Undecided Voter?

[angus]

okay, I'll come out of that closet.  Some days I lean Bush, other days I lean against bush.  Some days I want whoever wins to win more decisively than last time, other days I want to see a 269-269 tie (a real treat, you could live a hundred years and never see that!).  I have a Sierra Club backpack with an big USA flag pin on it.  I've never owned a gun in my life but the thought that these authoritarian liberals want to restrict 2nd amendment rights makes me scared.  I like lynyrd skynyrd and Bob Marley songs equally.  Sometimes I drink hard liquor down at the Oak door with the rebel-flag waving crowd, and sometimes my woman and I sip gritty cote-du-rhone with my neighbor Phillipe, from Toulouse.  I don't ever want to see my country turn into nasty hate-filled continent that my 4 grandparents fled.  An undecided voter is an informed voter.  Free your minds.

Who took away my Ritlin?

[angus]

I had 7 people on my presidential ballot in MA in 2000.  I considered all of them to be serious candidates.  You should too.  I note that Republicans are generally more optimistic than Democrats.  Of course it's easy to be optimistic when one has a big bank account, a good job, excellent insurance benefits, a comfortable and well-appointed apartment, and six weeks per year paid vacation, as do I, or if one is filthy rich, as apparently are you, but let's try not to forget the less fortunate.  I do not support socialized medicine, but I do think US public school standards and US military capability should be second to none.  Sometimes, but not always, we must be willing to forego the big tax breaks in deference to other pressing needs.  I thought long and hard about it before becoming a republican, and managed to alienate just about everyone I know when I did, but I did so out of concern for this great nation.  The democrats are just too unyielding and easily led by fools and tricksters, and Declined-to-State doesn't give you any real input in the process.  I think Bush can win, but I would not underestimate Kerry.  You'll hear many stories about him over the next several months, some of which will be true, some will not, but Kerry is a worthy opponent for President Bush.  I say with conviction:  Let the best man win.

[angus]

But that you're not blinded towards one party, that's cool.

As you are now, I once was.  

[angus]

The media chewed him up last time, and I would bet that half the people who thought they voted for him didn't even have their votes counted.

word.  I especially like the way the gore team had Richard Daley, of all people, to scurry out of his hole and head down to Florida.

[angus]

You mention that Bush is 'an unmitigated disaster' and that you don't like his style.  Many don't, many do.  I don't much give a goddamned one way or another.  I was more curious about your position on Kerry.  It's true that he voted for Operation Iraqi Freedom, but against the later vote on 87b funding.  Whatever.  We're stuck now.  What's the plan, boss?

And that third party thing is a bitch.  You'll have maybe seven candidates.  Walter Brown has been nominated by the Socialist Party.  Howard Phillips will be Constitutionalist Party nominee.  Ralph Nader may be on the ballot on your state.  Bush and Kerry.  Probably a libertarian and a green.  Maybe a commie.  Maybe a reform party guy.  Anyone you know have a plan for Iraq?  Or Social Security?

[angus]

okay dad.