife to marry some bimbo

Clinton got oral s*x in the White House while talking to his Joint Chief about Kosovo bombing.

Kerrey was a male prostitute and married a foreigner for money.

Carter was a peanut farmer from Plains GA.

Thomas Eagleton was undergoing shock treatment and didn't bother to tell McGovern.

And on and on.

Answer 1

Why, do Americans select flawed candidates? Because Jesus isn't available for the job. Democrats have not cornered the market on being flawed i.e. Nixon, Reagan, McCain, Eisenhower, Gingrich, Thompson, Guilani, and so on . That's why we have churches so people have somewhere to go to confess and be forgiven.

And since when is being a peanut farmer a flaw?

Answer 2

Warren G. Harding was selected to be the candidate through backroom deals and a rigged convention.

Harding had more financial scandals than any president before or since.

Harding had regular sexual trysts with his mistress in the White House residence, fathering at least one child.

Harding's wife is rumored to have poisoned him during his trip to Alaska in 1923.

Coolidge lets Harding's cronies run the White House.

Hoover sat by and did nothing during the Depression except tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps because he was too busy entertaining his fat cat cronies.

Hoover set the army upon the Veteran's March for benefits in 1932.  

Nixon let thousands die while working on his secret plan to end the Vietnam war.  It only took 4 years and more than half of the American deaths.

Nixon knew about Watergate and led the cover-up.

Nixon gave us the idea of executive privilege, that the President was above the law.  He started the Imperial presidency.

Ford obstructed justice by pardoning Nixon.

Reagan's staff convinced the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election based on the promise of aid in their war with Iraq.

Reagan told all that it was ok to hate the poor by cutting programs out and to the bone.  He closed state mental hospitals by cutting funding, almost singlehandedly increasing the homeless population by more than 10X

Reagan's tax policies shifted the burden away from the rich and onto the poor.

Reagan burned money by throwing $ at the War Department for new toys that did not work then and don't work now ie; Star wars missile defense still does not work in controlled tests unless the target missile is not moving.  And then only 1/3 of the time.

The first Bush was and still is a spy.  But, he still gets the Presidential daily briefing and reads it more thoroughly than his son.

Bush I invaded Grenada to protect American medical students attending a 4th tier school from a supposed socialist coup.

Bush II inherited peace, prosperity and a budget surplus from Clinton.  I don't know about the peace.  You'll have to ask my niece, who we buried in Arlington just after her 20th birthday.

I don't know about prosperity, you'll have to ask the parents of my patients who are being laid off and give up their health care to pay for their children's.

Bush II has set record debts and deficits, while building a palatial hacienda and grounds in Paraguay so he can retire to a country that has no extradition treaty with the United States.

So I guess the Republicans are perfect and the Democrats just want to have s*x.

BTW, Jimmy Carter did not want to become president, he did not want to farm peanuts.  He was a nuclear submariner, he earned his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and was a protege of Admiral Rickover to become the eventual CO of the US Navy submarine program.  Jimmy Carter was as close to the top of his class as McSame was to the bottom of his.  And Carter did not have the advantage of a father and grandfather both being Admirals who pulled strings.

Answer 3

Human frailty, we are all flawed in some way.

Of all the things you listed, Nothing was jumping out at me until your rant on Carter being a peanut farmer. As if that was dishonorable.

I disagree. Farming is an honorable profession.

Answer 4

Some of what you state is true but so what if Carter was a peanut farmer from GA? To most Americans that means he understands what the average person in the US has had to deal with to get ahead. And please, don't tell me you haven't heard about McCain boinking another woman while his wife was suffering and dying.

Where's your documentation that JFk was dying from an immunity deficiency? Even if it was so, he had the country's best interest at heart. There's no way the majority of Americans can say that about Bush/Cheney.

Answer 5

Everyone decent is already a member of the GOP. What else do they have?

Answer 6

First of all, everyone is flawed because nobody's perfect.  Secondly, the Dems are not the only ones who make bad choices from time to time.  Besides, don't you remember that Reagan was a Democrat before he became a Republican?