🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MS-C.718850250.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes:
[...]
>The big winner was Perot.  He was fantastic.  I don't think he's going to be
>able to win the election, but you can't feel guilty about voting for Perot
>after tonight.  Whether the Bush-man or the blow-dried JFK-wannabie win, the
>next four years are going to be nasty.  A Perot voter will have the
>satisfaction of knowing it isn't his fault.

I was thinking of voting for Frank Zappa, or maybe writing myself in, gaining
the satisfaction without getting contaminated with Perot-taint.
My SO, when queried, said she was going to vote for Clinton, believing that
that was the best chance to get somebody friendlier to women on the
(not-so-)Supreme Court, which has, over the long term, far, far greater impact
than the activities of one presidential election/crapshoot winner.  A telling
argument IMO.  I may very well vote for Clinton for that reason.

Another argument in favor of "liberals" rather than "conservatives" running
the country is that they are more squeamish and less likely to implement
Draconian, Buchanan-like solutions to the problems they create, like the WOD.
I mean, as long as I have to pay taxes anyway,  I'd rather see the money
pissed away in boondoggles, makework programs, corruption and graft rather
than guns, law enforcement and boot camps.  Of course, most of the latter
*is* *also* the former, but that's beside the point.  The point is that
conservatives tend to have their shit together more than liberals do, and
if I *have* to be governed, I'd just as soon it were done by people who
*weren't* good at it.  Actually, one could regard the S&L scandal as the
price we social deviants all paid for not winding up in concentration camps
during the Reagan era -- attention being diverted to the financial
feeding-frenzy instead.  Lord help us all if we ever get non-corrupt people
in government.  There is absolutely no more insufferable type of human being
made than the incorruptable authoritarian!
-- 
kurt@grogatch.celestial.com (Kurt Cockrum)
 Nostalgic conservatives will soon be referring to the Bush Era as
 "those Halcion days of yesteryear".