I know, I know.
"If you don't vote [insert party of your choice here], then you're voting for [insert other party here], and that's just wrong!"
"They're all crackpots and loons, with no realistic platform."
"You're wasting your vote when you vote for a candidate that's certain to lose."
Yeah, yeah, heard it all before.
But considering the choices I'm hearing for 2008, and the past performance of the last few "real" candidates, both winners and losers, I'm pretty much convinced that a vote for any candidate is a wasted one.
What does it say about our electoral process that after months of searching, campaigning, and politicking, the best two people we can come up with to lead our nation are George Bush and John Kerry?
Nothing good, that's for certain.
Pardon my cynicism, but the leaders of our two major parties have been behaving like two spoiled children stuck in the back of a car on a 12 hour drive going home after Christmas, and I'd dearly love to pull the car over, get in the back seat, and blister the bottoms of both spoiled brats.
Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Posted by Rich at January 17, 2006 8:58 AM | TrackBackAmen. I was trying to say the same sort of thing on my site the other day, but the "spanking" anology really just, um, hit the mark.
Posted by: Barry on January 17, 2006 10:49 AMWe'll probably never know what sort of president Kerry would be but we do know what an embarassment George W. Bush is.
The third-party candidate is what first gave us this group of criminals in the White House. Thanks Ralph.