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[packbat]

Okay, as a liberal (and therefore interested) and a Republican (and therefore nearly powerless), a suggestion to the Democrats out there: can you all stop insulting each other, please? Obama and Clinton are very similar candidates!

Seriously. Go drink some tea, play Facebook Chess, write an eleven-hundred-word breakdown of McCain's total lack of a substantive energy policy - whatever. And whenever you feel tempted to complain about any of your allies, consider this: my party gave me two warmongers and a theocrat as the only viable candidates. You guys got off frelling lucky.

That's all.

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

[M]y party gave me two warmongers and a theocrat as the only viable candidates.

So... why are you a Republican, again? I keep getting confused on that point.

[peri-renna.livejournal.com]

One: It's supposed to be easier to change an organization from the inside than from the outside. As long as the U.S. is running on a two-party system, it should be two good parties - two groups which can honestly say, "We want the same things - all we disagree on is methods".

Two: The Democratic Party platform is not some flawless jewel passed down from the heavens. It needs outside scrutiny as much as any other.

Three: The modern Republican Party is not the true Republican Party (http://ginmar.livejournal.com/461572.html), any more than modern America is the true America of which I am proud. I want to change that.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

One: Granted.

Two: Granted, but their ideals are closer to your own. Also, see One.

Three: How is that relevant? You are a member of the modern Republican party, not the old one. Modern politics are modern.

[peri-renna.livejournal.com]

Granted on all points. Nevertheless, I would prefer to try the experiment.

(Besides, I will not merely be voting in the Presidental election - I will have the opportunity to support reasonable candidates in primaries as well.)

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Well, sure. But it seems that you are more involved than merely experimenting.

[That's a good point, actually.]