Is because it's election day.
Always a miserable day overall, since election day always starts a ton of unnecessary last-minute fires around the office. You'd think we could avoid getting caught by surprise by such things, since, you know, we all pretty much know when elections happen. It's a train wreck.
Anyway, I did my usual sweep-in-at-the-end-of-the-day voting, eBay Sniper style. I also continued my recent practice of voting against my party affiliation. I enjoy the stealth factor. Plus, the gutless monkey who used Terri Shiavo as a campaign platform, brought a miscarried fetus home from the hospital for his (living) kids to cuddle, and actually lives in Virginia, NOT Pennsylvania wasted a few of his dollars sending his robo-calls to me.
So here's hoping that one turns out the way everyone expects.
I have kind of a thing about this, because, in my younger days, I did some minor league campaigning for guys like him. I fell for the popular rhetoric of the time that those guys were the only "good" team out there. And I always liked their fiscal attitude. Back then, nobody had yet sprung the issue of same-sex marriage, we weren't in a war (at least, none that anybody cared about), the other guys were doing all the tax hikes, and there wasn't as much of a fuss about religious rights. As time wore on, these things and more kinda cropped up, and I found myself on the outside of the party I had always believed in.
Sometime in college, I realized that, as an atheist, I'm never going to be adequately represented by any party. Since then, I've been a lesser-of-two-evils kind of voter.
And I'll almost always vote against an incumbant, because the term "career politician" just disgusts me. I'd put a ten-year-cap on all elected positions, instantly. Because these people have too much power, too much money, and too few checks on their activities.
No matter what party you prefer, they're all scumbags. I hate how America has sports-ified politics.
What would happen if we outlawed the concept of a political party and forced everybody to run for office without the misleading shorthand of "Republican" or "Democrat"?
