After David Potter defeated Frank Chestney in the Republican primary for Ohio’s 13th Congressional district, I wasn’t sure who I wanted to vote for in November. Today, I was doing a little more searching on the candidates and came across a press release from Potter on the FISA bill. In it, he attacks the incumbent, Betty Sutton, for voting against the bill.

It was news to me that Sutton had voted against FISA. Good news. Upon further investigation I found that she also consistently votes against funding for the War in Iraq. While most Democrats denounce continuing the War, they end up caving in and voting to fund it anyway; not so with Sutton.

While Sutton votes with the rest of her party 98% of the time (which I view as a bad thing), I think she takes some important stands. Specifically on privacy and the War, as mentioned above, as well as corruption in Washington.

On the other hand, Potter is a lockstep neoconservative. I haven’t seen evidence to show that he differs from the standard neocon mold in any way.

Given that I don’t support the ideals of democrats or neocons, I’ll vote for the candidate who works against her party in favor of my views on some of the issues I find most important for this election cycle.