[Cincinatus' Wife]

When my mother was alive, she would tell me the story of a time when she was a new voter on the way to the polling booth with her father, my grandfather. As they walked, she described the candidates she liked (not all of them were Republicans) and he listened and then said, "I'm sure they are very nice people but when you vote, you vote for the machine." He was correct in teaching her that any vote otherwise is a vote for the opposition, not for that candidate. People should vote a straight ticket and if they have to hold their noses, the next time they should work to run someone they like better. It's in the numbers and the majority that you rule the roost.

[js1138]

...but when you vote, you vote for the machine...

Man that's scary. I'm willing to compromise, but not to vote for machines. I'm willing to vote for incrementalism, but not corruption. The day the Republicans have the kind of power the dems had for fourty years, and start using it the way the dems did, I'm outta here.

I really believe in term limits. Politicians should have to live in the world they make.