A third of all Canadians think Canada will be part of the U.S. within 50 years. Or so I am told. But I can be easily deceived with a clever lie about Canada. I wonder how they would vote.
I know how the Mexicans would vote. They know who has their backs. It's not the GOP. Can someone explain to me why it is that legislators want to provide social security benefits to illegal aliens? I know that if I work in Mexico, I'm not going to draw a pension from the Mexican government. Who, exactly, are these guys' constituents? I know illegal immigration is too widespread to control, but is illegal immigrant voting that widespread?
At least John Kerry isn't voting to give illegals the right to recover retirement benefits. He doesn't vote on anything.
The New York Daily News reports that 26,000 residents of New York are registered to vote in both Florida and New York, and that 400-1,000 have used absentee ballots to vote twice in the same election. Of the 26,000, the breakdown by party, according to the Tampa Bay Tribune, is 68% Democrat, 12% Republican and 16% unstated. That might just be enough to successfully steal the Florida election this time.
If you google the word Waffles, the #2 hit will be the official website for the Kerry campaign. Two unofficial Kerry-themed sites also crack the first page.
Those Republicans who wore purple heart bandaids to the RNC to mock John Kerry are asshats who should have been taken outside and beaten until they looked like someone who had a freshly earned purple heart.
The latest polls are out, and Bush still has a bit of a lead. The potentially fake military records seem to be hurting his position. But all that matters are the red states and the blue states. For good updates on the red and blue status, check out www.electoral-vote.com.
It is wrong to vote against John Kerry just because his wife was a life-long Republican, but I won't judge you.
Everyone is judging Dick Cheney for saying that the choice of John Kerry may be a dangerous one for homeland security, but it's a legitimate argument, and it's a belief that is widespread, even in the Middle East. For example, Kerry is against imposing the death penalty on terrorists. He's pro-immigrant and vehemently against anything that even sniffs of racial profiling. So when five Saudi college students get on your plane without an inspection, don't worry. They're surely safe, because their random number didn't pop up. But we are going to check out the little old Hispanic lady. She might be carrying plastique.
I am tired as hell of the Vietnam shit. I admit that the Swift Boat ads that showed Kerry's testimony about war atrocities swayed me against him. I view that campaign as at least slightly traitorous, giving aid and comfort to the enemy as powerfully as Hanoi Jane. And I see it as potentially relevant to his worthiness as a president. But all this business about whether he deserved his purple hearts, and whether Bush was a screwup as a soldier (as if anyone ever doubted that Bush was irresponsible as a young adult) is so meaningless that it almost makes me want to withhold my vote from both candidates.
Not that my vote matters. My two weeks a year in Florida don't make me a Floridian, and California is Kerry country by double digits. California has about 22 million eligible voters. Even if just a third of them vote, I'd have to persuade about 900,000 of them to reject Kerry to make a difference.
Even if I was charming enough, I don't have that kind of time.
I do not watch political conventions, generally, but I saw a clip the other day of John Kerry's daughter speaking to the delegates about how her dad saved their pet hamster from drowning when its cage fell into the lake during a vacation. The rescue included mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which everyone seemed to enjoy. I sat there thinking, this means that John Kerry sucked face with a rodent. That is perfect. What better training is there for one whose ambition is to hold high political office?
For now, I'm pick Bush as my lesser of two evils. But if the top of the tickets were to somehow perish in a series of unfortunate farm machine accidents or something, leaving a race between Cheney and Edwards, I would actually see the election as a race between two excellent candidates. And I would vote for Edwards and feel good about it.
These are confusing times for conservative Republican trial attorneys.
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