Every day I find another reason to be happy that we’ve moved (back) to Virginia, and now that it’s fall I find bonus reasons. The colors, the apple cider, the pumpkins…. yes, we had fall colors, cider, and pumpkins in Maryland, but not like this. And twice a day, as I go over the overpass, I can take a quick look out the side window and see a magnificent view that extends all the way to the mountains.
There’s one unlovely thing about Virginia this fall, however, and that’s the Senate race. Why can’t Allen and Webb just go out and fight a duel or something instead of this insane mudslinging? And why are they treating me like I’m stupid? Guys (for gentlemen you are not), would you quit with the hicker-than-thou pose?
Webb’s particularly annoying, since he carefully wipes the rouge off his neck as soon as the Rappahannock’s in the rear-view mirror. Up here in the D.C. burbs, he attacks Allen as being some kind of throwback, but in the southern counties he paints himself as a Real “Born Fightin'” Virginian (never mind that Allen’s an ex-governor — he was born in California!) And of course the major newspapers don’t call him on it. It’s disgusting.
I’ll never vote for Webb; his party’s made it clear they don’t want my vote, seeing as I’m one of those pro-life theocrat faithbot extremist types. But Allen’s campaign isn’t doing much for me either.
The only compelling reason I can think of to vote for Allen is the issue of judges. Is that a good enough reason to pull the lever for the guy?
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Hey! I found your blog by browsing the sidebars of other blogs. Sorry to hear about the election race there. I’m in school at Notre Dame, and there’s some crazy mudslinging going on here too. I can’t turn on the TV without seeing some commercial. I’m not used to it at all- either I’m oblivious or they don’t do this in Georgia (where I’m from).
And why are they treating me like I’m stupid?
Up here in NY, if you go by the TV ads, you have no idea what any candidate stands for, just that don’t like each other. I hate it as well.
Boy, do I understand what you are going through, politically. Well, sort of. Naturally my preference is for a Francisco Franco type to simply take over, but in the meanwhile we are stuck with this voting business.
The last two elections I did something that I had never done: a straight ticket. All GOP, all the way down. I can’t stand the Protestant Party, but those are the buttons I pushed, mainly because of the issue of judges and other life issues.
Now, in California, we have Governor Adolf von Kennedy showing the world that one can be a Republican while staying just as repugnant as the Dems on life issues, and I am afraid that this is the future of the GOP. Will I vote for Democrats? Nope. Never. Or at least not until they drop the Planned Barrenhood and Homosexualist agendas.
So, what to do? What to do?
Frankly, losing the House by one vote would be a great boon to the Republican Party, anyway, because it would give Nancy Pelosi an even bigger platform to either alienate the Dems’ hard left base or to alienate the middle. Also, having an opposition-led house would give the Republicans an excuse (oh, we couldn’t get anything done, because, you know, those Democrats who run the House!).
So, when 2008 comes, they will be able to point to Hillarity Clinton and say, “oh, think of the goofy stuff Pelosi says… do you really want that for President?” at the same time as saying “look, poor President Bush could not move our agenda one bit because of those bad Dems. You were warned, so now get with the program and vote GOP!”
The last two elections I did something that I had never done: a straight
ticket. All GOP, all the way down. I can’t stand the Protestant Party, but
those are the buttons I pushed, mainly because of the issue of judges and
other life issues.
I can realte to that.
In NY, like Arnold, we have a plethora of pro-choice republicans. I never know who to vote for.
Ugh. I’m in VA, and those ads are horrible. I can’t wait for the election to just be OVER.
I also hate the 100 million automated phone calls I get in a week, each one shilling for a canidate.