Undecided Voters
Published by Sean October 15th, 2008 in Election 2008Everyone is talking about the undecided voter. As I write this, I’m watching a line graph on CNN track the impressions of “uncommitted Ohio voters.”
I’m pretty sure my father has already made this point, but I’ll reiterate: if you don’t know who you’re going to vote for by now, you don’t possess enough philosophical sophistication to justify participation in the democratic process.
I cite Family Guy to make my point:
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Loved the “Family Guy” clip. The dog is the brains of the outfit!
Go ahead and cast your vote like a good American, but Obama won the election several weeks ago when Republicans voted to kill the first bailout plan. An incumbent running for reelection during a recession CANNOT win (witness Dubyah’s father). The party in the White House PROBABLY won’t keep it during a recession.
In the final analysis, Republicans will suffer a staggering loss next month because they DON’T DESERVE to win. They were asleep at the switch while mortgage lender greedheads raped the financial system. Republican “purists” pontificated about the evils of allowing the government to assume a stake in the banking houses of America while the rest of the country watched their pensions, savings, mortgages and credit slide off the table. Most Americans (and I reluctantly count myself among them), when confronted by a disaster of the sort we are witnessing today, will throw “hallowed principle” aside and vote for rescue.
The bailout plan is PUTRID but a national disaster requires national action. Republicans like to talk about smaller government but there has never been a year of Republican power when government actually GOT smaller. And don’t talk to me of Libertarians — their foreign policy positions render them unfit for governance.
We must now choose between more of the same ineptitude (McCain), even worse policy (Obama), idiot Libertarian purists (Barr) or Green morons (Nader, Cynthia McKinney or whoever is presiding over the loonies of the far left).
Undecided voters are certainly dunderheads, but I can feel a sort of sympathy for their plight. On 11-4 I will vote for a Democrat for the first time in my life and I’ve been voting since 1970. Not for Obama, but for the Democrat running against my Republican Representative who voted to preserve his dogma at the cost of America’s prosperity — screw him!!
Young people may be excused for believing that the future will be more or less like the past and present, but let me tell you that THIS IS DIFFERENT!! All your post-graduate dreams of gainful employment are at risk! Conservatives, Libertarians, Republicans and other idiots blame FDR for expanding government but they forget that he saved capitalism in the process. Not a pure, unadulterated, fit-for-dipping-in-bronze capitalism, but a free-market system nonetheless.
Countrywide Mortgage, almost all by itself, brought the world to this collapse. It could only happen because regulators winked and grinned at current illusions of prosperity and ignored dire predictions of disaster for the future. Capitalists have shown that they cannot be trusted with the stewardship of a nation’s economy and Socialists have demonstrated likewise. If we must have government oversight of the economy (and we must), then put people at the nexuses who can see more than two weeks into the future.
To quote Shakespeare, “A plague a’ both your houses!”