A Few Words About This Presidential Thing
I am totally disaffected with so-called conservatives; none of them stand for what I believe in. The alternative is a horror show too awful to conceive, but we're going to screw around and lose this year. My traditional $100 election bet on the good sense of the American people is going to the USO, where it may do some good.
The pundits say we're split between the national security camp, the economic camp, and the social/moral values camp. Lincoln said it best: a house divided cannot stand.
I played with an interactive quiz on Dish™ the other day. It said that I am best aligned with Duncan Hunter. Well, he's out of the race, and my guy Fred is about pooped out. He'll be dropping out any day now. McCain is an honorable man, but I like him better as a Senator, and don't want him for my president. He has a terrible temper; not that there's anything wrong with that. . . I have a vicious temper, but I'm not running for anything. My first instinct is to put a smart bomb through someone's bedroom window; this isn't the best way to conduct foreign policy.
No problem with Romney; I guess he's the economics guy. I can even stomach Giuliani. The thought of the She-Devil or Osama Bamalama creeping into 1600 Pennsylvania is too much to bear. I want Big Bill to keep exactly on course, and keep opening his fat mouth. He is the perfect representative of liberal ideology.
What I'm probably going to do is vote my conscience, and vote for the Libertarian. That party, too, has strayed far away from what they're supposed to stand for. I'm an old-school Libertarian; I believe in what Ayn Rand stood for, not what the party became after her death in 1985. One of these days, we will change things.
Until we do, we'll have the two-party system. Liberals who want to give away everything of value to America, and so-called conservatives who want to do the same thing, but only if they make a profit off the deal. When I was young and stupid and thought I had politics all figured out, I used to say there isn't a nickle's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.
The pundits say we're split between the national security camp, the economic camp, and the social/moral values camp. Lincoln said it best: a house divided cannot stand.
I played with an interactive quiz on Dish™ the other day. It said that I am best aligned with Duncan Hunter. Well, he's out of the race, and my guy Fred is about pooped out. He'll be dropping out any day now. McCain is an honorable man, but I like him better as a Senator, and don't want him for my president. He has a terrible temper; not that there's anything wrong with that. . . I have a vicious temper, but I'm not running for anything. My first instinct is to put a smart bomb through someone's bedroom window; this isn't the best way to conduct foreign policy.
No problem with Romney; I guess he's the economics guy. I can even stomach Giuliani. The thought of the She-Devil or Osama Bamalama creeping into 1600 Pennsylvania is too much to bear. I want Big Bill to keep exactly on course, and keep opening his fat mouth. He is the perfect representative of liberal ideology.
What I'm probably going to do is vote my conscience, and vote for the Libertarian. That party, too, has strayed far away from what they're supposed to stand for. I'm an old-school Libertarian; I believe in what Ayn Rand stood for, not what the party became after her death in 1985. One of these days, we will change things.
Until we do, we'll have the two-party system. Liberals who want to give away everything of value to America, and so-called conservatives who want to do the same thing, but only if they make a profit off the deal. When I was young and stupid and thought I had politics all figured out, I used to say there isn't a nickle's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.
The Democrats want to take your money and give it to people who don't deserve it, and the Republicans want to take your money and keep it.
That's what I said thirty years ago, and I swear, getting older isn't changing my mind. There is no one running for office today who fits my pistol, as John Wayne once said. I'm going back to my fringe group roots.
posted by Robert at 12:51 PM
6 Comments:
I share your dissatisfaction with our current crop of conservative "leaders". Perhaps we need to fall under the socialists' sway for four years in order to change the direction of the so-called conservative movement...
Ok ,so both parties want your money. There is a difference in the way they get it . The Democrats simply want to TAX it away from you . Real Conservatives want you to keep most of it so you can spend it on their products. Yes, many who call themselves Republicans now ,are right in lockstep with the tax and spend Dems.That doesn't mean we aren't going to have a viable candidate .We won't have one though ,if everyone starts giving up now ,in January. Isn't the election still in November?I haven't had a chance to vote in a Primary yet,have you? What good will it do to throw your vote away on a third party candidate? Perot was the reason Bill Clinton was able to ignore the Republicans after he was elected ,he simply kissed up the Perot voters and to heck with the rest of us.
"...my guy Fred is about pooped out. He'll be dropping out any day now.
I hope not; if he hangs in there, the nominee might actually be decided at the Republican Convention...
Barb: We'll be having our state primary on 5 February. I applied for an absentee ballot last week, and was given a choice between Republican or Democrat. That's it; no mention of third party or independent voter choice.
Obviously, I did not ask my local registrar for a Democritter ballot.
We'll see how this shakes out in November, but I can't recall such a close-run thing since I was a pup too young to vote.
I think it's become imperative that we take back Congress. That's where the real power lies, and Pelosi's bunch of do-nothings are one-shot ponies, if we're lucky.
As for the presidency, I want Obama (yes, I do know his real name) and the Clintons to keep clawing at each other in their savage liberal fashion. This internecine warfare is the best thing I've seen yet in the '08 campaign.
I suppose you have heard that Fred dropped out.So before whe had the choice of "OK to bad" ,now we have moved to a choice of "worse or worser".
I've been hearing BeerMe's idea from quite a few, it may be what we will have to do . But I really am afraid of the Clintonista's . Their core of disrespect for the American people ,has deepened and been coated with a Liberal coating of bitterness and anger,because no one has rushed out to greet them with open arms and "Welcome Back Where You Belong".I've heard a lot say that Bill would really be running things ,but was Bill really running things before? Hillary will have the Hammer ,this time(and the Sickle). Hillary has a knack for getting rid of people she really hates and I think she is just about there with Bill. I'm really afraid she could do things to this country in 4 or 8 years from which we would never be able to recover . Just to start,she would be appointing 2or more new Supreme Court Justices.
Well... Fred finally pooped out today. Weep, wail, moan! The only TRUE conservative in the bunch (except for Duncan Hunter) has thrown in the towel. Argghhhh! (Throwing self around on floor). God help us all.
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