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All-In [41914]
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So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 8:14 AM
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I'd like to hear your reason why. He's a pretty lackluster dude in all regards, and James Smith, despite the D by his name, is pretty moderate and a veteran to boot. But I want to hear insight from folks why they chose McMaster (if it's more than just "he's Republican").
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All-In [47788]
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you think James Smith is a "moderate"??
Nov 7, 2018, 8:18 AM
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have you reviewed his voting record? There are many, many votes where he is alone in his party on the left side of the ledger. There are many votes where the Senate is nearly unanimous but James is alone with one or two others. Now, don't get me wrong, I commend him for voting his conscience against what is sure was pressure to follow the majority, but his conscience places him on the far left.
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All-In [41914]
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He's pretty moderate compared to most Dems today, no?***
Nov 7, 2018, 8:20 AM
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All-In [47788]
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you talking SC dems or national dems?
Nov 7, 2018, 8:22 AM
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I mean, he's at least mostly capitalist unlike some of the socialist fire-eaters that won last night in the northeast
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All-In [41914]
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That's more what I'm saying.
Nov 7, 2018, 8:23 AM
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McMaster just strikes me as completely incompetent regardless of his party affiliation.
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All-In [47788]
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oh yeah, I would agree with that.
Nov 7, 2018, 8:32 AM
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I'm not a McMaster fan, never have been. Empty suit but SC has a weak governor anyway.
I'm much more annoyed with people like Hugh Leatherman
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Re: That's more what I'm saying.
Nov 7, 2018, 9:25 AM
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Yes. Someone who rises to the ranks of Attorney General is completely incompetent.
These kind of statements make you look foolish. State your exact issues with him or just keep your mouth shut.
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All-In [41914]
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Re: That's more what I'm saying.
Nov 7, 2018, 12:52 PM
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I'll do what I want, not do a #### thing you command me to do, and you'll ####### like it.
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Oculus Spirit [82958]
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All-TigerNet [13359]
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Fair question.
Nov 7, 2018, 8:18 AM
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I’ll just say that “fairly moderate” as a Dem is a tough spot to hold this day in age. IMO that only means they are huge liars on the stump.
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Oculus Spirit [97634]
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Easy for me. I know one personally and not the other.
Nov 7, 2018, 8:18 AM
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Was the easiest ballot choice I had yesterday.
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^^^^^***
Nov 7, 2018, 10:27 AM
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I'd be willing to bet that "he's Republican" is way too many
Nov 7, 2018, 8:21 AM
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peoples' answer....similarly, SheGUAR goes by the "they're Democrat" reasoning.
Maybe i'm 'too' squarely in the middle, but that just doesn't make sense to me
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It's actually a good rule of thumb
Nov 7, 2018, 1:21 PM
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Unless there are character issues or the candidate is an outlier ideologically, if you care about conservatism or liberalism, then you can usually just vote for somebody based on whether they're Republican or Democrat. There's no special virtue in being somebody who votes less coherently.
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 8:28 AM
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sorry... if you're looking for an answer more than "he's republican".. then i'd like to hear why so many women were voted into washington yesterday,.. and, i want to hear more than "she's a woman..or she's the first woman". but, i'll admit.. i voted straight republican cause i don't believe in murdering babies. i don't believe in open boarders.. i don't believe in "lets make this country as freaky as you want it to be".
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 8:48 AM
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You're against abortion, but you vote for the party that is consistently against policies that would prevent unwanted pregnancies. I'll never understand that.
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CU Guru [1134]
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 9:05 AM
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way to generalize my statement.. i have no problem w/ preventing unwanted pregnancies w/ any solution that doesn't include ending a life. period. i'm all for birth control, but once life is conceived in the womb... that is no longer anyone's life but it's own.
i'm not for defunding planned parenthood altogether.. just the part that kills innocent lives.
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CU Guru [1405]
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 9:11 AM
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Well that's already defunded. And you may personally be for whatever, but you vote for candidates who support policies that increase abortions. How does that jive?
I am against abortion too, that's among the reasons I vote for Democrats.
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 9:18 AM
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read this: http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Republican_Party_Abortion.htm and, tell me how republicans are for abortion.
honestly, i'm not saying you're wrong.. but, what you're saying is really confusing me cause as far as i knew.. democrats were pro-choice (for the right to abort babies).. and, republicans were pro-life (against aborting babies).. is that not right?
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I like the part where you chastise him for generalizing your
Nov 7, 2018, 3:57 PM
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statement when you generalized the Dems as Open Border loving, baby murdering, freaks. Also, I'm no engrish scholar, but your punctuation sucks.
I hate the P&R and I wish I hadn't come in here.
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CU Guru [1599]
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I wasn't able to vote but here why I wouldn't have
Nov 7, 2018, 9:25 AM
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voted for Smith.
He is either lying or is ignorant of one of his main topics. He is for lifting the solar cap on utilities by saying we need more solar. What he doesn't say is that you can still interconnect your residential solar. The cap referred to a special extra payment rate for that solar. That extra rate goes back into the rate base which means that all other customers are subsidizing it. You can afford $10k in panels but you want the old lady on fixed income to subsidize it? No thanks. So he's either lying or stupid.
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he's a trial lawyers puppet. he'll screw business's faster
Nov 7, 2018, 10:23 AM
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than Obumma.
He's fake as they come.
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Plus not voting for any Dems cause of Obummacare & Kavanaugh***
Nov 7, 2018, 10:30 AM
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He's drinking buddies with my uncle.
Nov 7, 2018, 10:38 AM
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I don't him, but my uncle is a huge deadhead hippie/moonshiner/hunter/all around awesome dude.
If he's cool with Uncle Adidas, he's cool with me.
also, I didn't vote. so there's that.
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Oculus Spirit [97634]
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He had a stage in his basement and sings and plays guitar
Nov 7, 2018, 11:12 AM
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And his dog Boots loves fried chicken (well, the old Boots - RIP). He threw an wedding shower for my college roomate once. Was a very grand affair upstairs on the main floor. Very nice house. Wife's awesome. Very formal, old school southern gathering. Then later we all retired to the basement. Tie got loosened, guitar came out, and was more of a casual party.
He's a lot like me and my dad. Comfortable at a black tie charity gala, or drinking moonshine by a fire listening to Skynnyrd with a bunch of hunters from Ravenel.
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 12:05 PM
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James Smith has an aggressive policy for gun control. He wants to ban the AR-15 and other common semi-automatic firearms.
There is absolutely no excuse to support a candidate like this. Any candidate that openly endorses violating the Constitutional and human rights should never be allowed to even be on the ballot.
He is an utter embarrassment.
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 12:21 PM
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I like that he’s pushing to have a trained officer in every school. I think it’s way past time we made that happen.
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Re: So for all the South Carolina folks here who voted McMaster
Nov 7, 2018, 12:48 PM
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The way to make for fewer casualties lies in school design, not having a cop there.
The cop helps in some situations, but design would help in all.
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I would like to know what ELSE he is proposing to keep
Nov 7, 2018, 1:54 PM
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kids safe at school, because armed officers in schools is only PART of a solution. If he thinks this is enough, then that bothers me more than if he had no plan, because that means he's content just trying to do the quickest and easiest thing vs trying to actually identify and address the root cause(s)
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