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Not that it did much good, but just over the District line, ours stuck by his gunzzz and voted Nay.
Posted by: Brianp | October 03, 2008 at 01:52 PM
I'll write in my dog, Blackie, before I'll ever vote for my local representative,
Perhaps it is time for libertarians and other small government types to stop voting. Why give the thieves and their system any further appearance of legitimacy? Even those candidates one can vote for by holding one's nose - are not about to give up their system of organized robbery. It hasn't been too many elections ago that we would hear how less than half of those ciizens who are qualified would actually vote. Every election the media pundits would bemoan the fact that not enough were voting. We don't seem to hear that any more.
Government is the largest "growth industry" in the country. It has become obvious that no matter what limitations are in the US Constitution some means of getting around them will always be found. It doesn't matter who gets in office - the system is rigged... and always was. I say stop giving the bastards a mandate - not just some particular candidate - but any of them - the whole damned outfit.
sasob
Posted by: smartass sob | October 03, 2008 at 09:03 PM
I vote against every sitting judge. I vote against any spending or taxing bill. I've voted libertarian since 1972 and that is because I will not vote for someone who plans to stab me in the kidney to avoid voting for somebody who plans to stick a pair of scissors in my eye.
I don't care if it is throwing away my vote, my vote is trashed anyway. I'll vote for a seventy-five percenter like Barr long before I'll vote for a ten percenter like McCain. Or a negative percenter like Obama.
Posted by: TWC | October 03, 2008 at 09:18 PM
I've voted libertarian since 1972
Yup, so have I - or else I've not voted.
Just went and looked at the roll call to see how the congressman for my district voted on the theft/bailout bill today. I need to send Mr. Brady a note letting him know that he's fired as far as I'm concerned.
sasob
Posted by: smartass sob | October 03, 2008 at 10:02 PM
What? Only 700 billion?
Well yes - for now anyway. (They'll be back after the elections are over.)
sasob
Posted by: smartass sob | October 03, 2008 at 10:19 PM
I'm with Smartass sob. I am seriously thinking I probably won't be voting at all. Other than my girl Sarah, I'm just not motivated by anyone at all this year. I guess I could vote for McCain and hope for a funeral, but then that would be mean-spirited of me.
Posted by: Lone Chatelaine | October 04, 2008 at 11:14 AM
LC,
"Other than my girl Sarah, I'm just not motivated by anyone at all this year"
The MSM have been putting out that 'no one votes for vice president' (they hope ;-) but that's exactly what I'm doing - not hoping for a funeral, but a one term from McCain. In percentages, I'd put both Barr and McCain in the 40% region, 0%bama.
I've heard a few 'top commentators' commenting on the folksy, Fargo accent of Sarah Palin. Even Harold Ford (who I can tolerate usually) right after the debate mentioned her 'vernacular' (which he wrongly pronounced as - ver-na-kah-lar rather than ver-na-que-lar) - where he said he hadn't heard in a debate at this level. And Mike Murphy suggesting that not everyone would like it. BTW, Murphy, Scarborough and Buchanan are increasingly becoming the David Rodham Gergen and Kevin Phillips "Republican commentators" of our time.
But, here's another case of double standard where they (libs/msm) praise and get a kick out of Al Gore "talking tough" and cussing (well, he tried ;-) at a Pennsylvania Steel workers rally, and both of the Clintons talking like Jeremiah Wright or Rev. James Cleveland at Southern Baptist black churches. It's always 'clever' and 'connecting' when they do it but 'a vernacular that we haven't seen at this level' and possibly 'offputting' when it's Palin. Yet they (Clintons) are faking it, and for her, it's how she speaks.
KC
Posted by: Kent C | October 04, 2008 at 03:45 PM