My vote went to…
(image from thepensblog.com)
I’m not kidding. I wrote in Gary Roberts. I make it a point to keep political talk off of here unless it really chaps my ass and yesterday I finally had enough. I would have had a pic of my ballot but the person working warned me against doing so a couple times. He musta been a Sens fan.
Before you get all huffy let me explain why I did what I did. As a registered democrat my options suck and blow all at the same time. I can’t stomach Hil-dawg or Obama. At first it was a personal preference. Hillary has always been on my jagoff list. She’s smug, elitist and thinks her shit doesn’t stink. I’ve never seen a more arrogant person in politics… until I saw Obama. He always came across to me as a cocky snob who thought he knew everything about everything and you’re a fool for not agreeing. Personal feelings aside I looked at where they stand on issues and quite honestly, they’re pretty damn identical. What was I to do?
I studied their websites, listened to the debates and after not being able to find a favorite decided to ask people I knew who they were voting for. What I found was a disgusting display of loyalty. It one thing to support your candidate, I’m all for it, but people were psycho obsessed. I received email forwards that are flat out lies about both candidates and when I called the senders on it with proof from online it was met with “who cares. you shouldn’t vote for them”. OK, so we’re in the business of spreading lies.
Along came the supporters who were over the top obsessed. I was bombarded with IM’s from both groups with links to tabloid worthy news. Even when I said to stop they continued spamming me which is why, after reading this, they’ll now realize I have them blocked. I would go as far as to say that these followers would kill if they knew it would be preventing a vote for the other candidate.
I was more irritated than motivated so I had to ask myself “Who is the lesser of 2 evils?”. My wife told me why she was voting for her candidate and I was considering joining her. Until I saw the following story on CNN.
Crazy bitch Nora Ephron wrote about how if you’re a white male (hey that’s me) and you vote for Clinton you’re a racist. If you vote for Obama, you’re a sexist. (link to the whole story). That’s right. Check out the link from the story. Either way I had enough. I was fed up with politics as a whole. Fuck’m eh? This was yet another example of why I’m done with everyone being so freakin extreme. Know why i didn’t vote for your candidate? Because YOU made me.
This was my vote and it was not wasted. It was spent on who I thought deserved it. The point finally came where I couldn’t justify giving either person my vote. Just because it didn’t go the way you wanted doesn’t make it any more right or wrong. I did research my votes for the local races so I wasn’t completely irritated. Gary Roberts would make a damn fine president. Well, if he wasn’t Canadian already.
Now if Sorgatron was on the ballot it would be a different story. 
