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Who are you voting for?

Reason did something like this before the 2004 election and I wanted to kind recreate it here. Feel free to add your answers in the comments.

Jason Pye, namesake and blogger
- Who are you voting for in 2008? I am undecided in the primary, possibly Ron Paul. I'll most likely vote for the Libertarian Party nominee in the general election.

- Who did you vote for in 2004? Bush, I really wish I could do that one over.

- What vote are you most embarrassed by and why? Bush. I voted for him in 2000 and immediately regretted it. I wish I had voted for Harry Browne. I voted Bush again in 2004 after reading John Hospers endorsement of him. Now I wish I'd voted Michael Badnarik in 2004.

- What issue(s) is (are) most important to you in this election? Decreasing the size of government, cutting spending and regulation and bringing our soldiers home from Iraq.

- Who is your favorite President? Grover Cleveland


Chris Farris, blogger and Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Georgia
- Who are you voting for in 2008? Anybody but Huckabee.

- Who did you vote for in 2004? Badnarik

- What vote are you most embarrassed by and why? Pretty Much all of them. 1996: Bill Clinton. 2000: Harry Browne, 2004: Badnarik. They were all losers.

- What issue(s) is (are) most important to you in this election? Government Spending. It either needs to be cut, or I need a $500,000 earmark.

- Who is your favorite President? Which one died a month into office?


Erick Erickson, blogger, influential conservative and Macon City Councilman
- Who are you voting for in 2008? Fred Thompson in the primary and the Republican in the General.

- Who did you vote for in 2004? George W. Bush.

- What vote are you most embarrassed by and why? I'm never embarrassed by my votes.

- What issue(s) is (are) most important to you in this election? Fiscal responsibility and a return to small government. The war would be second.

- Who is your favorite President? Calvin Coolidge followed very closely by Ronald Reagan.


Doug Mataconis, blogger and lawyer
- Who are you voting for in 2008? I will vote for Ron Paul in the Virginia Republican Primary, which will be held on February 12th. Beyond that, I have no idea. I am operating on the assumption that Ron Paul won't get the Republican nomination, so my vote in the General Election is still up in the air. I would not vote for Giuliani, Huckabee, or Romney under almost any conceivable circumstance and the only Democrat I could even see myself considering is Bill Richardson, who seems to be the only Democrat in the race who understands free markets even if he's not perfect. Right now, I guess I'd say that I would probably vote for the Libertarian Party candidate.

- Who did you vote for in 2004? I'll admit it, I voted for George W. Bush. I ignored all the problems I had with him, including the Iraq War, and voted for him over Kerry based primarily on the fact that I didn't think he would be strong enough in dealing with international terrorism.

- What voter are you most embarressed by and why?Voting for George W. Bush in 2004, because it was one of the only times I've actually compromised my principles in casting a vote. If I had to do it over again, I would not have voted for President at all.

- What issue(s) is (are) most important to you in this election? Controlling government spending and the growth of government, curtailing and reversing the growth of the surveillance state, reducing government interference in and regulation of the economy, returning power to the states and to the people ( i.e., turning the 9th and 10th Amendments into something other than an inkblot).

I'm sure there's more I could list. Ending the War in Iraq is important, but it's just a symptom of the overall problem of a foreign policy that has been both misguided and poorly executed over the past dozen years or more.

- Who is your favorite President? Thomas Jefferson


John Douglas, State Senator (R-Social Circle)
- Who are you voting for in 2008?