In case you haven’t noticed, I have pretty much sworn off ever voting for a Republican again. George W. Bush and his friends have managed to screw up America more than I ever could have imagined possible.
This stands in direct contrast to a rule I once had that I could not vote a straight ticket—there had to be at least one non-Democrat that I voted for. When I voted in Colorado that was often one of the more obscure candidates, like a Prohibition Party candidate for the Board of Regents at the University of Colorado. In Indiana it meant voting Republican for Senator more often than not.
Which takes me back to Wyoming: although I lived there for six years, I never moved my residence there (bad move tax-wise), and I kept on voting in Colorado. That maneuver let me get my favorite license plate from Colorado, “GO WYO,” a combination impossible in Wyoming. That said I paid close attention to politics in the state and still, to this day, passively pay attention.
Generally speaking, I find Wyoming Republicans to be amongst the least offensive in the nation—save for Barbara Cubin and her penis cookies. However, I tended to support Wyoming Democrats like Mike Sullivan and Kathy Karpan because I tend to believe that Democrats, more often than not, will make the right decisions about policy issues that matter.
So it was with a great deal of amusement that today I realized that one of my teachers from Wyoming is running for elective office as a Democrat.
Now, with all due respect to the man and the office, he’s not qualified.
I mean, he’s a nice enough guy, but its safe to say that were I voting in Wyoming this November, I would not be voting for him unless his Republican opponent was a drooling idiot—which I suspect she is not.
I’m not posting the faux cowboy’s name here because I don’t want my blog to be found by google and the Right Wingers who might use it to promote voting for his opponent and all the Republican candidates. The fact remains that I would definitely vote to re-elect the Democratic Governor of Wyoming—if I voted in Wyoming.
Instead I get to try and vote Republican Mike Sodrel out of office in Indiana’s 9th Congressional District.
Wish me luck.
While your voting out Mike Sodrel, I’ll be trying to vote out that lame-brained, gun-toteing, friend of Bushies, John Hostetler.
Why does your Democratic friend’s website look like he pushed that horse on his banner out of plane?
I looked at both the website and thought to myself, “Gee, I could have done better on the design, and I’m a drooling idiot!”
I can’t believe you ever voted Republican, but then American politics continue to leave me completely baffled.
Hard to believe, but not all Republicans are bad and not all Democrats are good.
As recently as the early 90s there were some outstandign Republicans who I would gladly vote for… I think I would do it again under exceptional circumstances, but in 2004 I would not vote Republican for anything, even if they were the only person running for an office.
There are no Senate elections this year in my former U.S. state of residency (Illinois) and I lived in one of the U.S.’ “safest” Democratic House Districts. The seat is held by Rahm Emmanuel, who has a 100% pro-choice voting record and a 100% score on the most recent Human Rights Campaign scorecard. Emmanuel’s seat has been held by the Democrats for decades, most famously by Dan Rostenkowski, and even his downfall failed to shake Democratic loyalty in the district.
If I had lived in Illinois in 1998, I probably would have voted for the Republican candidate, George Ryan, who actually ran *to the left* of Democrat Glenn Poshard, a man opposed to both gay rights and legal access to abortion. While in office, Ryan invested heavily in public transit infrastructure, campaigned on behalf of a law to protect GLBT workers from discrimination (finally passed by the state House & Senate in 2004), and *effectively* ended capital punishment in Illinois.
I am miles away from thinking that all Democrats are good. Frankly if I lived in the states during an election I would probably, er, move to Canada. Sorry…
Somebody has to vote to save the soul of the country–might as well be Jerry and me!