> what was the excuse for voting for him again in 2012?
It probably depends on which person you're talking about and how they decide to allocate votes: some people vote to signal some measure of approval of a candidate, some people vote to send one kind of message or another, some people just vote to select one of the available candidates.
> One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care.
I don't know what your level of familiarity with the various threats to civil liberties is, but after reading this, one could be forgiven for thinking that you don't know very much about the recent health care legislation if your working summary is that it provides for the government to have "every bit of control" over each individual's health care.
It probably depends on which person you're talking about and how they decide to allocate votes: some people vote to signal some measure of approval of a candidate, some people vote to send one kind of message or another, some people just vote to select one of the available candidates.
> One day they bitch about invasion of privacy the next day they want the same people to have every bit of control over their health care.
I don't know what your level of familiarity with the various threats to civil liberties is, but after reading this, one could be forgiven for thinking that you don't know very much about the recent health care legislation if your working summary is that it provides for the government to have "every bit of control" over each individual's health care.