A Vote for Obama (Or Against the GOP)

I've been trying to stay informed on the GOP race for Jackass for President. It's been both terribly amusing and terribly frightening all at the same time. The candidates are fucking clowns. Period. Try and explain how Herman Cain wasn't a fucking clown. Seriously. Try.  It seems like the GOP is really, really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time around. I'm not sure if that's because the bottom of the barrel is all they have left, or because they know they are likely to lose to Obama, and are holding a "good" candidate in reserve for 2016. I like to think it's the former, though, since that means the party is even closer to collapsing and reforming than I thought. And make no mistake – that is what will happen. They've been working too hard and too successfully at pushing out the moderates and ideologically impure, that what is left cannot hold the center together. It will fall in upon itself and something, hopefully saner, will rise from the corpse.

At the same time, as I said, it's been frightening. Have you been paying attention to what they've been saying? I don't mean the stupid shit like Romney classifying 90-95% of Americans as Middle Class (though that's problematic in its own way as an attempt to maintain the fiction in the minds of the populace that they aren't really poor). I mean things like Santorum's tirades against homosexuals and gay marriage. Newt talking about effectively doing away with child labor laws. Both of them not even bothering with dog whistles and just coming out and saying shit about the black communities. Romney saying that discussion about economic inequality should only be had behind closed doors (Know who gets behind those closed doors? Not the fucking people being crushed by economic inequality).


EDIT: Check what Newt has to say here - 
"I will issue an instruction on the opening day, first day I'm sworn in, I will issue an executive order to the national security apparatus that it will not enforce Boumediene and it will regard it as null and void because it is an absurd extension of the supreme court in to the commander in chief's (authority)."


Seriously, fuck that guy. 

I hate the feeling that there are fewer and fewer people who have a clue as to what America is supposed to be. Seems like more and more, people are trying to turn it into a state that, in another country, we'd lump up on the Axis of Evil. I tire of the narrative that it's bad when they do it to us, but perfectly fine, legal, and Gosh Darn American when we do it to them.

For years after 9/11, continuing to this day, the Right has been pushing the line that if you question them, you must hate America and Freedom. But the actual evidence tells us who really hates America, and who is really scared of a free populace. And those are the people the GOP is trying to front for Presidential Candidates.

Which brings me to the point of this whole stupid post.

Last election, I marked my vote for Obama/Biden. This coming election, I'm going to mark my vote for Obama/Biden again (not that it matters, since I live in the reddest state in the union. Really, it's so red you'd think it was the Soviet Union). Not because I figured Obama would be a great president (I did not), but because I figured the odds were really good that Obama/Biden would be a magnitude better than McCain/Palin. And I still believe that (I also think it's really cool that it was my lifetime when America was finally ready for a black president).

I didn't buy the hype that people tried to build about Obama being some kind of liberal Second Coming. I know a lot of liberals are up in arms and angry about his presidency because he didn't bring all their liberal dreams to life, but it was stupid of them to think he would. He was pretty clearly a centrist at best. As someone as noted, Obama is actually a great Conservative – if we're talking old-school conservative, before the party went insane. But he's pretty damned middle of the road and people need to accept that.

Because middle of the road is still way fucking better than veered off into a ditch with little Bobby flung out a window, which is what we'll get if a member of the current GOP gets the Oval Office.

Look at who they're fielding, and ask yourself, do you really want someone who hates America, hates Freedom, and hates your kids running this country?

I know I don't.

So once again, I'll be marking my vote for Obama/Biden, or, if you prefer, against whoever the GOP shits out on the stage.

You should do so too.

Unless you have the option of a write-in vote, in which case, Weird Al for President yo!