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May 17, 2006
Vote yes! (Or stay in your hot tub!)
I know this is just a throwaway post, but I have to comment briefly on something I just read -- in BOLD TYPE, because it's Jim Geraghty's bottom line -- at NRO's TKS: Frustrated with the GOP as a whole? Then support the guys you do like.(Via Glenn Reynolds.) Uh, OK. I just voted yesterday, in the so-called Republican Primary, uh, "election." As to the "guys I do like," where was my "choice"? My only choice was to vote for the candidate, or write in a candidate (I guess that's an invitation for satire) or not vote. It was a classic vote "YES" or vote "NO" ballot, which might as well be called a Stalinist ballot. There were no choices. Santorum (Senate), Swann (Governor), Matthews (Lt. Governor), Gerlach (Congress) all ran unopposed, while there were 23 choices for 23 slots on the Republican State Committee. I wasted my time. Quite literally. Later in the column, however, Geraghty does advise that "The real fight on so many of these issues is in the Republican Presidential Primary." Maybe. But by the time the presidential primary election rolls around to Pennsylvania, these things are usually done deals. Forgive my cynicism, and my lack of enthusiasm, but the last time there was a real "choice" on the ballot, it was between "RINO" Arlen Specter, and "real conservative" Pat Toomey. Here's what I said after I actually bothered to vote: . . .while I don't agree with Specter all the time, I agree with Toomey even less of the time. I have drifted from party to party because I can't stand moral ideologues.To homeless libertarian RINOs like me("Goldwater liberal" is less of a mouthful and more accurate), Geraghty's Toomeyesque advice is hardly reassuring: . . .if you live in a state or district where there is a conservative vs. moderate or liberal fight within a GOP primary, then you ought to be putting your effort where your mouth is.Where it comes to "real" choices like Toomey versus Specter, my mouth is about as worthless as my money. All things considered, my hot tub in California is looking pretty good. (Well, it's gone but not forgotten. . .) AFTERTHOUGHT: Am I wrong to despise politics? Am I alone? posted by Eric on 05.17.06 at 07:37 AM |
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