Do you "regret" voting for someone?

[dazzleman]

I don't think I regret voting for somebody who won.

Even when some people I have voted for who have won have not lived up to my expectations, I still think they were better than the alternative.

[dazzleman]

Yes.  Big time.  Twice.

Who?

[dazzleman]

Yes.  Big time.  Twice.

Who?

Bush.  It wasn't until a few months after the last election that I was finally willing to face reality.

Whoever I vote for wins.  I need to be more responsible.

I remember now that you were a lukewarm Bush supporter last year.  I also voted for Bush twice but I don't regret it, though I'm a bit disappointed with the way things are going right now.  But I still think the alternative would be worse.

What is the reality that you have faced, that you didn't see before?

[dazzleman]

Jimmy Carter 1976.

It was the first time I was old enough to vote. A truly sad chapter in my life.

Luckily, I was saved from the indignity of voting for Carter in 1976 by the fact that I was too young to vote.  I'm not sure whom I would have voted for that year, but I would surely have regretted it if I had voted for the arrogant, naive, self-righteous and incompetent old scold.

By 1980, when I voted for the first time, we had been through four years of Carter, and I couldn't wait to vote against him.  That started me on a Republican voting streak that continues to this day.

[dazzleman]

"Juveniles commiting crimes?  I'll have those juvenile delinquents out there in chain gangs, bustin' up rocks.  Chain 'em up together like animals.  Teach 'em some respect for authority.  Or my name ain't Clayton Williams!"

Actually, for serious or violent juvenile criminals who are hardened and unresponsive to softer measures, that sounds good to me.