For what it’s worth, I could not bring myself to vote for Bush or Gore in the first-term election. They both seemed too dim to be President, and I was too disgusted. I also thought (wrongly) that with both of those pretending so hard to be moderate, that either one would think they had a "moderate" mandate. Boy was I wrong. I did vote the second time around, for Kerry, for the specific reason that truth in government is a neccessary basis for government, and that lies leading to the war should be accepted grounds for disqualification. I was dissapointed by the close finish, but this time around I was less surprised when a near-even split was taken (again) as a crazy arch-conservative mandate!
"Did not you clowns vote for this chap?"
For what it’s worth, I could not bring myself to vote for Bush or Gore in the first-term election. They both seemed too dim to be President, and I was too disgusted. I also thought (wrongly) that with both of those pretending so hard to be moderate, that either one would think they had a "moderate" mandate. Boy was I wrong. I did vote the second time around, for Kerry, for the specific reason that truth in government is a neccessary basis for government, and that lies leading to the war should be accepted grounds for disqualification. I was dissapointed by the close finish, but this time around I was less surprised when a near-even split was taken (again) as a crazy arch-conservative mandate!