politics: clarification

[dragonlady7]

My "when in doubt, vote 'em out!" philosophy of filling out absentee ballots did not extend to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY.
I don't particularly care for him.
We just got a glossy election brochure from him. "Sen. Charles Schumer: Making College Tuition Tax-Deductible For The First Time." ("Hey," Dave said, perking up as he realized that applies to him, as he's currently sending himself through the last three semesters of his college degree using money saved from his three years of work in the real world. He has $892 [I made that up but it's probably not far off] left to get him through the next six months. I think I'll be paying the rent...)
The glossy brochure consisted of photos of Good Old Chuck chatting up college chicks. No, I'm serious. There was one boy in the pictures and he was off to the side holding books to his chest looking exceedingly sexually ambiguous (poor fellow). Interestingly, in all the photos, the 19-year-old, attractive women had their heads turned so that their faces were not visible, as they gazed adoringly at the very polished and skeevy Chuck.


But.

I do not want the Republicans to control the Senate.

So I could not in conscience vote for his opponent, a Republican.

So there you have it: I am supporting incumbents who are most likely corrupt and at worst, like photos of themselves with alarmingly young women. OH WELL. It's all in the name of party politics. Yechh.

Comments

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

"I do not want the Republicans to control the Senate.

So I could not in conscience vote for his opponent, a Republican."

Yep. That's it in a nutshell. Voting straight D this year, if if they're idiots.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Yup.

Oh, for a real choice, but the process is now constructed such that anyone worthy of the position will never get far enough to become a choice for most of us. Bleah. Anyone crazy enough to want it anyway is too crazy to have it.

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

I understand the partisan considerations. But that's the reason why my carefully thought-out and well-researched vote will never matter in the state of Texas. Except on local issues, of course, which are much more fun anyway. Am bleghed about national politics at the moment. I detest them all. ;)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I am thoroughly disgruntled with the electoral system. So New York is a blue state. So it doesn't matter who I vote for. (I voted for Gore and it didn't matter either.)

But the way I see it, people are talking crazy talk about swing states, and I'll be damned if I neglect to cast my vote because it doesn't matter, and wake up and NY has become a red state because all my fellows felt the same way. I would absolutely die.

As it is, it may not matter, but at least I did my god-damned duty, so the poor force-fed suffragettes who underwent beatings and torture to get the vote don't gang up on me in the afterlife.
Dammit.


I wonder how many others are like me-- I hate the Democrats, but cannot stand the conservatives of any stripe who think themselves duty-bound to codify their minority morality into law that we all must obey. Ugh! Just leave me alone! But leaving them alone doesn't make them leave you alone. So I must support the Democrats because I have no choice and at least they'll let me have access to birth control.