Decisions, Decisions…
Posted by Brian on February 4, 2008
Are you voting? Not everyone is you know, but as my sister said to me the other day, I would like the right to complain, so I’m voting. Super Tuesday here I come.
Primaries are usually a different animal than general elections and for most of us we have better choices. Think about it. The primaries will be the one time when you have several candidates who you may like somewhat or quite a bit. Whereas in the general election, we tend to choose between one candidate we like somewhat and another we can hardly stand.
On Tuesday, I’ll have choices. As you can imagine, me being an evangelical type of guy and all, I tend to vote conservative. There’s Romney, the Mormon guy who will -despite what I may think of Mormonism- generally support and do things in office that I would agree with. However, I don’t agree with his immigration ideas and get the sneaking suspicion that he happened upon these ideas because the polls told him conservatives would flock to his side.
*Note to conservative candidates… Fix the leaky border and make sure we know who comes across and who leaves so drugs and nuclear devices can’t be transported so easily. That’s really all we want. After that, please be kind and humane to the people who came across the border in the past. Can we blame them for wanting to be inside the greatest country in the world? C’mon get real.
Then of course, there’s Mike Huckabee, a guy I’m supposed to like because he’s evangelical like me. Well, I’ve got news. I love Mike because he wants to abolish the IRS, not because he used to be a Baptist minister. For one thing, I don’t agree with everything the Baptists believe and secondly, I’m not voting to put Mike in a ministry, but a job. A real job with duties and public relation duties and necessary management skills and everything.
Not every evangelical I know would make a good President of the United States. Sure they’re saved, but do I want them figuring out the housing crisis? Maybe not. So Mike… you ain’t getting my vote just because man. Having said that, the whole IRS position of yours does help you in my opinion. A world with no IRS?? That’s like dreaming of Never, Never land. You are indeed my brother….
And then there’s John McCain, and I love how the same conservative pundits who have claimed for years that their listeners are not sheep, are today going ballistic because we listeners aren’t going to vote like they told us to. Ann Coulter gonna vote for Hillary if McCain wins?
Please. What’s wrong with you people? McCain is the bad guy because he wants something more akin to “Amnesty” (which Reagan did by the way), and stymied Bush several times. Last I checked, McCain would do more on the immigration thing than Bush ever did, supports the Bush tax cuts now, and if Romney gets a pass on his previous liberal leanings, why doesn’t McCain get to change his mind, too?
I hate politics. Well, that’s not exactly true. I’m fascinated and intrigued by it. Sometimes I just get annoyed by the demagoguery.
No I really don’t know what that means either, but it was fun to type.
Anyway, look, I’ve got real stuff to do.
There is a basketball game to announce tonight, a couple of guys are talking about getting baptized, and God answered my prayer a couple of days ago and my daughter’s cat was found. I’m not a cat person. I’m a daughter person.
I’d rather not have a health care system that looks like Canada, but I do love the one proposed by McCain, and the one in use in Romney’s State of Massachusetts, and of course I love what Huckabee has done with the IRS. I definitely want the government to quit allowing babies to be killed for profit and for convenience sake, and I would like the poor to be helped without being enslaved. In short, I have opinions and decisions to make.
Do I know who I’m voting for? Nope. But I am going to pray about it because win or lose…
I want to be able to complain later.
