Who Should Get Your Vote?

Polls this week show W with an approval rating of 33%. At the same time the approval rating for the Democratic Congress is 29%. What does this mean when we are turning the corner into a presidential election year?

Who do you vote for when you don’t approve of anybody? If you haven’t been there before, welcome to my constant quandary. It’s been years since I voted for anyone other than the lesser of two evils, (I did vote eagerly for Bill Clinton, but he was the first I was in any way excited about since Bobby Kennedy. I was old enough, but not smart enough to vote for Jack!) but this year is a oner.

Talk about evils – I’ve been fed up with the Republican party since Richard Nixon headed up a band of burglars and Ronald Reagan raided Social Security to fund his illegal wars, but I never thought I would see true, deep-seated, no-holds-barred evil in the White House under any party until I saw what BushCo came in to do and did.

At this point the only thing I’m sure of is that the Republican party needs to be thrown out of the Whitehouse.

Well, not really. Here are a couple of other things I’m sure of:

1. Anybody who continues to support this war at this point ought to be thrown out of Washington, D.C. altogether.
2. No candidate who will not state that torture and extraordinary rendition have been occurring and must be stopped should receive a single vote from any American of conscience.
3. No candidate who holds that Iran could reasonably be attacked during his or her first term in office should be elected to any office.
4. No candidate who fails to express a desire to reinstate liberties through repeal or revision of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, or any of the other freedom restrictive legislation passed during this administration should be elected.
5. It would be preferable for neither a party-bound Democrat nor a hard-line Republican to be elected to the presidency. (But they will.)
6. The best reasonably possible outcome for the next election would be for a Democrat to be elected president and a slight majority of Democrats to hold the Congress.

And finally, one last point that is absolutely true - No matter what we want from the next election, we won’t get it.

That is the way it always has been and always will be. There is no perfect form of government save a benevolent dictatorship under a Ghandi or Schweitzer, so no matter what the next election brings, we will have to do our best to get along with it. And I, no doubt, will still find plenty to gripe about!


Be the change you wish to see in the world. -- M. K. Gandhi

Individually we have little voice. Collectively we cannot be ignored.
But in silence we surrender our power. Yours in Peace -- BR

The reason for going was to keep the crude flowing and raise a false flag abroad. – from a poem by Jack Evans titled 3500 Souls - http://www.myspace.com/paralegal_eagle