Presidents and Assholes

Eeds has to report on lots of the KS political races next Tuesday. I think she is less than thrilled.

Still, today there were two pretty good articles/commentaries on how things are shaping up for the Elephants and the Jackasses.

This story is about the Kansas races specifically, and discusses how the voters are moving away from the Republican party to embrace Democratic candidates (who used to be Republicans).

This story is about how the party in the White House always loses seats in Congress in the midterm elections, and that even if the Democrats grab the number of seats that they are talking about, their gains are still going to be below the historical average losses (it is a Coulter piece, so skip the first couple of bullshit paragraphs and look only at the mathmatical discussion).

Here is the way I see it: Republicans are losing voters because the Republican party is running so far to the ultra-conservative, super-religious, "Michael J. Fox Got Parkinsons Because He Is Pro-Choice" side of things that moderate conservatives like me are finally saying "fuck you, you ignorant fucking pricks." The problem, is that following that big "fuck you", we are left with the choice of (1) voting for a . . . shudder . . . fucking liberal Democrat, (2) throwing our vote away on an Independent, or (3) not voting (except in the very few cases where there is an actual moderate Republican or Democrat running). Given my near total disenfranchisement and disappointment with our elected leaders, I'm leaning toward the last choice.

Everyone knows that all real change is made by whoever has the most money and the biggest guns anyway.