Well I did it.
I gave money to Sarah Palin's legal defense fund.

Why? I saw another Minitru hit job on her, this one about another bullshit ethics complaint over that fund.

It's funny, people fall all over themselves saying she's not worth their time and yet, they surely do spend lots of time attacking.

The only thing I'm afraid of is that in my life, I've voted FOR a politician maybe 4 times and I could see myself voting FOR her.

I voted FOR Mario Cuomo. My excuse? That was back when I actually sorta trusted the media to not lie. Yeah, I was young and stupid.

I also voted For Moynihan. That one might have been okay. I've heard mixed things about him, but he did two things I have to respect, he coined the phrase, "Defining deviancy down", which pissed off the left then just as much as now, and he punched Kit Bond on the floor of the Senate. Too bad it wasn't Kennedy, but punching any Senator is a good thing most of the time.

I also voted FOR  Ronnie Raygun. That one I'm pretty proud of. Too bad he wasn't a Democrat, I could have voted for him twice! (badum-chee!)

I also voted FOR John McCain in the 2000 primary. Man was that stupid.

I'm still not sure I voted FOR Bush either or both times. I was definitely voting AGAINST the Gorebot and then John Effin Kerry (the worst presidential candidate, until the last election, in my lifetime. I've spent much of my adult life voting AGAINST Democrats, so that's the default. But.... I hated Bush's domestic agenda and only liked his foreign policy in regards to Iraq, Afghanistan and NoKo, he sucked up to China, kissed Putin's ass and was absolutely pitiful in how he dealt with the oil ticks and, well, he wasn't always so stalwartly against terrorism against Israel. If 9/11 hadn't happened, he would have been a one-termer and we would be in the second term of President Hillary. Funny how things work out.

So in other words, I'm at probably 50% in voting FOR.
Another Heinlein quote
 If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that a truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires.


I read that quote when I was pretty young, I had probably only voted once or twice, and that's generally been my voting stragety.

I've found that voting AGAINST is a much better voting stragety, the difference between "bad" and "worse" is always much more stark than the difference between "good" and "better".

Edited for spelling and again because I always put the % on the wrong side of the number. .

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