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You want an Average Joe in the Street. Okay, I'm running! 
Don't all cheer at once!
Our first rule is no more televised elections; and no photographs either; you have to go by what you hear on the radio, or read! That's right, I said read!
Seriously, discriminating media started taking McCain apart when he first challenged Bush in the 2000 primary. He has some extremist right-wing positions, particularly with regard to criminal due process and something of a Napoleonic complex that might make him, well, a lot like Napoleon as a leader. "Newsweek" in particular, backed this up with quotes and anecdotes during their analysis of the candidates in the 2000 primary season. My own-town newspaper, "The St. Petersburg Times," another nationally recognized liberal font (one of the few in the South,) expressed similar concerns.
By the way, as another Floridian, I agree with the fellow who said Jeb Bush has some rather nasty tendencies as evidenced by his soon-to-conclude governorship of Florida. Besides the scandal at Children's Services; Bush's school vouchers virtually reinstituted busing, leaving financially-poor school districts without students, while others fought tooth and nail to enter so-called "quality schools" almost universally found in upscale burgs. This was recently, partially overturned by the courts and the whole "voucher" program, formerly a libertarian idyll, is no in doubt in Florida.
Bush is notorious for privatizing the state museum; virtually dozens of major cultural or historic preservation projects are endangered by his budget-slashing of services, as has disaster relief in hurricane-prone Florida and state support for law enforcement and fire, including surprisingly narcotics enforcement, formerly a conservative cause celebre. His "privatization" fetish also was applied to state prisons, making these already overcrowded, brutal "gladiator academies" even more shockingly medieval here. True Libertarians, like myself, have had to substantially reevaluate our politics after contact with this man; and his evil brother.
Jeb shares his brother's penchant for tax cuts to the extreme upper income group. His celebrated Everglades revitilization initiative was gutted with loopholes for Big Sugar, a major despoiler of South Florida's environment, by legislators from his own party, in the majority in both Florida houses; who are "more conservative" than he on the environment. He has prevented oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida, during his tenure; but appears to have used mostly his influence with the White House to do so and it is questionable whether this will survive his reign.
All in all, Bush III:
Don't all cheer at once!
Our first rule is no more televised elections; and no photographs either; you have to go by what you hear on the radio, or read! That's right, I said read!
Seriously, discriminating media started taking McCain apart when he first challenged Bush in the 2000 primary. He has some extremist right-wing positions, particularly with regard to criminal due process and something of a Napoleonic complex that might make him, well, a lot like Napoleon as a leader. "Newsweek" in particular, backed this up with quotes and anecdotes during their analysis of the candidates in the 2000 primary season. My own-town newspaper, "The St. Petersburg Times," another nationally recognized liberal font (one of the few in the South,) expressed similar concerns.
By the way, as another Floridian, I agree with the fellow who said Jeb Bush has some rather nasty tendencies as evidenced by his soon-to-conclude governorship of Florida. Besides the scandal at Children's Services; Bush's school vouchers virtually reinstituted busing, leaving financially-poor school districts without students, while others fought tooth and nail to enter so-called "quality schools" almost universally found in upscale burgs. This was recently, partially overturned by the courts and the whole "voucher" program, formerly a libertarian idyll, is no in doubt in Florida.
Bush is notorious for privatizing the state museum; virtually dozens of major cultural or historic preservation projects are endangered by his budget-slashing of services, as has disaster relief in hurricane-prone Florida and state support for law enforcement and fire, including surprisingly narcotics enforcement, formerly a conservative cause celebre. His "privatization" fetish also was applied to state prisons, making these already overcrowded, brutal "gladiator academies" even more shockingly medieval here. True Libertarians, like myself, have had to substantially reevaluate our politics after contact with this man; and his evil brother.
Jeb shares his brother's penchant for tax cuts to the extreme upper income group. His celebrated Everglades revitilization initiative was gutted with loopholes for Big Sugar, a major despoiler of South Florida's environment, by legislators from his own party, in the majority in both Florida houses; who are "more conservative" than he on the environment. He has prevented oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida, during his tenure; but appears to have used mostly his influence with the White House to do so and it is questionable whether this will survive his reign.
All in all, Bush III:
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