Nader, Barr siphon votes from Obama and McCain
July 15th, 2008So it goes again. Nader and Barr with their enormous egos are trying to give the American people more than two choices. I say that’s a load of bull. They shouldn’t be allowed to run. We shouldn’t get more than two choices for President. In fact, we shouldn’t get two choices for anything.
You should drink either Bud or Coors Light. None of this microbrew shit. And I don’t even want to hear anything about Miller or foreign beer. It’s Bud or Coors Light. Those are your choices. People who brew their own beer should be arrested and put in jail.
There should only be two religions - Lutheran and Sunni Muslim. Anything else is un-American. In fact, anyone else is an extremist and we all know that extremism leads to terrorism, right? Catholics? Extremists. Baptists? Extremists. Shi’ites? Extremists. Hindus? Extremists. Agnostics? Extremists. Any questions? Good. I’m tired of people thinking they want more than two choices.
You get two choices for cars too - Honda Accord, or Ford F-150. Anyone who has anything other than those two cars, I seriously question their patriotism.
Two choices for sexual orientation. You’re either straight, or you’re gay. Bisexuality should NOT be tolerated. You do one, or the other. You do not do either. You do not fool around. You do not experiment. You don’t write stupid songs like “I kissed a girl and I liked it.” She started off straight, so she should end straight, and should have always remained straight. Anyone who ever had a bisexual thought is probably a cop killer.
Two choices, folks. Two. Not three. Not four. Two. Two is what you get. It’s Obama, or McCain. You’re either a Democrat, or a Republican. No other choices. You must decide one or the other. Anyone who votes for someone else is an extremist.
Nice rant!
I get really sick of being told that I’m wasting my vote if I don’t vote Rep or Dem!
As a straight, Lutheran driver of an F-150, I thought I was safe….until I read about the BEER. I don’t like beer. Can I stay out of jail if I drink rum and coke?
Neither… Bud gives me a headache and, well, Coors… I’m going with Samuel Smith (no, not Samuel Adams) or a good pint of Watneys
In the Presidential race, I might abstain…
Tshsmom - Hmm…
I’ll have to ask a Republicrat-Nazi. They don’t like people who think for themselves, so I’m guessing no.
Bo - Satire aside, if Obama and McCain were the only two choices, I’d write in “None of the Above.”
I guess I’m an extremist because I’m voting Green. I’m a radical! I go for foreign beers and foreign wines. And I love that Thai food.
But i though you were happy with neither of them and to have two more choices should be merry making matter for you (provided those two new candidates are no ‘git’ like the famous twin in HP puts).
Kate - Thai food rules. They’re also some of my favorite peoples.
Tchoden - Satire, my Bhutanese friend. It’s when you exaggerate the other direction to make the opposing camp look stupid, and of course to those who appreciate satire, it’s funny.
haha… i do feel very thick in my head now..
A lot of the voters barely know the issues their candidate stands for, so adding another candidate to the mix would just blow their minds. Getting elected is all about your media image, and third-party candidates are seen as wackos unfit to run the country. It’s a sad state of affairs, but that’s the way it is. The best candidate by far, Ron Paul, had as much of a chance of winning as an A-rab winning an Iditarod.
Thanks for pointing that out. I get tired of hearing the same shit every election cycle. I am ignoring everyone and voting my conscience. Obama wins Massachusetts hands down anyway, and I’m not voting Republican. So there really is no logic that can dissuade me from voting for an independent. I’m also ignoring negativity and attacks, and will focus only on the issues and what a candidate proposes to actually do.
This little black duck likes to throw a spanner in the works wherever possible. Ergo, I vote for whoever ELSE is running (besides Reps or their twins, the Dems). That usually means I vote the STRAIGHT libertarian ticket (here in Texas we have such a thing, in some of the elections anyway).
However, if there is no Libertarian on the ticket, I’ll vote for WHOEVER else is runing (unless they are running under the dog-or-kid-torturer ticket, then I just get out my hunting rifle…)
Cheers! And thanks for the rant, it made my day!
Your Texas Wallflower.
clearly i am doomed. i am a non-affiliated voter who attends a baptist church and drives a minivan. oh, and i don’t like beer either so i drink hard cider. doomed i tell ya. lock me up and throw away the key.
Oh no! Can’t have that satire, either. Obama won’t like it. You could go to jail, y’know!
hahaha. very funny. don’ know who you or your readers are siding with, but for me non-american, it’ Obama all the way and I shouldn’t even care.
Anyhow, wouldn’t life be so much easier if there was only two choices everytime?
Well happy Weekend Zombie.
Today i found out who’s the spy to our BB, now i feel like strangling her or even better, put her in a sac and throw her to the river *evil laughter*
So having my Chrysler Sebring is wrong?? LOL.. Only picking. We had a ford once before we even thought about having a brand new car. Or my Pontiac?? LOL.. But I know what you mean.
hmmmm
Motorcycle riding, libertarian, excon,veteran, non drinking, Mormon. Gads, I should be taken out and shot……
I have long since come to recognize how screwed up I am since I generally piss off the hardcore Bible thumpers and atheists. As well as the tree huggers and the corporate suck-ups out to rape the planet. I have this damn problem staying on any reservation whether it be conservative or liberal although right now I’m far more in the liberal orbit right now.
hey, Zombie—
I have another blogger friend. She sometimes talks like you and even writes the same kind of disclaimer: “If you don’t like it, touch sheet!”
-r
As Suanie Sees It :: http://www.suanie.net/2008/07/21/11-songs-that-make-me-want-to-slit-my-wrist/
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Ron Paul was probably the best republican candidate… possibly the best overall candidate.
From a foreign perspective though, Obama seems OK.
Lately what’s pissing the wallflower off are ‘pseudo’ Libertarians. You know what I mean:
Those folks that call themselves Libertarians, but what they really want is a free ride. They want someone ELSE to clean the toilets (they WANT toilets, they WANT public transportation, they WANT the ‘freedom’ to ride around on their goddamned motorcycles (yes, GODDAMNED, even though I am an atheist, consistency has never been part of the human psyche) without helmets, passing on the right, in excess of 80 mph.
Yeah, it just happened again this morning. I nearly crushed one of the bastards, and guess what? I doubt that my conscience would be bothering me. Idiot. 80 mph (at least) passing me on twisty a two-lane road on the right because there was someone coming in the left lane. I was doing 50 - which is the speed limit. Moron didn’t have a helmet on either, which fits the ‘image’, I am sure the guy was projecting.
OK, enough diatribe concerning my recent heart-stopping adventure.
When I was a teenager (meaning the time before I grew some brain cells), I bought the Rousseauian argument of the Noble Savage. So I joined a commune in 1973. We would all live together in peace and prosperity, sharing equally in the delights of life!
Oh yeah, that worked well. It was an ‘open commune’ meaning any dead beat could flop on a couch (or in your bed if you weren’t home, and would even try if you WERE home). They were not required to contribute a nickel but expected to be fed (they would not COOK of course) and laundered for contributing erudite conversation during the Salon evenings. I mean they were THINKERS, folks! That was their contribution.
When I realized I was ‘Buster’ (the horse on Animal Farm? Haven’t read it? Read it.) I liked clean bathrooms, so it was decided that I should clean them! So much for ’share and share alike’. I also made a salary (I worked for the ‘man’ and was denigrated for my degree in mathematics - Liberal Arts was ‘where it is’)… But you can bet my salary got shared and shared alike.
I got out of that hellhole, but it took me about 3 months to wise up. After my cash infusion dried up it lasted another month and then everyone sort of went away. I am sure that it was all ‘my fault’.
Well anyway, more and more, I see little difference between those dead-beat commune types (nearly all of them) and pseudo-Libertarians, oh yeah, and those moronic Anarchists, lead by the Noble Savage himself: Murray Bookchin. In any society there are obligations, even if personal freedom is key. There are those that really do need help, and we should be responsive to it.
Perhaps I will stop calling myself a Libertarian after all. Now I am a member of the Libertarian/Conservative party.
Sorry folks, but I had a bad case of the Attitudes.
BTW: I like motorcycles too. But we do have an obligation to others on the roads. We should always assume we are invisible, and we should take responsibility for our own safety.
No, No! While hackneyed, here’s a couple nominations for my ‘new’ party:
“No free lunch”.
Platform:
“If you dance to the music, you gotta pay to the piper”
“No work? No eat.”
I have become more and more of a hard-ass, I am told my my ‘liberal’ friends. Tough. They never saw a column of numbers that they could add up. Economics, many of them say is ‘voodoo’. (They are only partly right.) Sigh… What do they think happens? That you just walk outside and shake the money tree??
Bozos. Bozos one and all. I am shed of it all. I’m moving up in the mountains with my Brave, my Dogs and my shotgun(s). oh yeah, and my Braun coffee-maker. OK, also my generator, for which I’m going to need gasoline… Well, maybe I’ll stay here. BUT I AM SHED OF THEM!!!. Stupid moronic liberals.
And pseudo-Libertarians. Which are just Conservatives that can’t do math.
ROFL!! Love this take. Wonder how often Nadar’s going to run?
LOL Witty…well at least we won’t have options to cloud our disicion making process.
Two choices: you like Zombie-slayer blog? or Not?
I like it a lot, he makes me laugh. thank you.
Hey Zombieslayer? Do you remember this?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unmercibly&defid=1401728
heh.
-r
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Well, they say you shouldn’t give young children more than two choices because it will only confuse them, and many grown people do behave like two-year-olds, so…
Seriously, my only concern with Nader is the vote-splitting issue. But that could happen with any “third party”, so he doesn’t deserve any blame for it.
Actually, according to a new poll I saw last night Barr and Nader siphon votes mostly from McCain, so they have MY full support!
Zombie man.. where are You????
Just missing you is all.
Please don’t say they’ve come for him! The voice of reason in the wilderness…
NOOOOOOOOO………
ZS come back to us!
Obama was giving a very long unsure speech yesterday on CNN. It seems like media is on his side. I hate it when media take sides.
Seriously!! i hope you are fine man!! its very unlikely of you to be gone this long. Nways looking forward to you new post:-)
do a new post and come on over!
What do you mean I only get two choices? Are you insane? Can I even become a Lutheran at this late date? You realize I dont handle abrupt change easily.
ps…I have always suspected that my Bapitist Grandma might be a closet extremist though..thanks for confirming it.
Re: Wallflower’s motorcycle moron - I just found out yesterday that in Michigan if you’re in an accident with a motorcycle (and you’re in a car) that no matter if the accident was the motorcyclist’s fault, your insurance will be paying for the motorcyclist’s injuries. What a bunch of BS is that?!?