Who would you vote for: Caesar or Cicero?

[BurtWorm]

Poll question: Who would you vote for: Caesar or Cicero?

Caesar

Pros: He's a member of the populares party, more radical and anti-conservative than the opposition. Wants to shake up the state so the people who've been getting fat off it have to spread the wealth. He's an excellent politician and an ingenious general.

Cons: He's really in it for himself. Wants to be crowned emperor.

Cicero

Pros: He wants to save the Republic, prevent an Empire from being established. He believes in laws, not men. Also a humane governor in Sicily and Greece.

Cons: He's willing to break laws to save them. His attempts to save the Republic result in a major crackdown on members of Caesar's party. Also double-dealing and capable of being flattered into abandoning principles and a member of the most conservative party in Rome.

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Hail Caesar!

Great salad dressing!

[BurtWorm]

2. Personally, I think it's time to move to Greece.

[YNGW]

3. Caesar

Gotta go with a winner.

Call Herennius. We've got a job for him.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Wait a minute!

What about Biggus Dickus?

[damnraddem]

10. Actually,

what about Pompey?

[markses]

5. My heart wants to go for Caesar

since I'm an inept little proto-fascist shit that simply loves being repressed and organized (that is, I'm a centrist). But then again, I'm an American and therefore susceptible to nearly any well-planned rhetorical performance, and Cicero is, after all, a master rhetorician and rhetor - haven't seen the likes stylistically since Theophrastus rocked the house with the Peripatetic Crew - so I'll almost certainly be swayed by his the sweetness of his style. ;-)

[BurtWorm]

6. Poor Cicero needs a better PR guy than me.

I made him sound awful. Then again, so did Anthony Everitt's biography of him!

[kodi]

7. anyone else know that Apollonius tutored both men?

http://www.freewalt.com/socialstudies/history/world/grecoroman/laterepublic.htm

[On the Road]

8. I Can't Believe All the DU'ers

voting for the man who destroyed the Roman republic and replaced it with an empire! ABC for me.

[damnraddem]

9. I won't vote for either.

And in ancient Rome, there was a Green party (well, it was involved in chariot racing, but still ...).

[NoPasaran]

11. Caesar is a thug

Just a power hungry warlord bent on assassinating the the Republic.