So the actual main reason I created this blog will have to wait, probably until well past this November's Election Day. I'm not sure why I had settled on that day as personal "deadline," I mean, I have no readers and even if I did, I doubt I'd sway anyone’s opinions. Heck, I never even expected to be done by then, just started...
Oh well, c'est la vive... Hopefully I'll be able to get started by Inauguration Day. If Sen. Obama wins, my little project will have a small air of subversiveness to it. If Sen. McCain wins, well, I'll be able to type that much faster with the aid of the magical leprechaun and rainbow unicorns.
But, how about some actual content for today, eh? Marko Kloos, the Munchkin Wrangler extraordinare, has another essay on his blog where he nails it right on the head:
Every election ... turns into a sort of nose-holding game, where we are faced with the choice of sacrificing one of our guiding principles for another, purely on the speculation of which candidate is just a little less dangerous to those principles at that moment. If I want the candidate who recognizes my right to self-defense and a larger portion of my own paycheck, I have to tolerate his flag-waving authoritarianism and his religious favoritism. If I want the candidate who will keep his hands out of my sock drawer and his holy book out of my public school, I have to contend with his opinion that someone else has a claim to my paycheck as well, and that I can’t be trusted with the means to defend myself.
RTWT.
I voted Libertarian in 2000 and 2004; In 2000, then Gov. Bush was a corrupt oligarch, in what I though was the worst way possible for a politician... (Little did I know what Putin & Assoc. had planned). Vice President Al Gore, well, I saw in him a continuation of all the failures of the Clinton presidency, but with no promise to continue any of its successes, which I saw as being largely attributable to Bill's charisma.
In 2004, well, I still disliked Bush for all of the reasons I had in 1999/2000, and he had piled up a whole slew of new reasons for me to dislike him. But Sen. Kerry... well, heck, he was 'Anti-' everything that I was 'Pro-' and vice-versa. Except on days when he wasn't. Or he was Anti-X before he was Pro-Y. 'Flip-flop' and 'waffle' are phrases that I feel get bounced around to casually in politics these days, but Sen. Kerry worked overtime to earn those labels.
So I voted Libertarian, and I got nothing to show for it. Heck, I didn't even get my views represented by the Libertarian Party in the next presidential rat race... The LP candidate this year is Bob Barr! For the love of Thomas Paine, people, what are you thinking!
So, I backed Fred Thompson in the 2008 Primary. To say that he failed miserably would be an understatement, and I'm stuck voting for Sen. McCain. I am once again forced to vote for a giant douche or a turd sandwich. Hurrah for democracy!
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Thanks to the timing of my naturalization, I've only been able to vote in one Presidential election so far, but at least I can claim to only ever have voted 100% Libertarian.
I have to say, however, that McCain's genius pick of Sarah Palin is almost enough to make me want to pull the lever next to the (R) ticket this year. $DEITY knows I won't cast my ballot for Bob Barr, who's about as Libertarian as Mussolini.
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