Voting musings.

[spookyevilone]

10 more months until El Fucko is out of office. I'm desperately hoping Kucinich stays in the race, because I want to vote for him. If he ran with McKinney as his VP, I'd be in heaven.

I've always voted Democrat, because the candidates I've wanted to vote for have happened to be Democrat. When it comes to voting, I wind up not so much voting for someone as I do voting against someone else.

I will not vote for anyone who voted to authorize or reauthorize the Patriot Act(s). Both Clinton and Obama voted for it. Kucinich voted against it. His comment makes me smile - "Why did I vote against it [the Patriot Act]? Because I read it."

I will not vote for anyone who takes the 'civil union not marriage' track. "Separate but equal" is a fucking abomination and I do not want to live in a world where Brown v. Board of Education needs to be repeated for each different race, gender, creed, or sexual orientation. There's a reason it was originally known as a marriage contract - because that's what a marriage is; a contract between two people to combine households. What gender those two people are should not matter. Someday, when I rule the world, the number of people in a contract won't matter either, but for now, it's stuck at two. Unless the 'civil union' idiots are campaigning for all marriages to be redefined as 'civil unions' or 'spousal unions', then it goes right back to 'separate but equal' and earns my enmity. Won't vote for anyone that stupid. Obama continually takes this track, and it makes me throw up in my mouth a little to see a black man doing it. Dear Sir: If my forefathers hadn't thought separate but equal was a load of horseshit, you would not currently be able to vote, much less run for president, so pls to get the fuck out of pre-1954 mentality k thx.

I will not vote for anyone who tries to limit citizenship to this country, for anyone. I'm Native American. I have a very, very strong viewpoint on citizenship here in the United States. Citizenship shouldn't be based on job skills. Anyone who wants to become a citizen of the United States should: a) prove they can speak, read and write English well enough to be understood, b) be given a grace period of 60 days to find a job, c) not be allowed welfare or social services until they've become a tax paying member of this country and maintained that status for x-amount of time.

It leaves me few candidates. When you consider how much I hate the monkey poo-flinging tactics that blossom like corpseflowers from each camp, it leaves me even fewer. Kucinich is the only candidate I like. I disagree with him on a few points, but frankly, I can live without resentment in a country that doesn't have the death penalty.

Comments

[saravit.livejournal.com]

I have to check out Kucinich now.

What do you think of Ron Paul?

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

Let me sum it up:

1) For legislating and limiting abortions
2) Against stem cell research
3) Voted to ban gay adoptions, so even though he's supposedly for same-sex partnership, I see that as a political ploy due to that vote.
4) Voted against prohibiting drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge; i.e., voted for drilling
5) Voted against treating religions equally on tax breaks
6) Voted to build a fence along the Mexican Border

However, he did vote against the Patriot Act. I think he's ok, but there are too many issues where my politics and his diverge very strongly for me to ever vote for him. I also think more highly of him than I do Barak Obama, since at least Paul doesn't hide his opinions on political issues by vague speech or abstaining from votes. I at least know where Paul stands, and I can respect that even if I don't agree with his stance.

(and this time, posting from correct journal. Sorry - the other is my private one)

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

heh.. a friend just posted this.

[dixon-green.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's 51 weeks until Chimpy McIdiot is out of office. It's 10 months until we know who will be replacing him (barring election stealing shenanigans). I am not looking forward to the two month gap in which he and the rest of his tattered administration will go on a dedicated scorched earth campaign, leaving as much damage as they possibly can. I forsee more closet fires at the White House.

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

Restated: 10 months until I can cast a vote for his replacement. We have a deadpool over whether there'll be some other national crisis that makes him declare a state of emergency and forestall his removal from office.

[misanthrope-mom.livejournal.com]

Short term: I've gotta research whether the 5 or so measures on the ballot in Feb (I'm in Cali) are really what I think: "Oh, hey, them Injuns is gettin rich and we ain't gettin' none! Fuck that!"