AudreyHepburn wrote: » Hopefully now common sense will prevail and Michael D will stay where he belongs. Protest votes are dangerous things - we need only look to the UK and USA to see just how dangerous.
JMNolan wrote: » Presumably there is no risk even if Casey was elected. It's a position with no power, isn't it?
pjohnson wrote: » Yeah and the success of Brexit and Trump shows how these "protests" are so succesful. Neither became laughing stocks at all.
ARNOLD J RIMMER wrote: » So you are saying that people should vote on the status quo of political correctness so not to offend others. That doesn't sound like democracy.
TallGlass wrote: » Seems to have pulled out. Disappointing. A man sticking up for the tax paying middle class if you ask me. Even if he can't do anything, he has highlighted the anger amoungst us at the sheer waste of our tax money on ludacris items. The traveller issue to me is not an issue with travellers themselves but the sheer waste of money. Travellers or anyone for that matter refusing housing should be told to sling there hook and back to the end of the line.
Neyite wrote: » No political power yes, but visibility on the worlds radar, someone who is a bit of a loose cannon or not very eloquent at speaking might create diplomatic embarrassment.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Well, he has proven that he suffers from the same thing as those protesting that we 'have suffered this plague long enough' - he is too lazy to do anything constructive about it. A whole '90%' of da people were in frightened oppression by this plague, apparently and finally found de saviour - a spokesman, and what does he do? Takes a fecking break. Oh the travesty. :eek:
Berserker wrote: » Bit of a stretch? It's the president of Ireland we are talking about. How many media outlets around the world are covering this election?
super_furry wrote: » He was an idiot to drag this sort of stuff into the Presidential race. If he really cared so much and wanted to effect genuine change when it comes to property rights, trespassing and whatever else he seems to be on about, he'd stand as a TD. Although I suspect that wouldn't offer enough ego massaging for him as he thinks being President would.
TallGlass wrote: » Well I imagine seening this a few of the political parties might take a page out of the same book. So I would expect to see more of this come down the line.
ARNOLD J RIMMER wrote: » The only thing he was an idiot for was suspending his campaign. This fake uproar is embarrassing in Ireland. If you don't believe a candidate shares your point of view. Don't vote for them. Thats democracy.
Neyite wrote: » I'm not talking about election coverage. I'm talking about the 7 years of the actual job which entails meeting people from the very bottom and very top of a wide range of countries and cultures, discussing current affairs and being able to converse about potentially controversial subjects without causing offence as either a host or guest.
Laois_Man wrote: » If he pulls out, it confirms my suspicions. Casey never actually wanted to win - and now he's afraid he might! His statement regarding the reason for considering pulling out is ludicrous!
super_furry wrote: » If someone who's putting themselves forward for public office comes out with mad outlandish statements that have nothing whatsoever to do with the role they're attempting to take up, then people can point that out. A candidate can have any point of view they want. The Irish public can, as well as not voting for them, express their bafflement over behaviour that is wildly out of step with the job and the Presidential election process. That's democracy.
ARNOLD J RIMMER wrote: » Why was his statement outlandish? Are you saying only a tiny amount of people would agree with his statement?
weldoninhio wrote: » Could you explain this part?? Do you think he deliberately made the Irish Independent ask him the question he answered honestly???
Neyite wrote: » Given the way that Trump and Brexit happened by protest votes by disillusioned voters trying to make a point the people who are switching their vote from Higgins to Casey can still do the protest by putting Casey as their number 2 on the ballot paper with Higgins as the number 1 That sends the same signal and lessens the risk that we will actually have to have him as president.
super_furry wrote: » Correlation does not equal causation and all that but the way this poll from a few days ago on AH's relationship status lines up with the current presidential poll proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that After Hours needs to get the jump. And maybe cuddle afterwards.
Roger Hassenforder wrote: » What muppet is voting for Sean Gallagher?
