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The candidates don't scare me nearly as much as the voters, to be perfectly honest. :-)
On the right, all of the candidates are completely unnacceptable to me. All of them are either pro-torture, pro-war, or both, which is a nonstarter for me. Other dealbreakers on that side are the 'Evilution is a theory' stance, and the various authoritarian/anti personal liberty views. All of the major republican candidates (as far as I'm aware) have been on the wrong side of more than one of those major issues for me. Ron Paul is interesting from a 'maverick' point of view, but he seems to be a 'libertarian' in the sense of repealing OSHA, no minimum wage, and being anti-regulation. Yuck-o.
And the left...well, Hillary is a hard-ass bitch, but that counts in her favor for me - what is it with people smearing democratic women for being 'too masculine', while all the democratic men get smeared for being 'too feminine'? I also don't get the criticisms of Hillary as being 'too political' - she's a politician, for crying out loud! I do agree with the 'too corporate' criticism, and, like pretty much all the other major candidates, she's far too authoritarian for my taste.
Obama - Seems mostly fine to me, though I'd like it if he were more assertive, especially in contrast to the bush/neocon worldview. As fair as I can tell, everything I've heard from him has been targetted at Hillary...which could be because she's the front-runner, or because that's the story the news media wants to tell. I'd vote for him over Clinton.
Edwards - I like him, but we're diving into 'not a chance of getting elected' territory.
Chris Dodd - He seems to match my views most closely, and I'd vote for him because he's fillibustering the horrible telecom amnesty/FISA bill - right in the middle of Iowa caucus season, when it would make the most political sense for him to be in Iowa, trying to drum up support.
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