Friday, November 05, 2004
I voted about 2 wks b-4 the election, my wife the day of. Both of us for Kerry or maybe more accurately 'anybody but Bush'.
I never truly warmed up to the idea of Kerry, & maybe 1 reason is, I never heard what he was planning to do differntly in Iraq. Different from Skippy. Been reading an article about his major speech writer, & how K. wouldn't stay with the script, went into long windy extensions of the main idea, etc.
At 1st, I couldn't grasp how people all over the country could vote for Goat-Boy. They liked what they'd been getting? astronomical National debt, an unprovoked war, their Social Security about to get plundered, then I realized they didn't really like Kerry for one thing, & all they had to go on when they entered the voting booth was a skimpy voters' guide they'd just been handed as they left church 2 days ago. You had to suppose that despite all the ads, they really hadn't given the election much thought. After all, there's a whole lotta work goes into putting that brain in gear, etc.
No, I finally reminded myself, they weren't voting for what they had been getting, because they weren't real sure what that was. All they knew was their prescription was mighty high lately, and gas for the old pickup was getting ridiculous. So, their reasoning went, I don't like Kerry much, Bush seems like a good family man, against gay marriage & partial-birth abortion (which is a big problem out here in the Kansas prairie) & he says he cut our taxes. Then Sunday the preacher said gay marriage would be the end of the world, so it was pretty easy to decide.
I never truly warmed up to the idea of Kerry, & maybe 1 reason is, I never heard what he was planning to do differntly in Iraq. Different from Skippy. Been reading an article about his major speech writer, & how K. wouldn't stay with the script, went into long windy extensions of the main idea, etc.
At 1st, I couldn't grasp how people all over the country could vote for Goat-Boy. They liked what they'd been getting? astronomical National debt, an unprovoked war, their Social Security about to get plundered, then I realized they didn't really like Kerry for one thing, & all they had to go on when they entered the voting booth was a skimpy voters' guide they'd just been handed as they left church 2 days ago. You had to suppose that despite all the ads, they really hadn't given the election much thought. After all, there's a whole lotta work goes into putting that brain in gear, etc.
No, I finally reminded myself, they weren't voting for what they had been getting, because they weren't real sure what that was. All they knew was their prescription was mighty high lately, and gas for the old pickup was getting ridiculous. So, their reasoning went, I don't like Kerry much, Bush seems like a good family man, against gay marriage & partial-birth abortion (which is a big problem out here in the Kansas prairie) & he says he cut our taxes. Then Sunday the preacher said gay marriage would be the end of the world, so it was pretty easy to decide.
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