Candidates
had intended to be quite witty and intelligent this morning, to make up for my long weekend of silence here (been busy!). However, I’m pretty groggy and worn out, and also my sinuses are packed full, and I’ve pulled most of the muscles in my back and legs crawling around the restaurant doing health code cleaning. So, yeah. Not so much with the witty and so forth.
I’m a bit concerned with my Google news page, because there’s no news on it for me to bitch about. I haven’t been paying a lot of attention, but I’m reasonably sure we’re still at war, and it seems like that should get a mention. Let’s see . . . we’ve got Senator Joe Lieberman endorsing McCain, Hillary Clinton isn’t worried about Obama (at least, that’s what Faux News claims she told them), and Ron Paul’s campaign raising kazillions by staging a Boston Tea Party. (It’s a shame that Ron Paul’s a bit nutty. I like his style. If he wasn’t a pro-life isolationist, I’d consider voting for him.)
Apparently, the only thing Americans are worried about currently is which candidate has more money, and who hates who. We’ve turned into a fucking soap opera society. It’s disgusting.
Which leads me to speak about the candidates, since that’s apparently what’s important. At this moment, I’m still voting for Colbert, because there isn’t a damn other thing to vote for. Seriously. This country is in desperate need of a leader, and there isn’t one running. Let’s take a look at the Democratic side. We’ve got Hillary Clinton — didn’t like her much when she was the President’s wife, wasn’t impressed with her as a senator, and I’m damned if I’ll vote for someone simply because they have the same kind of genitalia as I do. She was a pandering cow when she was a president’s wife — and I’ve got no respect for a woman who puts up with her husband running around on her without saying a word, smacks of allowing it so’s not to rock the boat and ruin her chances of being president, herself. She’s too calculating, and she acts like she’s just saying what she thinks we want to hear. Fuck that bitch. Obama talks a good game, but that’s about all I see him doing, is talking. Try leading, and get back to me. John Edwards? Smirky, used-car-saleman-looking tort lawyer. Fuck him too. And the so-called “dark-horses” — none of them have a snowball’s chance in hell, so there’s no point in considering them. Although I like Gravel’s speeches. Guy acts like he might have a set of balls.
On the Republican side of the game, we’ve got Mitt Romney, the dog-abusing Mormon who looks just too damn slick for my tastes, let alone his politics. I’d like to say that I don’t care that he’s a Mormon, but I do, because I know just a bit about Mormonism, and it isn’t a religion, it’s a pyramid scheme. It’s as bad as Scientology, and I’m not voting for one of those, either. There’s John McCain, who was replaced by a pod person a few years ago, and is now doing nothing but pandering to the neo-con Christian right. He can piss off, too. I used to respect the guy, but lost every last drop of that the minute I saw him shilling for Bush at the Republican convention. Fred Thompson? Yeah, because voting in an actor worked so well for us last time. Rudy Guilianni? Please. The only thing he ever did right was to look calm in front of the cameras during 9/11. And the same thing goes for the Republican dark horses as did the Democratic wanna-bes.
So who does that leave us? We’re left with hoping that Gore suddenly sees the light and runs again, because of all the people I’ve seen, Gore is the only one who actually seems like he might have what it takes to turn this country around and put us back on course. He isn’t running, though, and you can try that “Draft Gore” crap all you like — it isn’t going to get you anywhere.
We need a real leader . . . someone forthright and honest, with a great big set of swinging balls, and no hooks in them from special interests, a decent, human, humane person with a few spare brains and a decided lack of bullshit, and there is no such person running. Male, female, black, white, purple, religious, atheist . . . we got nothing. And I’m too young to run, so you lot are S.O.L., it seems like.
I hold no hope for the next four years. I hope these folks prove me wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.
(Photo credit: ABC News.)
