Yeesh. Everyone I know is gah-gah over politics lately.
"Bush is a
right-wing neo-nazi!"
"Kerry's a flip-flopping liberal
traitor!" "Nader for Pres...er...Nader for
Being on the Ballot!"
Good grief. But, I'm still stuck with the choice of who to vote for shortly.
The problem is, I don't like any of these clowns, and the
more I learn, the
less I like them.
Bush wants to take away my
personal
privacy and violate my
civil rights, wants to take the choice of when and how to bring a
child into the world out of the
mother's hands, seems to have a
religious
agenda that's incompatible with both my beliefs and the concept of
separating church and state, and doesn't seem to bat an eye at
invading a
sovereign nation with a nebulous goal of
"gittin' terrists".
His administration also has far too much interest in the
sexual and other private habits
of the citizenry. Perverts. Stay the hell out of my bedroom,
Ashcroft.
Kerry and the Democrats, on the
other hand, would love to take away the means for a private citizen to
defend
themselves, institute large numbers of social programs that I'd
pay for (but wouldn't help me in the slightest), and generally spend a
lot of money and pass a lot of laws "for my own good". Father knows best;
we wouldn't want you to have to be responsible for your own actions or
anything terrible like that. They've also made a mockery of the
democratic process by doing their damnedest to keep
Nader
off the ballot (it's painfully obvious why they're
doing it, but it's still incredibly rude of them.) And the
latest news
from the Kerry campaign is that
Bruce Lehman (from the
original Clinton administration) has signed on as the fellow for
crafting the campaign's position on intellectual property (you may assume
that I consider him as bad a choice for this role as I considered Ashcroft
for Attorney General).
Then there's Nader. He's more than
a little nuts, and although he makes a token showing each year, there's
really very little hope of this fellow actually making it into office,
especially without the backing of a party of any kind. A vote for Nader is
a vote for Mickey Mouse,
at the end of the day.
Oh, let's not forget my favorite marginallized party, the
Libertarians. While their party platform
is the closest to my views of the bunch, they've consistantly put
themselves on the sidelines by failing to effectively market themselves
and selecting unknowns as their party favorites. Who the devil is
Michael Badnarik? Why is his
website a jumbled mess of random thoughts? But hey,
free
bumpersticker. ;-)
So, who do I vote for? In the end, I have to pick the one I think will do
the least damage. Bush took us to war, without much in the way of credible
reason to do so, other than the fact that he wanted to pick up where his
father left off. I also voted for him four years ago. But I don't see that
happening this year; the least damage, in the end, will probably be done
by the
bumbling fool
rather than the aggressive idiot; congratulations, George, you scared off
even the
conservative
contingent that I usually find myself siding with. I love politics. :-P